Court Fines Civil Servant N750,000 for Taking Over Ex-lover’s Property

Law & JusticeNewsPeopleCourt Fines Civil Servant N750,000 for Taking Over Ex-lover’s Property

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

A High Court in Igbosere, Lagos, on Friday ordered Ms Olaide Ibraheem, a civil servant to pay N750,000 as fine for forcibly taking over the property of her ”lover”, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyitolu, . Ibraheem, was arraigned on May 22, 2017, on three counts of forgery, forcible entry and criminal damage to the property, located at No. 1, Baba Yusuf Close, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, belonging to Oke-Osanyitolu, the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency...

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Macron Welcomes Release of French Aid Worker Held Hostage in Mali for 4 years

NewsWest AfricaMacron Welcomes Release of French Aid Worker Held Hostage in Mali for 4 years

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday welcomed the release and soon-to-return to France of a humanitarian aid worker who was kidnapped and held in captivity by militants in Mali for almost four years. Sophie Petronin was abducted by a group of armed militants in December 2016 in the northeastern Malian city of Gao. She spent 1,381 days in extremists’ custody. Petronin has been known as the last French hostage in the world. “I just exchanged...

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Customs Generates N13.11bn From Onne Sea Port in September – Controller

EconomyNewsNigeriaCustoms Generates N13.11bn From Onne Sea Port in September – Controller

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

The Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command, Onne Port, Rivers, says it generated over N13.11 billion in September. This is contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Ifeoma Ojekwu on Friday. The Controller of the command, Comptroller Auwal Mohammed, is quoted to have described the figure as the highest in 37 years of custom’s operations in the port. Mohammed stated that the command generated the revenue by...

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Harris and Pence Dodge Tough Questions in VP Debate – Experts React

ColumnsPoliticsUnited StatesHarris and Pence Dodge Tough Questions in VP Debate – Experts React

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

Vice presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Mike Pence sat far apart and separated by plexiglass for the only 2020 vice presidential debate, held in Utah on Oct. 7. Their exchanges were more civil than the presidential debate a week earlier, but Pence – and Harris to a lesser degree – avoided tough questions from USA Today’s Susan Page about the Supreme Court, COVID-19 response, succession and the peaceful transfer of power. Our experts were each...

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Senegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19

ColumnsCoronavirusReligionWest AfricaSenegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19

PilotnewsOctober 8, 2020

Senegal is a major center of West African Islam, and its imams, mullah, and brotherhoods are influential across the Sahel. The holy city of Touba, 120 miles east of the Senegalese capital of Dakar, is the site of a major, annual pilgrimage called the Magal, which is now underway. While no estimates are yet available as to the number of participants this year, in past years there have been as many as five million. The pilgrimage...

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President Buhari’s Full Speech of 2021 Budget Presentation at The National Assembly

EconomyNewsNigeriaPresident Buhari’s Full Speech of 2021 Budget Presentation at The National Assembly

PilotnewsOctober 8, 2020

Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience  Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja  Thursday, 8th October 2020 PROTOCOLS It is with pleasure that I present the 2021 Federal Budget Proposals to this Joint Session of the National Assembly. Distinguished and Honourable Leaders, and Members of the National Assembly, at this juncture, I wish to commend your tremendous efforts in approving the revision...

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Drug Dealers Burnt NDLEA Official to Death, Injury One in Hong

Crime & SecurityNewsDrug Dealers Burnt NDLEA Official to Death, Injury One in Hong

PilotnewsOctober 8, 2020

An official of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA with the Adamawa State Command Mr Samuel Abba Birma known as Mbakwe has been killed while another colleague was seriously injured by a mob suspected to be hard drug dealers in Hong. The Police Public Relations Officer PPRO, Adamawa State Command Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje who confirmed the incident, said investigation has commenced to identify and apprehend those behind the act....

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NHRC Commends I-G on FSARS Ban

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaNHRC Commends I-G on FSARS Ban

PilotnewsOctober 6, 2020

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) In Tuesday commended the Inspector-General of Police (I-GP), Mohammed Adamu for banning the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS). Mr Tony Ojukwu, the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, gave the commendation in Abuja,  while reacting to the recent ban on SARS and other special teams of the Nigerian Police from routine patrol duties ”His order is in line with the Commission’s recommendations following a report on the Presidential Investigation Panel...

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ECOWAS lifts Sanctions Imposed on Mali After Military Coup

NewsWest AfricaECOWAS lifts Sanctions Imposed on Mali After Military Coup

PilotnewsOctober 6, 2020

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday lifted the sanctions imposed on Mali in the wake of an August 18, 2020, military coup, citing Mali’s “notable advances towards constitutional normalisation” as the reason for the relaxation of the sanctions. The regional bloc announced the lifting of the sanctions in a statement by Chairman of ECOWAS Authority and President of Ghana, Nana Kuffo Addo. The lifting of the sanctions comes two days after...

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Zamfara Govt Begins Own Gold Reserve

InvestingNewsNigeriaZamfara Govt Begins Own Gold Reserve

PilotnewsOctober 6, 2020

Zamfara government says it has started its gold reserve to reduce dependence on federal allocations. The state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabiu Garba, told journalists in Gusau on Tuesday that, although, there was a federal government ban on mining activities in the country, “the state government was able to purchase the commodity from licensed miners. “At the moment, we have a pure gold reserve of over 30 kilos and as time goes by, we will...

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