Ethiopian Refugees Suffer Appalling Conditions in Sudan, MSF Says

AfricaNational SecurityNewsEthiopian Refugees Suffer Appalling Conditions in Sudan, MSF Says

PilotnewsFebruary 19, 2021

CAPE TOWN —  More than 61,000 people have fled Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region and lived under appalling conditions in neighbouring Sudan, medical aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 refugees were currently scattered in and around the Hamdayet transit camp near the border without proper shelter and access to water, food, blankets, and sanitation, the group said. Some had been in Hamdayet for months, with new people arriving every day,...

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FG Ready to Strengthen Military Ties With Friendly Nations

Foreign PolicyNational SecurityNewsNigeriaFG Ready to Strengthen Military Ties With Friendly Nations

PilotnewsFebruary 19, 2021

ABUJA — The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to strengthening bilateral and multilateral ties with friendly countries to support the ongoing military operations across the country. A statement by Magashi’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mohammad Abdulkadri, said he made the remarks during a visit by the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Fahad Al-Taffaq, on Thursday in Abuja. He said that such cooperation would...

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Kagara Kidnapping: Government Says 42 People including 27 Students Are Missing

National SecurityNewsNigeriaKagara Kidnapping: Government Says 42 People including 27 Students Are Missing

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

Not less than 42 people, including 27 students, are yet to be found after gunmen attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State. The Niger State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Muhammad Idris, said this. He added that the whereabout of three teachers were as well unknown. According to Idris, 12 family members of the teachers were also kidnapped during the attack. He added that one student, whose identity is yet to be known, was...

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Kidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

NewsNigeriaOpinionKidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

by John Campbell On February 17, a gang of “gunmen” kidnapped more than forty students, teachers, and administrators from a secondary school in Niger State. At least one student was killed. Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has appealed for assistance from President Muhammadu Buhari, who has ordered all four service chiefs to go to Niger State to coordinate rescue operations. In December, “bandits” kidnapped some three hundred schoolboys from a school in Kankara, located in Katsina State. There have been several other mass kidnappings,...

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Police in Katsina State Guns Down Armed Bandit, Recovers Rifles, Ammunition

National SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice in Katsina State Guns Down Armed Bandit, Recovers Rifles, Ammunition

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

Katsina State Police command has gundown armed bandit and recovered one Ak 47 rifle with 17 rounds of 7.62 live ammunitions. According to Press statement by the Commissioner of Police in the state CP Sanusi Buba the bandit was shot during a gun duel  today Wednesday at Danmusa Town, in Danmusa LGA of the state. The statement read in part “today being 17/02/2021 at about 02:00hrs, DPO Danmusa Division and team responded to a distress...

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FG Appoints Haliru Nababa New CG NCoS –Spokesman

Crime & SecurityJobsNewsFG Appoints Haliru Nababa New CG NCoS –Spokesman

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA —  President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Haliru Nababa, as the new Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Mr. Francis Enobore, announced in a statement, on Thursday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nababa’s appointment is, however, subject to the Senate’s confirmation in line with the provisions of the New Act establishing the NCoS 2019. Enobore noted that Nababa had headed many...

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Kidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

LocalNewsNigeriaKidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

The Niger state government has shut down all boarding schools in four local government areas (LGAs). The affected LGAs are Rafi, Munya, Mariga and Shiroro. The closure of the schools follows the abduction of school children at the Government Science College (GSC), Kagara in the early hours of Wednesday. Governor Sani Bello of the state gave the order at a press conference, called for clam from parents and relatives of the abducted schoolchildren. He called...

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Actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Trademarks Her Name

EntertainmentNewsPeopleActress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Trademarks Her Name

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA — Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde on Wednesday announced that she has `trademarked’ her first name, Omotola. She disclosed this on her Instagram handle @realomosexy: “OMOTOLA-Trademarked. When a name, mostly a business name is trademarked, it means it has been registered under patent laws, which in Nigeria is done by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). It implies that no one, as stated in the copyright law, is allowed to trade with the name “Omotola” henceforth....

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NTDC Seeks NAN Partnership to Promote Tourism

NewsNigeriaTourismNTDC Seeks NAN Partnership to Promote Tourism

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA —  The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) on Wednesday solicited an enduring partnership with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to promote the growth of the tourism sector in Nigeria. Speaking when he paid a courtesy visit to the editorial management of NAN in Abuja, the Director-General of the NTDC, Mr. Folorunsho Coker, said that he needed to collaborate with NAN to drive the vision of the NTDC as laid out by the Federal...

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Shasha Market Violence: Humanitarian Affairs Minister Urges Nigerians to Learn to Coexist Peacefully

NewsNigeriaPeopleShasha Market Violence: Humanitarian Affairs Minister Urges Nigerians to Learn to Coexist Peacefully

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA —  Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has urged Nigerians to learn to coexist peacefully. In a statement on Thursday in Abuja, signed by the deputy director of information, Mrs. Rhoda Iliya, Farouq expressed sadness over the avoidable ethnic violence in Shasha Market in Ibadan, Oyo State. She sympathised with the victims and families of those affected by the crisis. ”In a community where different ethnic groups co-exist, ...

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