Bear with FG, Naira redesign has socio-economic benefits – Obi tells Nigerians

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBear with FG, Naira redesign has socio-economic benefits – Obi tells Nigerians

PilotnewsFebruary 6, 2023

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has said the current pain and inconvenience created by redesigning the Naira would bring significant long-term economic and social benefits. Obi also urged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and commercial banks to speed up efforts to make the new Naira notes available to small depositors and unbanked Nigerians. He said this is to help reduce the pains of Nigerians, especially those living in rural...

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2023: Adopt Peter Obi as a presidential candidate ―​​ Obiano tells APGA

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: Adopt Peter Obi as a presidential candidate ― Obiano tells APGA

PilotnewsFebruary 6, 2023

With only 21-days left for the 2023 Presidential election, an Awka-based Political Scientist, Dr. Emmanuel Obiano, has appealed to the National Leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), to adopt the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, as it a candidate for the February 25th election. The West African Pilot News gathered that the call for the adoption is coming three months after Governor Soludo who is also the national leader...

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2023: Timi Frank Warns Buhari, INEC Against Plan To Postpone General Elections

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: Timi Frank Warns Buhari, INEC Against Plan To Postpone General Elections

PilotnewsFebruary 6, 2023

Comrade Timi Frank, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC),  on Sunday, advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral  Commission  (INEC) not to contemplate or accept any recommendation to shift the forthcoming polls. The activist made the plea in a press statement in Abuja, and also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), not to add to the current harrowing experience of Nigerians by shifting the polls. Timi...

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2023 elections: 10 political parties collapse structure for Atiku in Anambra

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023 elections: 10 political parties collapse structure for Atiku in Anambra

PilotnewsFebruary 3, 2023

Anambra State Director General of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Committee, Professor Obiora Okonkwo, has said no fewer than ten political parties in the State have collapsed their structures in support of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, in the forthcoming 2023 Presidential election. Okonkwo disclosed this to Journalists shortly after the presidential management committee meeting held at the campaign headquarters in Awka, on Friday....

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Over 380 People Killed, 71 Others Abducted In Niger State

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaOver 380 People Killed, 71 Others Abducted In Niger State

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has released that no fewer than about 380 people were killed and 71 others abducted in Niger State between 2015 and 2021. The North-Central coordinator of the centre, Maj. Gen. Hassan Ibrahim Bature (retd) disclosed this at a sensitisation Programme for the newly posted National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members to the State at the NYSC’s permanent Orientation camp in Paiko, the headquarters...

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Gunmen attack the INEC office, police station, and residential building in Anambra

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGunmen attack the INEC office, police station, and residential building in Anambra

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

Gunmen yesterday, attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A source said the hoodlums burnt the commission’s headquarters using Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. The gunmen also attacked a police station in Nnobi, in the same local government area, and a residential building inside the station, where they killed a boy, and injured a girl. The level of damage in the police station...

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IGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

The Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a leading Africa-focused public policy think tank has announced the appointments of Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu and Professor Osita Ogbu to the Institute’s Global Advisory Board. A press release made available to journalists on Thursday reads, “We are privileged to welcome these two distinguished Nigerians as members of our eminent Global Advisory Board”, said Professor Kingsley Moghalu, the Founder and President of IGET and a former Deputy Governor...

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APC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

…As Tonye Cole, State Exco Affirm Support For Tinubu The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Dayo Israel, has inaugurated the Rivers State chapter of the Jagaban Movement, a national grassroots youth mobilisation unit structured into regions, states, Local Government  Areas (LGAs) wards, and Polling Units, with the objective of mobilising young voters for Bola Tinubu, PREACH presidential candidate and other candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections. The...

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729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

NewsNigeriaPolitics729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

Ahead of the 2023 general elections!, about 729 ballot boxes, 243 voting cubicles, and 256 election bags are part of election materials destroyed in Idemili South LGA offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  as gunmen carried out a coordinated attack on the area on Wednesday. According to Dr. Queen Elizabeth Agwu, the Resident Commissioner (REC) for Anambra State, the shocking development to INEC headquarters, was contained in a statement released by Barrister Festus...

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Lagos 2023: We’ll Revenge Furher APC Sponsored Attacks, PDP Chieftain Vows

NewsNigeriaPoliticsLagos 2023: We’ll Revenge Furher APC Sponsored Attacks, PDP Chieftain Vows

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

Chief Taiwo Kuye, the Deputy Director of Volunteer Groups, Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council, Lagos State, and former zonal organizing secretary of PDP, South-West, has said that the main opposition party would henceforth revenge further attacks from the ruling opposition party, the All Progressives Congress  (APC), ahead of the 2023 general elections. The PDP chieftain who spoke to Pilotnews vowed that his party would retaliate against any further attacks on its members, leaders, or gubernatorial candidate...

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