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“We have written several letters to the Commissioner of Physical Planning and Urban Development on the issue of the over 3,000 illegal immigrants occupying the cleared site for the project. Bridgeway Global Project Ltd, the developer handling the relocation of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Village from its present location in Ikeja to Gatankowa area in Agbado-Okiodo LCDA, has called ...

  “All over the world, you pay for the energy you consumed. The only obligation government has is to provide the enabling environment for it to be made available,” Omo-Agege said. PEGASUS REPORTERS The Senate Deputy President Ovie, Omo-Agege, said, Saturday that the Federal Government was committed to putting an end to estimated billing syndrome in the nation’s power sector. ...

  The ICPC boss lamented the duplication of projects such as the constituency projects of lawmakers and noted that funding for such projects was usually released without any mechanism for monitoring and evaluation and reconciliation of the funding. PEGASUS REPORTERS The federal government is not thinking of cutting wages, rather mulling salary harmonisation which will rather deliver increased pay to ...

“All the vigilantes must carry weapons that are licensed so that anytime there is external aggression, they must be able to rise up to defend themselves.”   PEGASUS REPORTERS As insecurity and federal government security agencies seem unable to counter Nigeria’s mounting security problems, Governor Ortom of Benue State has approved the use of guns for self-defence in the state. ...

  “For instance, the query highlighted unremitted deduction to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to include N3,667,750,470. $148,845,745.04, Euro 4,891,449.50 and £252,682.14.” PEGASUS REPORTERS The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, has been accused of corruption and abuse of office, in what could potentially be the latest scandal to rock the NPA. Investigation shows how spending ...

  “Sadly it is those Nigerians that Nigeria has given more that are plotting to destroy it.” PEGASUS REPORTERS If Nigeria were a human being it would probably be on suicide watch or maybe have committed suicide by now. What with almost every of its citizens hissing, cursing, abusing and deriding it. With words like ‘Nigeria is a failed nation’, ...

  “Are you saying we can not move against an incompetent government whose security apparatus has collapsed?” The presiding Bishop of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, in Ibadan, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has admitted praying that God removes President Muhammadu Buhari. The cleric who was speaking at his church’s vigil at the weekend said Buhari has failed woefully. like ...

  Rev. Father Mbaka has been having trouble with Aso Rock since he spoke out that the president should resign for incompetence in handling the nation’s security problems. PEGASUS REPORTERS Adoration faithful this afternoon stormed Catholic Bishop’s court over the missing of Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka chanting displeasure at government as well. The members numbering hundreds marched from Adoration Ground ...

  Wake-keep and funeral Service are to be held next week Wednesday, 12th May 2021 and Thursday, 13th May 2021, respectively, in his home town, Umuodia, Mpam, Ekwereazu, Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. By Comrade AWA Bamiji As the immediate past Country and West African Director of Ford Foundation and Founder of Cleen Foundation, Comrade Innocent Chukwuma ...

The bottom line of all these narrations is that inclusiveness and justice are what is lacking in our contemporary democratic traditions. Injustice, Nepotism, ethnicity, discrimination, marginalisation, religious bigotry and extremism are the building bricks of government architecture at all levels in Nigeria. During the First Republic, the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna Sokoto has a tradition of ...