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Meaningful Climate Action Requires Taking Africa’s Needs Seriously

ClimateWorld NewsMeaningful Climate Action Requires Taking Africa’s Needs Seriously

PilotnewsNovember 16, 2021

By Michelle Gavin, Guest columnist and blogger As the world debates the successes, failures, and omissions of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, one inescapable conclusion is that Africa’s needs should be elevated on the global climate agenda. African leaders went into the conference with a clear agenda about the urgency of support for adaptation, the centrality of expanding access to power for Africans, and the overall need for partnering with African states on equal footing...

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#EndSARS:Panel Orders Police to Produce rtd SP Monday Christopher

Human Rights & FreedomLaw & Justice#EndSARS:Panel Orders Police to Produce rtd SP Monday Christopher

PilotnewsNovember 12, 2021

ABUJA — the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations on Friday, ordered that the police produce rtd SP Monday Christopher to appear before it to answer to the alleged disappearance of Lukman Suleiman. The panel is investigating by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force. The 11-member panel which is chaired by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Suleiman Galadima, gave this order at the hearing...

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Anambra Election, a Call For INEC to Do More, Says CSO Coalition

Anambra ElectionsAnambra Election, a Call For INEC to Do More, Says CSO Coalition

PilotnewsNovember 12, 2021

ABUJA — Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of over 70 organisations said the just concluded Anambra governorship election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) needed to do more in election management. Convener of the Situation Room, Ene Obi said this while reading the document co-signed by her, co-conveners Asmaú Joda and James Ugochukwu at a news conference in Abuja. Obi said that Situation Room sent observers to monitor the Anambra election and...

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FG, IFAD-VCDP to Give $1m Grant to Farmers in 9 States

AgricultureNigeriaFG, IFAD-VCDP to Give $1m Grant to Farmers in 9 States

PilotnewsNovember 11, 2021

MINNA — The Federal Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) on Thursday said that the intervention would support vulnerable farmers affected by insecurity and flood with a 1million dollars grant. Dr. Mathew Ahmed, the Niger Programme Coordinator, IFAD-VCDP, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna. He said that the intervention would support farmers in the nine VCDP participating states....

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Cricket: Team Nigeria Ready for T20 World Cup Qualifiers, Departs Friday, Coach Says

SportsCricket: Team Nigeria Ready for T20 World Cup Qualifiers, Departs Friday, Coach Says

PilotnewsNovember 11, 2021

ABUJA — Nigeria’s senior male cricket team says it is optimistic ahead of the T20 World Cup Africa Qualifiers beginning on Wednesday in Rwanda. The team is also expected to depart the shores of the country for Kigali on Friday via RwandAir Airlines to continue its preparations ahead of the event. Asanka Gurusinha, coach of the team told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the team was hopeful and ready for the...

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Diabetes Problem Makes Africa More Vulernable to COVID-19 Death, Says WHO

AfricaHealthDiabetes Problem Makes Africa More Vulernable to COVID-19 Death, Says WHO

PilotnewsNovember 11, 2021

NAIROBI — Death rates from COVID-19 infections were much higher in patients with diabetes in Africa, where the number of people with diabetes is growing rapidly, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. A WHO analysis of data from 13 African countries found a 10.2 per cent case fatality rate in COVID-19 patients with diabetes, compared with 2.5 per cent for COVID-19 patients overall. “COVID-19 is delivering a clear message, fighting the diabetes epidemic in...

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Bianca Ojukwu Thanks Anambra People for Keeping Faith With APGA, Congratulates Soludo

Anambra ElectionsSoutheastBianca Ojukwu Thanks Anambra People for Keeping Faith With APGA, Congratulates Soludo

PilotnewsNovember 10, 2021

AWKA — Wife of late Biafra leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has thanked Anambra people for keeping faith with her husband’s legacy by giving the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) a landmark victory in the state. Mrs. Ojukwu, who had on the eve of the governorship election invoked the spirit of her husband to lead APGA into the electoral battlefield, expressed satisfaction not only with the conduct of the elections but with the fact that...

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Uthoko Na Eze Achalla VI, Igwe Ositadinma Sunny Nwokedi congratulates Chukwuma Soludo, lauds INEC

Local GovernmentNewsNigeriaUthoko Na Eze Achalla VI, Igwe Ositadinma Sunny Nwokedi congratulates Chukwuma Soludo, lauds INEC

PilotnewsNovember 10, 2021

“I congratulate you on your electoral victory and pray for the success of your aspiration for the goodness of Anambra State and Ndi Igbo” His Majesty, Igwe Ositadinma Sunny Nwokedi, Eze Oranyelu, Uthoko VI of Achalla, Anambra State, has congratulated the Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, for his landslide victory of the Anambra governorship election.   The Independent National Electoral...

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FG, Firm Explore National Housing Bond to Tackle Housing Financing

Housing & DevelopmentFG, Firm Explore National Housing Bond to Tackle Housing Financing

PilotnewsNovember 9, 2021

ABUJA — The Federal Government is collaborating with Signature Advisory Limited, a real estate company, to explore the benefits of National Housing Bond to tackle the challenges of funding in housing financing in the country. The plan to explore the National Housing Bond was unfolded on Tuesday in Abuja when the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing (FMWH) and the Signature Advisory co-hosted the Housing Investment Forum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...

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Collapsed Ikoyi Building: 29 Families Submit DNA Samples for Bodies Identification — LASG

Accidents and SafetyHousing & DevelopmentCollapsed Ikoyi Building: 29 Families Submit DNA Samples for Bodies Identification — LASG

PilotnewsNovember 9, 2021

LAGOS — The Lagos State Government says 29 families have submitted samples for DNA to identify bodies evacuated from the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, said in a statement on Monday that the identification of bodies had continued at the IDH, Yaba, Lagos Mainland. Omotoso said that a committee to supervise the identification and release of the bodies had been set up and comprised of senior...

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