Education In the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus On Enugu State

ColumnsEducationOpinionEducation In the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus On Enugu State

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

The current spate of the pandemic ravaging the global community has kept world leaders and organizations on edge to find a possible cure. Meanwhile, as a precautionary measure, schools, religious places of worship, markets and other places of gathering were shut down so as to curb the transmission and spread of the virus. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, records, 191 countries implemented countrywide closure of educational institutions and over...

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Zamfara to Engage 700 Youths in Community Policing

Crime & SecurityJobsNigeriaZamfara to Engage 700 Youths in Community Policing

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Sunday, announced his administration’s readiness to train and engage about 700 youths in community policing across the state. Matawalle made the disclosure while addressing people at his Maradun country home, as part of activities lined up for this year’s Eid-El Fitr celebrations. The governor, who said that 50 youths would be selected from each of the 14 local government areas of the state, added that the beneficiaries would be...

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Venice Film Festival Will Go Ahead in September – Veneto Governor

FilmWorld NewsVenice Film Festival Will Go Ahead in September – Veneto Governor

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September. Luca Zaia, Governor of the region around the Italian city made this known on Sunday as the spread of the coronavirus in the country slows. Organised by the Biennale di Venezia Company, Venice is the world’s longest running film festival. In January it announced that Cate Blanchett would preside over its 77th edition. Due to the lockdown imposed on the film...

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Defiant Netanyahu Goes on Trial in Israel Charged With Corruption

WorldDefiant Netanyahu Goes on Trial in Israel Charged With Corruption

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday became the first serving Israeli Prime Minister to go on trial, proclaiming his innocence in the corridor before walking into court to face charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The trial came a week after Israel’s longest-serving leader was sworn into a record fifth term, demonstrating his knack for survival by securing an unexpected power-sharing deal with his main opponent after three inconclusive elections in a year. He says...

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British Flairjet to Pay N1m Penalty For Airport Violation, Says Minister

Foreign PolicyLaw & JusticeNigeriaBritish Flairjet to Pay N1m Penalty For Airport Violation, Says Minister

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

FlairJet, a British private charter company, which is also an affiliate of Flexjet, is to pay one million naira for violating COVID-19 airport directives in Nigeria. The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, made the disclosure on Sunday via his verified twitter handle. “Flairjet were found to violate our civil aviation regulations IS 1.3.3(a) Table 2(IV) 7(a) and IS 1.3.3 (a) Table 2 (VIII) (4). “The maximum penalty for each is N500, 000. “ We...

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Defence HQ Says Airstrikes Kill 400 Bandits in Katsina, Zamfara

MilitaryNational SecurityNewsNigeriaDefence HQ Says Airstrikes Kill 400 Bandits in Katsina, Zamfara

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji has neutralised no fewer than 200 armed bandits in multiple air strikes in Katsina and Zamfara. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja said the operations were in continuation of the offensive to rid the country of bandits and other criminal elements. Enenche said that close to 200 bandits were killed in multiple air strikes conducted...

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Buhari, Family Members Observe Eid Prayer Inside Aso Villa

NewsNigeriaRegionsBuhari, Family Members Observe Eid Prayer Inside Aso Villa

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his family on Sunday observed the Eid-El-Fitr prayer at the presidential quarters in line with the protocol against mass gathering issued by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protocol of social distancing was also exhibited during the two-raka’at prayer. President Buhari had on May 22 pledged to conduct his Eid prayers with his family at home as directed by the...

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Buhari Tasks Farmers on Massive Food Production, Says“No Money for Food Importation”

EconomyFoodNewsNigeriaBuhari Tasks Farmers on Massive Food Production, Says“No Money for Food Importation”

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian farmers on the need to embark on massive productive agricultural activities this farming season as Nigeria has no money for food importation. The president gave the challenge shortly after observing this year’s Eid prayer alongside members of his family and few presidential aides at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Eid-El-Fitr prayer was observed in line with the protocol against mass...

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Is Being Wealthy a Precondition for Good Governance?

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionIs Being Wealthy a Precondition for Good Governance?

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

I was at the venue where Hon. Nonso Okafor representing Nnewi North Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly handed a house he built for childless indigent widows in Okpuno Nnewichi Nnewi, Anambra state. A bungalow built to well above average taste —painted and furnished, again to a taste that is above typical. One question kept on popping in my head, “really, are some people more disposed to serve than others on the basis...

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On the Rise of the Phoenix, “Dear lockdown folks…”

Chris Chinwe UlasiColumnsFiction & PoetryOn the Rise of the Phoenix, “Dear lockdown folks…”

PilotnewsMay 24, 20201

Dear lockdown folks, this is the Phoenix. Yes, that enigmatic bird of legends, the one that goes by what it can do not what muted dreams conjure up. Phoenix is my name! ”Lockdown folks, why are you so depressed?” Have you been watching the press briefings –yes, the ones created by DT. The ones that buck at reason; the ones that proclaim darkness even if the sky is bright and sunny? The daily news updates...

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