Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extended the suspension of flights from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) from February 28 to March 10. The UAE aviation authorities made this known in the updated travel protocol posted on the website of the Emirates Airline, the flag carrier of the UAE, on Sunday afternoon. The update read, “In line with government directives, passenger services from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) to Dubai are temporarily suspended until 10 March 2021....
“Sir Damian Chibuzo Okolo possesses the moral and ethical bearings of a monk,” ―Don Okolo Esteemed Bureaucrats, especially the elected ones, are hard to find. If a nation were lucky…as in this case, any State in this haggard nation, she would, every once in a while, haul in the quintessential Statesman, whose pottery was sculpted out of porcelain. In other words, the man or woman, who is on the straight and arrow…the one, who would...
ABUJA — The Super Falcons are heading for Antalya to participate in the fifth edition of the Turkish Women’s Cup holding from Monday to Feb. 24, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said. Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, disclosed in a statement on Thursday that the Nigerian senior women football team were expected in the Turkish city on Monday. “It is the first run-out for the reigning African champions, who reached the Round of...
ABUJA — The Federal Government has prohibited the #Occupy Lekki Toll Gate protest scheduled for Saturday over intelligence report that it will be hijacked and used to destabilise the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this on Thursday in Abuja at a media briefing to address issues on the proposed protest. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some #EndSars protest proponents have given notice of their plan to...
ABUJA — The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) says it has intensified advocacy toward ending harmful traditional practices and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in all local government areas of the country. Harmful traditional practices are forms of violence committed against women and girls for so long that they are considered or presented by perpetrators as part of accepted cultural practice. The National President of FIDA, Rhoda Tyoden, told the News Agency of...
Addis Ababa — The African Union (AU) Commission on Wednesday emphasised a double burden on health systems across Africa due to a new Ebola outbreak and the still-raging Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The AU Commission, through the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has started discussions with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on how to support its response to the 12th Ebola outbreak declared by the DRC on Sunday in Butembo Area of...
By Goldie Njideka, Staff Writer NKPOR (Anambra) — Three men have been shot dead after two unidentified gunmen stormed the Nkpor town Civic Center, Eke Nkpor in Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra state and opened fire at persons gathered at the center today February 10. The West African Pilot News (WAP) gathered that some Nkpor indigenes had assembled at the Civic Center for the inauguration of the Nkpor Community task force. Shortly after the...
Chukuemeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of Education has called for the reform of education in the country with emphasis on the need for a modification of learning, pedagogy, and the curriculum. According to him, this is to enable the country to level up with the modern global practices in education and ensure qualitative instructional delivery. The minister indicated this at the opening of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Principals of Federal Unity Colleges (FUC) held...
The Senate, on Tuesday, read a request from President Muhammadu Buhari, for the red chamber to confirm the newly appointed service chiefs. The request was contained in a letter dated 27th January 2021, was read by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, during a plenary on Tuesday. According to a statement by the Senate President’s aide, Ezral Tabiowo, the letter from Buhari read, “In compliance with the provisions of Section 18(1) of the Armed Forces Act....
