Davido’s Partner, Chioma Recovers from Coronavirus

CoronavirusEntertainmentNigeriaDavido’s Partner, Chioma Recovers from Coronavirus

PilotnewsApril 20, 2020

Nigerian music artiste David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has disclosed that his fiancée, Chioma,  has tested negative for coronavirus after  23 days of contracting the virus. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Davido disclosed this in a series of tweets on his  Twitter handle. The “Assurance” crooner explained that Chioma tested negative twice for the infection. He said: “Glory be to God … Chioma has now tested negative twice for Covid19 …...

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UPDATE: Lagos Records New 70 COVID-19 Cases, Making 376 Cases of the Total 627 Cases in Nigeria

CoronavirusLifestyleNigeriaUPDATE: Lagos Records New 70 COVID-19 Cases, Making 376 Cases of the Total 627 Cases in Nigeria

PilotnewsApril 20, 2020

Lagos state on Sunday night recorded 70 new cases of COVID-19, making 376 cases of the total 627 cases recorded in Nigeria. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known via its Twitter handle on Sunday night. According to the Tweet, “Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 70 in Lagos 7 in FCT 3 in Katsina 3 in Akwa Ibom 1 in Jigawa 1 in Bauchi 1 in Borno”. It further stated that “As at 11:50 pm...

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BREAKING: Nigerian Oil Union Suspends Industrial Action After Exxon Mobil Workers Freed

EconomyLabourNigeriaBREAKING: Nigerian Oil Union Suspends Industrial Action After Exxon Mobil Workers Freed

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

YENAGOA, Nigeria  – A major Nigerian oil union has suspended planned industrial action after 21 Exxon Mobil Corp. employees quarantined last week after their arrest for violating coronavirus-related movement restrictions were freed, it said on Sunday. He said 22 workers, whose coronavirus status was unknown, were quarantined in line with relevant health protocols and would be charged in court. But Wike’s spokesman, Simeon Nwakaudu, on Sunday issued a statement that said the workers were all...

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‘Armed Bandits’ Kill 47 in Northwest Nigeria’s Katsina State: Police

National SecurityNewsNigeria‘Armed Bandits’ Kill 47 in Northwest Nigeria’s Katsina State: Police

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

BAUCHI, Nigeria  – Gunmen killed 47 people in attacks on villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina in the early hours of Saturday, local police said. “Armed bandits”, some of whom wielded AK 47 guns, carried out the attacks, Katsina police said in a statement on Sunday. Hundreds of people have been killed in the last year by criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings in northwest Nigeria. Such attacks have added to security...

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Tribute to Kyari: “Nigerians will look back in years to come and see that he was truly the Best Man”

NigeriaOpinionTribute to Kyari: “Nigerians will look back in years to come and see that he was truly the Best Man”

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

By Hon. Geoffrey Onyeama I first met Abba Kyari in 1977 at Warwick University in England. I had gone there to do law as a second first degree. He had come to do a degree in sociology. I had a pending application to do Law at Cambridge and when the result of that application came and it was positive, I left Warwick during the second semester. But my five months at Warwick was enough to...

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Imagining Nigeria After COVID-19: A Time for Bold Leadership

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionImagining Nigeria After COVID-19: A Time for Bold Leadership

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

How will history judge Nigeria’s leaders?  History will judge them harshly for inaction, for sycophancy, for malfeasance, for causing the death of hope in a nation that’s mourning an ignoble tradition. The dearth of political leadership continues to impact the daily overall social condition for both the rich and poor in Nigeria. The five years of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration and the past few months of the coronavirus pandemic have exposed just how much a...

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A New Nigerian VC is Trying to Democratize Startup Funding for Everyday Investors

AfricaBusinessNewsA New Nigerian VC is Trying to Democratize Startup Funding for Everyday Investors

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

The subject of funding is nearly always top of mind in Nigerian startup and venture spaces. But while founders and startups looking to raise funding have typically had to look to the US and Europe for venture capital, there’s an increasing number of options back home. The latest addition to that growing list is the Future Africa Collective, launched by Iyin Aboyeji, who made his name as a early co-founder of Andela and then Flutterwave....

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Abba Kyari: Everyone Will Die One Day ─ So What?

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionAbba Kyari: Everyone Will Die One Day ─ So What?

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

The mentality of victims of the social system during a pandemic invokes a persistent sense of vulnerability to their oppressive leaders, nonparticipation in the civic process, distrust of the system, and often thoughts of negativity. With such a hopeless mindset, it is excusable when they are excited over the death of those who gradually drowned them into the darkest sea of social wretchedness. Anytime a dictator or an oppressor dies, there are often three major...

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Covid 19: EEDC Donates 60 Cartons of Sanitisers to Imo Govt

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCovid 19: EEDC Donates 60 Cartons of Sanitisers to Imo Govt

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The Enugu Electric Development Company  (EEDC) has donated 60 cartons of hand sanitisers to Imo State Government as part of efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Mr. Emeka Ezeh, Head, Corporate Communications of the company led the delegation to present the sanitisers to the government in Owerri on Saturday. Ezeh expressed the hope that the product would go a long way to assist the people in providing a sanitary facilities to...

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COVID-19: Abia Gov’t finds Missing Suspected Coronavirus Case

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: Abia Gov’t finds Missing Suspected Coronavirus Case

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

Abia government on Saturday said that the suspected coronavirus case which it declared wanted on April 17 has been found and placed in an isolation center in the state. Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, the Commissioner for Information made the disclosure in a statement he issued in Umuahia on Saturday. Okiyi-Kalu said that health officials at the isolation facility had collected samples from the suspected coronavirus case and dispatched the samples to the Nigeria Center for Disease...

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