Nigeria: Why court sacked Senator Ifeanyi Uba

NewsNigeriaNigeria: Why court sacked Senator Ifeanyi Uba

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Justice Bello Kawu of the FCT High Court in Kubwa, Abuja on Friday ruled that Dr Obinna Uzo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the duly-elected Senator representing Anambra South. Kawu therefore ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a Certificate of Return to Uzo within 24 hours as affirmed. He also ruled that the application of joinder by Chris Uba, the third defendant in the suit, has been struck out. The...

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Enugu Judiciary honours former Chief Judge, late Justice Eze Ozobu

NewsNigeriaEnugu Judiciary honours former Chief Judge, late Justice Eze Ozobu

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Enugu State Judiciary on Friday paid last respect to a onetime Chief Judge of old Enugu State Justice Ezebuilo Ozobu who died at the age of 88 in Enugu. Speaking during a valedictory session for late Ozobu, the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Mrs Ngozi Emehelu described him as an `astute administrator’. Emehelu said that Ozobu was an icon, eloquent jurist, upright judge who believed so much in transparency. She noted that Ozobu served the...

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Nigeria grab 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal at African Track Championship

NigeriaSportsNigeria grab 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal at African Track Championship

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Team Nigeria at the ongoing African Track Cycling Championship in Cairo, Egypt, have won one gold, one silver and a bronze medals. The championship organised by the African Cycling Confederation (CAC) began on Thursday and will end on Sunday. According to the competition’s website, Grace Ayuba won gold in the junior category from the scratch 7.5-kilometre event. Former world number five on track cycling in the junior category, Mary Samuel, led the Nigeria team to...

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Are the Arewa Youths Speaking with one Voice or a distraction by Divided Northern Youths Trying to Play the Rest of?

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionAre the Arewa Youths Speaking with one Voice or a distraction by Divided Northern Youths Trying to Play the Rest of?

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

The coalition of Northern Youths group under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Assembly recently urged their kinsmen to be “magnanimous enough” and give the southern part of the country, especially the South-South geopolitical zone, the chance to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023. The group spoke through its leader, Mohammed Danlami at a press conference held at the Arewa House, Kaduna. He remarked that in addition to shifting the 2023 presidency to the...

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Your Blood Pressure and You

ColumnsHealthLifestyleYour Blood Pressure and You

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

The blood pressure (BP), is the pressure of your blood on the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps it around your body. Quite often, you hear people say, though ignorantly, that “I don’t have a blood pressure.”  This is far from the truth. Naturally and physiological, every human being or animal, whether the higher or lower animals, has a blood pressure. The blood pressure is a vital part of how your heart and...

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Surviving heart attack in a Nation with more than 5 million cases per year

ColumnsHealthLifestyleSurviving heart attack in a Nation with more than 5 million cases per year

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

The incidence of heart attack in Nigeria is put at about 1.5million cases per year.  This is quite alarming. If the condition is short term, usually will resolve within days to weeks, but if critical, may require emergency concerted care. But the treatment would often depend on the severity of the condition ranging from a well-coordinated lifestyle changes in individuals prone to obesity and cardiac rehabilitation, medications and bypass surgery. Dr.  C. Ugo Ulasi, West...

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Nigeria: Enugu State to Commence the 2020 Sub National Immunization

HealthNigeriaNigeria: Enugu State to Commence the 2020 Sub National Immunization

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Enugu state Primary Healthcare Development Agency, ENPHDA, has announced plans to commence the January 2020 Sub National Immunization plus Days, SNIPD, in the state. The four Immunization plus days, which will start on Saturday 18th to Tuesday 21st January, 2020, will prevent children below five years from contacting Poliomyelitis infection that kills infected child. This was contained in a statement released by the Executive Secretary of the Agency, George Ugwu, on Wednesday in Enugu. The...

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‘I looked for death but I couldn’t find it,’ a Nigerian town relives the brutal civil war, 50 years after it ended

Nigeria‘I looked for death but I couldn’t find it,’ a Nigerian town relives the brutal civil war, 50 years after it ended

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria’s Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The year was 1969, and it was two months before the end of the brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country. It was said to be the...

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How Ghana’s historic homecoming is changing Africa

LifestyleNewsHow Ghana’s historic homecoming is changing Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

It’s the last Saturday of the year in the heart of Accra, Ghana’s capital. The air is thick with the anticipation of the thousands of revelers who have swarmed the gates of El Wak Stadium to take part in an annual celebration of African culture known as Afrochella. Inside it’s a sea of diversity. Austrian, Ivorian and Nigerian men pose for cameras before inviting an American woman to join. Nearby, two French women draped in the...

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House delivers impeachment articles to Senate, setting stage for historic trial

NewsPoliticsHouse delivers impeachment articles to Senate, setting stage for historic trial

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

The House of Representatives formally delivered two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for a trial to determine whether a president should be removed from office for just the third time in U.S. history. In a ceremony that capped a whirlwind day on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed both articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In the morning, Pelosi introduced the...

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