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  “Well, when I became a lecturer, I promised myself I was not going to give in to the convention, so I decided to face my work. Of course, I did not deny the temptations, I was able to keep myself in a comfortable zone. But, that is not even my story” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 27, 2025 The ...

  “Faced with these realities, how would any responsible government have carried on spending $1 billion monthly on fuel subsidy and another $1.5 billion monthly defending the Naira and a further $300 million monthly subsidising electricity while servicing a total debt of almost $100 billion racked up by the previous administration with 92% of our revenue as at the end ...

  “As much as they want to, and are empowered by the constitution to, protest against national and social issues they feel strongly about, it would be great if they exercise the same rights to take advantage of the many programs designed especially for their benefit” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 1, 2024 The federal government, in its drive to ...

  “In Kano, we now have two emirs, a federal emir and a state emir, and the judiciary just added fuel to the kingship fire raging in the state through what Professor Auwalu Yadudu fittingly called a “strange and baffling” judicial pronouncement” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JUNE 23, 2024 In Saturday Tribune I thought over Nigeria’s problems and just got ...

  “The naira is also being rescued with subsidies after it drowned in the shark-infested waters of the global currency market in the aftermath of its “floating”— at the prompting of the IMF, of course. Is Tinubu finally growing some testicular fortitude against the racist, callous, anti-people bullies at the IMF? It’s too early to tell.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | ...

  “I can tell you that the Northern Nigeria is ideologically and conspicuously exposed and sharply divided into two social groups of the deprived ‘have nots of the Sardauna’s peasant farmers and herders versus ‘the opposite affluent North of the insatiably greedy Obasanjonian fat cats and coalition forces of looters and economic bandits.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 07, 2024 ...

  It therefore makes perfect sense for the NIMC to leverage the message of access to palliative cash transfers and other socio-economic benefits that will accrue from listing on the social register to deepen, and update, the national identity database. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 17, 2024 In April 2023, the Federal Government announced that Nigeria had secured an $800 ...

  “I gave the examples of my host in Lagos, Alhaji Musa Umar Yashi, of the defunct Bauchi State state liaison office in Victoria Island in Lagos and currently a Director in the Presidency, presently the Director of Humanitarian Service of the North-East Development Commission, whose House in Lagos, was a beehive of humanity and a rendezvous of all Nigerian ...

  “The question arises – if Nigeria spent $ 12 billion and hundreds of military lives to protect by proxy America’s lone African child, why would it locate its troops in an adjacent French-speaking country that was susceptible to a coup rather than a military ally and top trade partner that was no longer vulnerable to coups?” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...

  “Indeed SWOT can be described as one of the biggest intervention programmes that have significantly touched the lives of people in many ways. With the support of her husband, Nana was able to carry out numerous humanitarian and social activities in support of orphans and widows.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JULY 12, 2023 She was endowed with an insightful ...