Devastations of Moral Bankruptcy: Thanks General Milley, for Saving the World

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionDevastations of Moral Bankruptcy: Thanks General Milley, for Saving the World

PilotnewsSeptember 18, 2021

Fifty States, with more than three-hundred million people, and yet not enough of us to seal the airflow in this punctured Zeplin. The country is reeling; she is unable to duck from the punch she had herself thrown. The end could be near…imminent, that is…at least if the speed and trajectory the country is traveling stayed the same. Even the one who convinced her to wind up and throw that punch was aware that if...

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OPINION: Sit-at-Home Order: How Much Longer Can IPOB Directives Go Uncontested?

ColumnsNational SecurityOpinionPoliticsOPINION: Sit-at-Home Order: How Much Longer Can IPOB Directives Go Uncontested?

PilotnewsSeptember 17, 2021

There is now a generation of Igbo youths who have never experienced sound political leadership and the same group of youths is faced with disappearing opportunities amidst suffocating economic realities. The Indigenous People of Biafra – IPOB, led by Nnamdi Kanu who was arrested in Kenya and extradited to Nigeria to face alleged sundry charges bordering on terrorism, has apparently taken their agitation to the next level, as latest developments would suggest. Vocal on the...

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UN Women’s Feminist Roadmap Tackles Triple Crises of Jobs, Care, Climate

Gender & EquityHealthUnited NationsUN Women’s Feminist Roadmap Tackles Triple Crises of Jobs, Care, Climate

PilotnewsSeptember 16, 2021

NEW YORK —UN Women on Thursday published a flagship feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation, which aims to learn the lessons of the past and seize the opportunity to handle COVID-related crises better. The UN’s gender equality and empowerment organisation stated this in a report on “UN Women’s Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice’’. The report draws on the latest data, analysis and input from more than 100 global experts...

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Troops Arrest Police Sergeant With 370 Rounds of Ammunition in Plateau

Crime & SecurityPoliceTroops Arrest Police Sergeant With 370 Rounds of Ammunition in Plateau

PilotnewsSeptember 16, 2021

JOS — Troops of the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) have arrested a Police Sergeant, Azi Jonathan, 30, with 370 rounds of ammunition in Plateau. Maj. Ishaku Takwa, its Media Officer disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos. The statement explained that the suspect was arrested on Thursday afternoon at its checkpoint in the Werreng community of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state. The media officer in the statement...

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Nigeria Basketball League: Rivers Hoopers Win Atlantic Conference in Akure

SportsNigeria Basketball League: Rivers Hoopers Win Atlantic Conference in Akure

PilotnewsSeptember 16, 2021

AKURE — Rivers Hoopers Basketball Club of Port Harcourt have been declared winners of the 2021 Nigeria Basketball league(Atlantic conference). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Port Harcourt-based team finished top with sixteen points after winning all eight games. Two venues for the competition are; Abuja and Akure with 22 teams and 11 each for the cities. The teams that participated in the Atlantic conference in Akure included; Winners, Rivers Hoopers, Kwara Falcons, Police Baton,...

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DPR Seals 11 Illegal Gas Plants, 2 Petrol Stations in Abuja

Crime & SecurityOil & GasDPR Seals 11 Illegal Gas Plants, 2 Petrol Stations in Abuja

PilotnewsSeptember 16, 2021

ABUJA — The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), in Abuja, on Thursday, sealed 11 illegal gas plants and two filling stations over sharp practices. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) — also known as cooking gas — plants and the filling stations visited are located in Karimo, Gwagwa, Games Village Kuje, and Gwagwalada. The LPG operators were said to be operating illegally, while the two petrol stations were sealed...

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OPINION: The Quest for Freedom; Transgender in Nigeria

ColumnsLifestyleOpinionOPINION: The Quest for Freedom; Transgender in Nigeria

PilotnewsSeptember 16, 2021

Transgender people are people who have a gender identity different from their sex.   The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E. Adeboye has publicly declared his stand on transgenderism. He did this in his Facebook post where he based his opinion on biblical scriptures citing different passages. He asserted that God is not an author of confusion but the God of distinction and that he created humans male and female....

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Turn On the Stove, My Lover —Ruminating an Exploration from “My Ear Lobes Through the Mainland”

Fiction & PoetryLifestyleTurn On the Stove, My Lover —Ruminating an Exploration from “My Ear Lobes Through the Mainland”

PilotnewsSeptember 14, 2021

Hey babe, Where are you? I’m sitting on the moon Please cut me some slice of the sky, I’m so tired, I can’t come up this hour. The sky is cold; you need a hot meal. Oh, please make me one. You need to turn on the stove for me to cook. But I’m so tired. You don’t seem hungry. Do you? Burr… Okay. How do I do that? Start from the lobes of my...

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OPINION: Reflecting on Africa’s Last Decade

AfricaColumnsOpinionPoliticsOPINION: Reflecting on Africa’s Last Decade

PilotnewsSeptember 13, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   As of today, I am retiring from the Council on Foreign Relations, where I have held the Ralph Bunche Chair for Africa Policy Studies since 2009. I am delighted that my successor is Michelle Gavin, former senior director for Africa at the National Security Council, former ambassador to Botswana, and now a senior fellow at the Council, based in New York. She has been a close professional colleague,...

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POEM: The Digital Shrine

Fiction & PoetryPOEM: The Digital Shrine

PilotnewsSeptember 13, 2021

The Digital Shrine: A Poem The digital shrine has an altar where the worshipping and slaughtering of humans take turns. It is sacred today and bloody tomorrow as humans are reverenced today and blotted out the next. Like a cow’s plight, when you reach the maturity of mistakes, the ardent worshippers will ardently draw up their swords to slaughter at a lick. When you pick salt over sugar against their law, you are either hanged...

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