2023: Vote The Right Person That Captures Hope And Posterity – Anglican Bishop, Obi Tells Electorate

NewsNigeria Elections2023: Vote The Right Person That Captures Hope And Posterity – Anglican Bishop, Obi Tells Electorate

PilotnewsSeptember 12, 2022

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter)   NNEWI — The Anglican Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Right Reverend Ndubuisi Obi says as the 2023 general election draws closer, it is up to the electorates to vote for the right person that captures hope and posterity for them. Bishop Obi stated this while reading his presidential address during the third session of the ninth synod of the diocese, holding at Saint Mathew’s Parish, Ozubulu. “We find it funny...

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Police Give Casualty Figures On Anambra Attack

Crime & SecurityPolice Give Casualty Figures On Anambra Attack

PilotnewsSeptember 12, 2022

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter)   Police have given casualty figures on the attack in Anambra State by gunmen that claimed many people on Sunday night. The State command Monday, disclosed that five persons lost their lives during the attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah by gunmen. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, told Newsmen on Monday that though no official statement had been issued, the command had discovered five casualties. However, he said...

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OPINION: At the Peter Obi Event in New York

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: At the Peter Obi Event in New York

PilotnewsSeptember 11, 2022

By Sonala Olumhense 11th September 2022 As a Nigerian with considerable interest in public affairs, the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s Hilton Midtown Hotel, the venue of “Afro-Economics & Government Policy: A Conversation with Governor Peter Obi,” was my destination last Sunday. The engagement followed others in the United States, some of which had been mismanaged by local organisers who chose to charge a gate fee. Not New York, which was free to every...

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Anambra Walk for Life: Women Advocates for Inclusiveness, Commitment to Nation Building

BusinessGender & EquityAnambra Walk for Life: Women Advocates for Inclusiveness, Commitment to Nation Building

PilotnewsSeptember 8, 2022

By Ada Nwanagum (Staff Correspondent)   Not fewer than a hundred and fifty women in Anambra State were charged to intensify their involvement in political activities in order to take their pride of place in the country and play supportive roles in their homes to earn the respect of their husbands and children at home Labour Party candidate for Awka North and South federal constituency Prof Liliana Orogbu made the call during the Walk For...

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NewsCJID Describes Misinformation As A Major Threat To Nigeria’s Democracy

PilotnewsSeptember 8, 2022

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has urged INEC to collaborate with the media to curb misinformation in the media space as it poses a major threat to Nigeria’s democracy. Tobi Oluwatola, Executive Director (CJID) at a conference of the Nigeria fact-checkers coalition in Abuja yesterday, said authoritarian actors in the forthcoming elections might weaponize misinformation to instigate fear and violence, hence the need to prioritize fact-checking in...

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OPINION: Mikhail Gorbachev on the Streets of Accra

ColumnsForeign PolicyOpinionOPINION: Mikhail Gorbachev on the Streets of Accra

PilotnewsSeptember 7, 2022

The aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet empire reverberated from Cape Town to Cairo.   Mikhail Gorbachev, the late Soviet leader who passed on last week aged 91, is rightly remembered for his role in terminating the East-West Cold War, redrawing the map of Europe, and effectively shortening the calendar of the twentieth century. While historians may continue to nitpick whether Gorbachev singularly set the Soviet Union on the path to dismemberment or merely recognized the...

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Nigerian Prisons Now Impregnable, Jailbreaks Will Never Be Repeated – FG

NewsNigerian Prisons Now Impregnable, Jailbreaks Will Never Be Repeated – FG

PilotnewsSeptember 7, 2022

ABUJA — The federal government has assured Nigerians that there will ‘never’ be a prison break in Nigeria again. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, stated this at a world press conference held at the Radio House Abuja on Monday. No fewer than 14 prison breaks have occurred since President Muhammadu Buhari came into power in 2015, with over 6,000 inmates escaping from various correctional centers across the country, according to a tally by The Africa...

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Women, Girls Are Critical Members of the Society —WACOL

Gender & EquityNewsWomen, Girls Are Critical Members of the Society —WACOL

PilotnewsSeptember 6, 2022

By Ada Nwanagum (Correspondent)   AWKA — A gender-based organization known as Women Aid Collective (WACOL) in collaboration with 50-50 Action Women has called for the total elimination of violence and harmful cultural practices against women and the girl-child in Anambra State. The two gender-based groups made this call during a community town hall meeting sponsored by Ford Foundation in Awka, Anambra State capital. They decried the high rate of unlawful cultural practices, domestic violence,...

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Ban On Movement Of Cattle In Anambra Will Affect Our Existence, Miyetti Allah Begs Soludo

NewsBan On Movement Of Cattle In Anambra Will Affect Our Existence, Miyetti Allah Begs Soludo

PilotnewsSeptember 5, 2022

By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter)   The leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MCBAN), South East zone, has appealed to Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, not to enforce the ban on the movement of cattle by foot in the state. The association says if enforced eventually, it would affect its members’ source of survival in the state. It gathered that Governor Soludo, during a meeting with members of Anambra State...

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Mother, Daughter, 3 Others Die in Anambra Autocrash

Accidents and SafetyMother, Daughter, 3 Others Die in Anambra Autocrash

PilotnewsSeptember 5, 2022

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter)   AWKA — Five persons, including a woman and her daughter died in an accident at Enugu Agidi, on the Awka-Enugu expressway in Anambra State. The crash which occurred around 7.20pm on Sunday involved a Red Truck and a black Lexus RX330 Jeep with five persons on board. An eyewitness said the truck driver was speeding when he suddenly lost control and rammed into the Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle( SUV)....

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