COVID-19: National Sports Festival Postponed to 2021

EntertainmentNewsNigeriaSportsCOVID-19: National Sports Festival Postponed to 2021

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 says the 2020 National Sports Festival scheduled to hold in Edo has been postponed to 2021. At a briefing on Monday in Abuja, PTF Chairman and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),  Mr Boss Mustapha, said the postponement was to allow proper measures to be put in place. Mustapha said that with more than 12,000 participants expected at the event, there was a need for the...

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Zabarmari Killings: Buhari Dispatches Delegation, Vows End to Terrorism

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaZabarmari Killings: Buhari Dispatches Delegation, Vows End to Terrorism

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday dispatched a high powered government delegation to Maiduguri to deliver a message of condolence and solidarity with the government and people of the state over the killing of 43 farm workers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 43 farmers were murdered while unspecified numbers of others were unaccounted for when Boko Haram insurgents attacked rice fields at Koshebe village, near Zabarmari, on Friday. NAN gathered that nine...

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AEDC Blames Disruption in Power Supply On Vandals

PowerAEDC Blames Disruption in Power Supply On Vandals

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), has blamed the disruption of power supply in parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on vandals. Mr Oyebode Fadipe, AEDC General Manager, Corporate Communications said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Fadipe listed some of the affected areas to include Kaura District, Galadimawa, Lokogoma, Suncity, Moccido Housing Estate, Games Village and Eyes Centre Hospital, “Others include the National Stadium, Feeds Milipat Filling Station, part of Indoor...

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#EndSARS: Police Brutally Killed My 24 years- old Son, ‘’ I Paid Police N5,000 Bail-Fee’’ Victims Tells Adamawa Judicial Panel

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeria#EndSARS: Police Brutally Killed My 24 years- old Son, ‘’ I Paid Police N5,000 Bail-Fee’’ Victims Tells Adamawa Judicial Panel

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz, Regional Correspondent As startling revelations continued to trail, a victim of police brutality, Mr. Nicks Kaino has told Adamawa  State Judicial Commission of Inquiry how police ‘ killed’  his son, Kane, aged 24 years, as another victim Yohanna Vandi accused the police of detaining him in a police cell with six others which caused  him to lose a contract of three hundred thousand naira (N300,000). In his submission, through a counsel,...

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NewsNigeriaFG to Roll Out Autogas Programme Dec. 1

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Dec.1, roll out the National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP) to deepen domestic usage of gas in the country. This is contained in a statement by Alhaji Garba Deen Muhammad, Special Adviser on Media to Minister of State for Petroleum Resources  Chief Timipre Sylva, in Abuja, on Sunday. He said the event would herald the formal dispensing of autogas (Compressed Natural Gas, CNG and Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG) products at two...

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25m Nigerians to Own 5m Solar Systems At N4,000 Monthly–Presidency

Housing & DevelopmentNewsNigeria25m Nigerians to Own 5m Solar Systems At N4,000 Monthly–Presidency

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

The Presidency said it would deliver 5 million solar systems to 25 million Nigerians previously not connected to the national grid though Solar Home Systems, under the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this on Sunday in Abuja. He said that the solar system would be provided at N4,000 monthly over a 3-year period. Akande was responding to inquiries...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaWe Need Executive Approval to Bear Arms -FRSC

PilotnewsNovember 30, 2020

Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has said that the corps would require the executive approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to bear arms. Oyeyemi, at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, said in the light of the recent attack, kidnap and killing of personnel of the corps across the country, the corps need to bear arms. “What does the law says? What does the act of the corps...

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How Hath the Mighty Fallen ―Dissecting the Mystery of the Trump’s Era

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionHow Hath the Mighty Fallen ―Dissecting the Mystery of the Trump’s Era

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2020

It is safe to say that even the great United States could fall prey to a snake oil salesman.  ―Don Okolo Well, the caption above isn’t exactly true. The United States is standing on the precarious edge of tipping over into a chasm of jagged rock tips. It is swaying dangerously, but hadn’t yet fallen over…at least, not yet. The next small wind could nudge it over. Believe me, it could come. And if it...

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I Didn’t Defect to APC Over Presidential Ambition- Umahi Reiterates

NewsNigeriaPoliticsI Didn’t Defect to APC Over Presidential Ambition- Umahi Reiterates

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2020

Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has reiterated that he did not defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest for presidency in 2023. Umahi made the declaration on Sunday during the first APC stakeholders meeting he was superintending over since his defection to the party. According to him, who dash monkey Banana;  I did not negotiate with the presidency or anyone to contest the position under the APC. “My next line of action after...

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PDP Calls For Investigation Into Saturday’s Attack on P/H Church

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPDP Calls For Investigation Into Saturday’s Attack on P/H Church

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2020

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a thorough investigation into Saturday’s explosion at the Christian Universal Church, Port Harcourt. The party made the call in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Sunday. It condemned the “dastardly attack” on the church, founded by Rev. Nlemanya Wike, the father of Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers. “The PDP is disturbed by the intentions of the attackers in detonating an...

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