Ali Baba Seeks Commercialisation of Nigerian Festivals

Arts & CultureEntertainmentNigeriaAli Baba Seeks Commercialisation of Nigerian Festivals

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Nigerian Comedian, Atunyota Akpobome, popularly known as “Ali Baba,” on Saturday called for the commercialisation of Nigerian festivals to boost nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and woo local and international tourists. Akpobome made the call during an online zoom meeting of the five tourism sub-sectors with the theme: “Post COVID-19: A Fresh Start for Tourism in Nigeria”, organised by the Nigeria Travel Week. He said that the Nigerian festivals were still at their rudimentary stage...

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OPEC+ Countries Extend Oil Output Cut to July

Oil & GasWorld NewsOPEC+ Countries Extend Oil Output Cut to July

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC allies, known as OPEC+ have agreed to extend the 10-million-barrel-per-day (mbd) first phase of the oil output cut by one month, to July 2020. The group disclosed this in a statement released at the end of its online meeting in Vienna on Saturday. It would be recalled that OPEC and its allies under the OPEC+ had agreed to cut supply by up to 10 million barrels...

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Ekiti Airport Project to Continue Despite Unfriendly Economy – Gov. Fayemi

InfrastructureNewsTravelEkiti Airport Project to Continue Despite Unfriendly Economy – Gov. Fayemi

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The Cargo Airport, currently being built by the Ekiti State government in Ado Ekiti, will continue, notwithstanding the present unfriendly economy, Gov. Kayode Fayemi has said. The governor, who said this on Friday in Ado Ekiti, while on an inspection visit to some project sites, embarked upon by his administration, said he was confident that the project would be completed on schedule. According to him, the current economic downturn being experienced globally will not be...

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Protests Worldwide Embrace Black Lives Matter Movement

Law & JusticeWorld NewsProtests Worldwide Embrace Black Lives Matter Movement

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

LONDON — Thousands of people took to the streets in European and Asian cities on Saturday, demonstrating in support of U.S. protests against police brutality. Police in the German city of Hamburg used pepper spray on protesters and were ready to deploy water cannons. Several hundred “hooded and aggressive people” had put officers under pressure in the city centre, police said in a tweet, adding “We have already had to use pepper spray. With all due...

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World Environment Day: Plateau Commissioner Decries Indiscriminate Dumping of Waste

ConservationEnvironmentNewsWorld Environment Day: Plateau Commissioner Decries Indiscriminate Dumping of Waste

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

As the world celebrates this year’s Environment Day, Plateau environment commissioner Usman Idi has decried the indiscriminate dumping of refuse by residents of areas waste evacuators cannot access. The commissioner told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Jos that the situation was impeding the evacuators’ efforts to discharge their duties diligently. He said that the Plateau Environmental Protection And Sanitation Agency (PEPSA) had designated areas for residents to dump their waste to...

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Human Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

ColumnsEditorialsNigeriaOpinionHuman Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Disecting this strange phenomenon of hundreds of teenage Northern boys, no girls among them, hiding among cattle in trailers, others in minibusses, traveling in the dead of night, trying to sneak into Yorubaland but more especially into the Southeast and South-South zones. For those unfamiliar with Homer’s tome the Iliad, the mythological story of the ten-year siege by forces from a coalition of Greek states circa 670 B.C. against the city-state of Troy, this saying...

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‘Selma’ Snubbed at 2015 Oscars After Cast Protested Police Violence, Actor Oyelowo Says

Arts & CultureEntertainmentUnited States‘Selma’ Snubbed at 2015 Oscars After Cast Protested Police Violence, Actor Oyelowo Says

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The civil rights movie “Selma” was made free for rental on Friday, a day after actor David Oyelowo said Oscar voters had deliberately snubbed the film in 2015. Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie, said members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences objected when “Selma” cast members protested the death of a black American. “I remember at the premiere of ‘Selma’ us wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirts in protest,” said Oyelowo, referring to...

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How Police Extort Money at COVID-19 Checkpoints In Adamawa and Taraba

CoronavirusNigeriaSpecial ReportHow Police Extort Money at COVID-19 Checkpoints In Adamawa and Taraba

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Travellers pay security operatives for passage We’re not aware, say police Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz (Regional Correspondent)  For now, the police and other security operatives in uniform and plainclothes has been accused of profiteering from the lockdown put to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some residents in Yola,Zing, Numan, Jalingo,Wukari  and other major towns said  that rather than enforce the restriction, the operatives, including military and immigration personnel, were helping themselves to pecuniary gains. The border...

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COVID-19: Fidelity Bank Donates N10m to Kano Govt

CoronavirusNewsPhilanthropyCOVID-19: Fidelity Bank Donates N10m to Kano Govt

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The management of Fidelity Bank Plc has donated N10 million to the Kano Government for the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Mr. Hassan Imam, Executive Director, Northern operation of the bank who presented the cheque on Friday in Kano, said that the gesture was part of the bank’s social responsibility and contribution to the fight against the dreaded disease. Imam, who lauded the commitment of the state government said that the...

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Fayemi Mourns Prominent Ekiti Leader, Omotosho

NewsNigeriaFayemi Mourns Prominent Ekiti Leader, Omotosho

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti,  on Friday, mourned yet another prominent Ekiti son, Sir Remi Omotosho, who died at 75. Omotosho died barely 24-hours after the demise of one-time Governor of old Ondo State, Bamidele Olumilua. Fayemi, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, described the late Omotosho as an illustrious son of Ekiti and a dynamic leader in the financial sector. The governor also said that the late Omotosho...

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