EducationInfrastructureNewsStakeholders Rally Support For Bills Seeking to Establish FMC, Orthopaedic Hospital

PilotnewsMarch 11, 2021

ABUJA — Stakeholders in the health sector on Wednesday rally support for the establishment of Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Wase, Plateau, and Igboho in Oyo State. The stakeholders made the appeal at a public hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions in Abuja. Dr. Nimkong Ndam, the Plateau Commissioner for Health, said that the people of Southern Senatorial Zone of Plateau, particularly those living in remote villages, have difficulty in accessing...

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EFCC Arrests 10 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Port Harcourt

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsEFCC Arrests 10 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Port Harcourt

PilotnewsMarch 10, 2021

PORT HARCOURT — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday said it had arrested 10 suspected internet fraudsters in Port Harcourt. A spokesman for EFCC in Rivers, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement in Port Harcourt that the suspects defrauded their victims of undisclosed sums of money and properties. “The suspects were arrested at God City Estate in Rumualgu and No. 23, Sam Mba Close, off NTA Akparale Road, all in Port Harcourt....

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Anambra Lawmaker Urges Support For Police in Fighting Crime

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaAnambra Lawmaker Urges Support For Police in Fighting Crime

PilotnewsMarch 10, 2021

AWKA — A lawmaker in Anambra, Mr. Onyebuchi Offor, has appealed to well-meaning individuals and corporate organisations in the state to assist the police with logistics to fight crime Offor, representing Ekwusigo State Constituency in the state House of Assembly, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Wednesday. He said that many private and public property, including police stations, were destroyed in Anambra during the EndSARS...

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COVID-19: NCDC Reports 346 New Infections, 6 Additional Deaths

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: NCDC Reports 346 New Infections, 6 Additional Deaths

PilotnewsMarch 9, 2021

Abuja, March 10, 2021 (NAN) The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 346 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total number of infected people in Nigeria to 159,252. The NCDC gave the figures on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) also reports that six people died from COVID-19 related ailments in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,988 and the number of patients...

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OPINION: Ransom Payment in the Gulf of Guinea

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionOPINION: Ransom Payment in the Gulf of Guinea

PilotnewsMarch 9, 2021

According to the Nigerian army, a ransom of $300,000 was paid to pirates in the Gulf of Guinea to secure the release of the crew of a Chinese fishing boat. The party that paid the ransom is not reported. The most likely possibility is that it was the Chinese company that operated the fishing boat. The episode sheds some light of the murky operation of kidnapping and ransom payment in the Gulf of Guinea. The Chinese fishing boat...

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FC Nilayo Holds Rovers to a Goalless Draw in Calabar

EntertainmentSportsFC Nilayo Holds Rovers to a Goalless Draw in Calabar

PilotnewsMarch 7, 2021

CALABAR — FC Nilayo of Abeokuta on Saturday held Rovers FC of Calabar to a goalless draw in week four of the Nigerian National League (NNL) match played at the UJ Esuene Stadium. Both teams missed a couple of chances that could have been converted with the 23 minutes miss by FC Nilayo being the most glaring, forcing an impressive double save by the Rovers goalkeeper, Isa Ismaila. FC Nilayo continued to trouble the defence...

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Truck Kills Pedestrian in Onitsha

Accidents and SafetyNewsNigeriaTruck Kills Pedestrian in Onitsha

PilotnewsMarch 7, 2021

AWKA —  A middle-aged man has been confirmed dead in an accident involving a truck on Onitsha-Owerri highway in Onitsha, Anambra late on Saturday. Mr. Andrew Kumapayi, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Sunday. “The crash involved a Mark truck with registration number, JJJ660XB, driven by an unidentified person. “Eye-witness reports reaching us indicate that the crash was due...

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Gombe Consumers Owe Jos DisCo N2.2 Billion As Over 19,000 Households Get Meters — Spokesman

InfrastructurePowerGombe Consumers Owe Jos DisCo N2.2 Billion As Over 19,000 Households Get Meters — Spokesman

PilotnewsMarch 6, 2021

GOMBE — Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) says 19, 317 households have so far been metered in Gombe state, according to Dr. Adakole Elijah, JEDC’s Head of Corporate Communications. Elijah, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe, added that efforts were ongoing to meter more households, in line with the directive of the Federal Government as well as JEDC’s desire to end estimated billing of customers. He...

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FG Bridging Infrastructure Gaps in Military Formations- Mamora

InfrastructureMilitaryNigeriaFG Bridging Infrastructure Gaps in Military Formations- Mamora

PilotnewsMarch 6, 2021

LAGOS — Minister of State for Health Olorunnimbe Mamora says the Federal Government is taking measures aimed at bridging the infrastructure gaps in the Nation’s military formations. Mamora said this on Saturday at the inauguration and handing over of Jetty and Shoreline protection facilities at Underwater Warfare School, Ojo, Lagos State. The minister said that such intervention projects were necessary in order to respond to emerging trends and sophistication in modern warfare in addressing security...

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Sports commissioner Hails Umahi’s Pronouncement On State’s New Football Teams

EntertainmentNewsSportsSports commissioner Hails Umahi’s Pronouncement On State’s New Football Teams

PilotnewsMarch 6, 2021

ABAKALIKI — The Ebonyi Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports, Charles Akpuenika has hailed Gov. David Umahi’s pronouncement on the eventual formation of the state’s new football teams. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Umahi while declaring open the on-going state’s #EndSARS youth summit, announced that the process of forming both male and female teams would begin from the end of March 2021. Akpuenika in an interview with NAN on Saturday in Abakaliki,...

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