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Oronsaye Report: Billions Of Naira Saved As FG Begins Implementation Processes

  “The committee recommended that the Nigerian Communications Commission, National Broadcasting Commission and Nigerian Postal Service be merged into one entity known as the Communications Regulatory Authority of Nigeria. This could save the government N149.2bn” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 29, 2022 The federal government is putting in the process a mechanism for the implementation of the Oronsaye Committee Reports ...

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ASUU STRIKE: COPSUN Hits Back At ASUU’s Vituperations On Arise TV

  COPSUN berated ASUU and its president for what it termed: “loquacious vituperations and obsolete, Stalinist centralised, unpopular approach to the issue of funding of tertiary education in a modern globalised world, as archaic, antiquated and impractical anywhere in the world” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 28, 2022 The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities, COPSUN, has responded to the ...

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FREED: DSS Releases 80-Year-old Mama Biafra After Three Months In Detention

  “She was arrested on the 18th day of May 2022 outside the court premises, after a hearing on Nnamdi Kanu case was concluded on that day in Abuja” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 29, 2022 Nigeria’s Director of State Service (DSS) has released Madam Ukamaka Ejezie, popularly known as Mama Biafra, after three months in detention according to an ...

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ECONOMY: ICT Sector Tops Nigeria’s GDP In Q2 – Dr Femi Adeluyi

  “The diligent implementation of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) for a Digital Nigeria, stakeholder engagement and creation of an enabling environment have all played an important role in this achievement” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 28, 2022 The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) latest release indicated that Information and Communication Technology (ICT), sector had contributed 18.44 ...

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CRACKDOWN ON ISLAM: Former Imam Of Makkah’s Masjid Al-Haram Jailed For 10 Years

  “The sentencing of the Grand Mosque’s Imam Saleh Al Talib to 10 years for criticizing social changes and the sentencing of women activist Salma Alshehab to 34 years for calling for real social reforms is a stark irony that tells us that MbS’s oppression threatens every group,” said Alaoudh. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 28, 2022 A Saudi court ...

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2023: Yoruba Youths Accuse Ayo Adebanjo Of Double-Dealing: Working For Atiku, While Campaigning For Obi

  The statement said; “But today, the minority Afenifere has suddenly shifted its self-seeking support to its beloved son, Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), whose political party scored only 2, 729 votes in Osun 2022, less than 1% in a situation where the two major political parties in Nigeria, APC and PDP got 375,027 ...

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“We Won’t Paint Aisami’s Killing In Religious Colours”, – JNI

   “JNI received with utmost shock the reported assassination of Aisami and theft of his car. To say the least, the Sheikh’s murder was dastardly, reprehensible and stands condemned, given the kind-hearted nature of the Sheikh, who, in his own volition, offered the assailants a ride in the same car” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 25, 2022 The Muslim religious ...

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Strike: Federal Government Dares ASUU With Registering CONUA

  Asked if he was not burdened that the recognition of CONUA will affect the struggle by ASUU, he retorted: “If registering them will affect our demands, they will soon find out that we are all in the bad state of educational neglect together” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 24, 2022 The Federal government has referred an application from a ...

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ECONOMY: Commercial Motorcyclists (Okada) Plead With Government On Proposed Nationwide Ban

  “Truly, if the government goes on to ban commercial motorcycles, there will be nothing to sustain millions of commercial motorcycle riders in the country as this is our only means of livelihood and survival… That is why we are begging the Federal Government to rescind the idea of banning commercial motorcycles” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 23, 2022 Some ...

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ASUU Factional Body, CONUA Denounces Strike Action; Tasks FG To Register It

  “In fact, before the incident, which caused the students to be asked to vacate the campus, most of our members had concluded their lectures. Since it wasn’t our members who declared a strike, lumping us together with those who are on strike is therefore patently unfair,” it said. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 22, 2022 The Congress of Nigerian ...

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