Louise Glück: Literature Nobel for American Lyric Poet a Healing Choice After Years of Controversy

Arts & CultureColumnsWorld NewsLouise Glück: Literature Nobel for American Lyric Poet a Healing Choice After Years of Controversy

PilotnewsOctober 10, 2020

Louise Glück is the first poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Tomas Tranströmer in 2011 and the first American to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. In their preference for the muddiness of everyday life over explicit engagement with their political and social issues, you can see a broad link between Glück and Tranströmer. On the surface, though, Morrison and Glück couldn’t appear to be more different. Morrison’s work lays bare both the lasting scars and...

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FG Set to Relax Conditions Attached to Mining Loan

BusinessNewsNigeriaFG Set to Relax Conditions Attached to Mining Loan

PilotnewsOctober 10, 2020

Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, says the ministry is relaxing conditions attached on mining intervention loan meant for miners. Adegbite told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja that the conditions would be relaxed for artisanal miners to enable them access the loan which was domiciled with the Bank of Industry (BOI) NAN recalls that the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) had signed a Memorandum of...

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Misconduct: Commission Dismisses 10 Senior Police Officers, Demotes 9 Others

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaMisconduct: Commission Dismisses 10 Senior Police Officers, Demotes 9 Others

PilotnewsOctober 10, 2020

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of 10 senior police officers and demotion of nine others over misconduct. Mr IKechukwu Ani, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the commission also approved the punishment of severe reprimand for eight officers, reprimand for 10 and letter of warning to three other officers. Ani, however, said another three officers were...

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Sanwo-Olu Pardons Funke Akindele, Husband, Frees 56 Inmates

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaSanwo-Olu Pardons Funke Akindele, Husband, Frees 56 Inmates

PilotnewsOctober 10, 2020

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has granted state pardon to Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-Bello, and her husband, Abdulrasheed, and approved the release of 56 inmates from various correctional centres in the state. Akindele-Bello and her husband were both non-custodial convicts for offences related to the disobedience of the COVID-19 lockdown regulations. This was made known in a statement signed by the State Attorney-General (A-G) and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), and...

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Women Engineers Take Over Education of Girl-Mechanic in Ilorin

EducationNewsNigeriaWomen Engineers Take Over Education of Girl-Mechanic in Ilorin

PilotnewsOctober 10, 2020

The Association of Professional Women Engineers, Kwara Chapter, has taken over the educational sponsorship of Miss Atoyebi Abiodun, an SS1 girl-mechanic in Ilorin. Speaking during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Mrs Oluwatoyin Ayotunde, the Chairperson of the association, explained that the girl-mechanic is an orphan, who decided to take up the profession of her late father who was a mechanic. Ayotunde explained that the girl-mechanic, who practices her mechanic...

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500,000 Students Benefit From Free MTN Data

NewsNigeria500,000 Students Benefit From Free MTN Data

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

Network provider, MTN Nigeria, said it was delighted that as at September 2020, more than 500,000 students were utilising its daily free access of 500mb data offer. Rahul De, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria, made this known in Lagos on Friday. He that the network provider was committed to continue supporting e-learning and offering assistance to the education sector in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in June, MTN Nigeria, began...

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One Egg a Day, Good for Human Health — Nutritionist

HealthNewsWellnessOne Egg a Day, Good for Human Health — Nutritionist

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

Dr Adekoya Owosibo, a Nutritionist and Provost, Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Ibadan, says the consumption of one egg in a day will promote good health. Owosibo made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ibadan on the sideline of activities to mark this year’s World Egg Day. The nutritionist said that this year’s theme of the Day — “Eat Your Egg Today and...

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102 Local Contractors Bid for 2019 FG’s Intervention Projects

NewsNigeria102 Local Contractors Bid for 2019 FG’s Intervention Projects

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

No fewer than 102 local contractors on Friday participated in the opening bid for the 2019 FGN-UBEC/OYOSUBEB Intervention projects held at the Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board’s premises. According to Dr Nureni Adeniran, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, the exercise is in compliance with the provision of Public Procurement Act 2010. “We allowed due process in this bid opening, which states that people should be allowed to tender for any...

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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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