The Familheey Mobile Paltform Launches COVID-19 Support Network

CoronavirusNewsWellnessThe Familheey Mobile Paltform Launches COVID-19 Support Network

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

The Familheey mobile platform Launches Innovative ‘Request’ Feature to Help Families and Communities Secure Aid and Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic In a first of its kind initiative, the Familheey mobile app’s innovative ‘Request’ feature has begun to play a key role in helping families, groups and communities to secure aid and support during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, while many health systems across the world are struggling to...

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Northern Governors Mourn Former NNPC Boss

NewsNigeriaOil & GasNorthern Governors Mourn Former NNPC Boss

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has expressed sadness over the death of the former Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau, Simon Lalong, in a condolence message described his death as a big loss to the nation. Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor, Dr. Makut Macham, issued the condolence message on Saturday in Jos. “The late Maikanti Baru...

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Buratai Inspects Local Construction of Combat Vehicles in Maiduguri

MilitaryNewsNigeriaBuratai Inspects Local Construction of Combat Vehicles in Maiduguri

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has inspected ongoing manufacture and repairs/overhaul of combat vehicles including Armoured Personnel Carriers and mine resistant anti Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs) by Army Engineers in Maiduguri. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, said this in a statement on Saturday. Musa said that the work was being carried out at the 107 Division Equipment Support in Maimalari Barracks, Maiduguri. He said that Buratai has been...

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The Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionThe Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

Yet, here I am still standing, pledging allegiance to NIGERIA with all sense of patriotism—a nation still being governed by some of the leaders that masterminded the devastating genocide I survived 53 years ago. Evacuating a large family from the village, Achala, to remote farmland called Eziobibi, almost twenty miles away on foot, and through near inaccessible road-paths, and under severe weather conditions was not a joke. I was seven at the time, and I...

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Project Mayrock –Fulfilling the Dreams of My Hero Husband, One Step at a Time By Bianca Ojukwu

NewsProject Mayrock –Fulfilling the Dreams of My Hero Husband, One Step at a Time By Bianca Ojukwu

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

In the days following the stroke which would eventually take his life, one issue weighed heavily on Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s mind. That ‘issue’ was the immortalization of Bruce Mayrock, the 20 year old who set himself ablaze in front of the UN Building in New York on this day (29th Of May) in 1969 to draw attention to the plight of the Biafran people (a people whom he had never met, and whom he believed...

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Poem: War Notes On A Biafran Night

Arts & CultureChris Chinwe UlasiFiction & PoetryPoem: War Notes On A Biafran Night

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

The night was dark-blue in the face with a pale-yellow eye; an occasional passing glow filters through a black smoke blanket covering like dusk light through the windowpanes of a dark room,— The curtains are drawn. Not a good day to have conversations with the night: it can barely see us; not even a good month to listen to its stories— A voice unsure about the sounds it speaks; not even a fond season for...

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The Current Igbo Are “Inferior Igbo”

ColumnsNewsOpinionThe Current Igbo Are “Inferior Igbo”

PilotnewsMay 29, 2020

Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the “Biafra of the mind.” Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep. But let me attempt here to tease out Dim Ojukwu’s prescription: the greatest proof of Igbo survival and aspiration must be to model, wherever Onye-Igbo stands, the ethos of innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ability that marked the Igbo endeavor in Biafra. We must...

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Igbos and Folly of Biafra–a Documentary by By HR Udunna Ukegbu

NigeriaSpecial ReportIgbos and Folly of Biafra–a Documentary by By HR Udunna Ukegbu

PilotnewsMay 29, 2020

WAP brings under one domain, a four-part documentary of the very hostile Nigeria’s Civil War by Hector-Roosevelt Udunna Ukegbu, PhD. Ukegbu, is a graduate of the University of Lagos, where he was a student leader; he also graduated from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; St. Gregory’s College, Ikoyi, Lagos, and the Owerri Grammar School, Imerienwe. He is also a columnist with the WAP.   Igbos and Folly of Biafra (Part I)  Pilotnews May...

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Igbos and Folly of Biafra (Part 4)

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionIgbos and Folly of Biafra (Part 4)

PilotnewsMay 29, 2020

Fruitless Peace Negotiations. The End of Biafra. Today—Which Way Forward? Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war — Ernest Hemingway On September 7, 1968, as renowned Biafran diplomat Raph Uwechue recounts, some anxious senior Igbos held a meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers where an OAU summit which would tackle the imbroglio of...

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Buhari to address Small Businesses at 2020 MSMEs Awards, Entries Open

CoronavirusEconomyNewsBuhari to address Small Businesses at 2020 MSMEs Awards, Entries Open

PilotnewsMay 29, 2020

In a bid to encourage small businesses in Nigeria amid the COVID-19 pandemic, President Muhammadu Buhari will address Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Mr Tola Johnson, Special Assistant to the President on MSMEs, Office of the Vice President said the address which would form part of the 2020 MSMEs award would hold July 16. Johnson who addressed a virtual news conference in Abuja on Friday, said that in spite of the ravaging pandemic and its effects on MEMSe,...

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