Senator Umeh Picks Labour Party Senate Ticket, Pledges to Work with Peter Obi

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSenator Umeh Picks Labour Party Senate Ticket, Pledges to Work with Peter Obi

PilotnewsJune 3, 2022

Few days Former Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial zone, Senator Victor Umeh, had lost the ALl Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, primary ticket, he has won the ticket of the Labour Party (LP) to contest the 2023 election. Umeh had earlier on Friday notified of his joining Labour Party from All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and also stood for the primary election of the party, which held at Beautiful Gate Hotel, Awka. Returning officer in the...

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Trouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

AfricaBlogColumnsTrouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

PilotnewsJune 3, 2022

Zimbabwe’s worsening social, political, and economic landscape means trouble for the Southern Africa subregion. Conditions for the people of Zimbabwe continue to go from bad to worse. Triple-digit inflation shows no signs of slowing.  Over half of the country lives in poverty.  Its corrupt government lurches from disinterest in the population’s pain to rosy projections for growth based on pure fantasy to clumsy interventions like the recent short-lived edict banning banks from lending. Politically, the merger...

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2023: Former Anambra Chief Judge, Umeadi Emerges APGA’s Presidential Candidate

NewsNigeria Elections2023: Former Anambra Chief Judge, Umeadi Emerges APGA’s Presidential Candidate

PilotnewsJune 2, 2022

By Mbabie Anastasia and Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporters)   A former Chief Judge of Anambra State, Prof. Peter Umeadi has emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2023 polls. Justice Umeadi who was returned unopposed became APGA’s presidential candidate at the party’s convention in Abuja which was attended by its leaders and members from the country’s six geo-political zones. The party delegates affirmed his candidacy by a voice...

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Road Crash Claims One Life In Awka,

Accidents and SafetyRoad Crash Claims One Life In Awka,

PilotnewsJune 2, 2022

By Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) AWKA — A road accident close to Anambra State  Government House, along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, Awka has claimed one life whose identity could not be immediately ascertained. According to an eyewitness at the scene of the road crash, the victim was on a motorcycle, with registration number QB 804-NSK on the right lane leading to Aroma junction from the Government House when a car trying to maneuver its way hit...

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OPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

PilotnewsMay 31, 2022

The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus.   Insofar as the axle of political contestation in Nigeria is the struggle for power between the northern and southern elite blocs, systemic stability hinges on the moral understanding that power will rotate between the two regions. The order of succession since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic in 1999 has largely followed the logic of this entente, starting...

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Bus Conductor Dies As Driver Sleeps Off on Steering In Anambra

Accidents and SafetyBus Conductor Dies As Driver Sleeps Off on Steering In Anambra

PilotnewsMay 31, 2022

By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter) A yet-to-be-identified Bus Conductor, Tuesday, died in a fatal crash that occurred along the Ihiala—Owerri Road, Anambra State. The Ag. Sector Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Anambra State Command, RC Margaret B. Onabe, in a statement issued to newsmen, explained that the incident occurred close to the Ihiala Local Government Secretariat, at about 05:00hours. According to her, 22 people (comprising 17 male adults and 5 female adults)...

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Ekwulobia Catholic Bishop Okpaleke Becomes Cardinal

NewsReligionEkwulobia Catholic Bishop Okpaleke Becomes Cardinal

PilotnewsMay 30, 2022

By Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) Most Rev. Dr. Peter Okpalaeke, the “rejected”  Catholic Bishop of Mbaise Diocese and current Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, Anambra state has just been appointed a Cardinal by His Holiness, Pope Francis. With this appointment, Cardinal Okpalaeke automatically becomes the second-highest-ranking leader of the Catholic Christian faith in Igboland, just after Francis Cardinal Arinze, and among the first five in entire Nigeria: Cardinal Arinze, Cardinal Okojie, and Cardinal Onaiyekan. Nigeria has...

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Sen. Binani Emerges APC Governorship Candidate In Adamawa

NewsSen. Binani Emerges APC Governorship Candidate In Adamawa

PilotnewsMay 27, 2022

The senator representing Adamawa Central in the National Assembly, Aisha Ahmed Dahiru Binani has emerged victorious in the All Progressives Congress APC Governorship primary election held on Thursday after defeating five other contestants to become the flagbearer of the party in Adamawa in the 2023 general elections. Senator Binani who is the only female contestant defeated five men and polled 430 votes, followed by former Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu who...

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OPINION: Reaction to “Blasphemy” Killing Illustrates Complicated Role of Religion in Nigeria’s Democratic Transition

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionOPINION: Reaction to “Blasphemy” Killing Illustrates Complicated Role of Religion in Nigeria’s Democratic Transition

PilotnewsMay 27, 2022

Horrendous killing of college sophomore highlights the country’s ethnoreligious fault line, but interdenominational rivalry in the south is of no less moment.   All in all, reactions to the murder of Ms. Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level home economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, have exposed Nigeria’s deepest political fractures and lingering questions over citizenship, national identity, and secularity. On May 12, following disagreement over a WhatsApp voice note deemed to have been...

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Peter Obi: Between the Politics of a Delegate and the Downing Street Photoshoot

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionPeter Obi: Between the Politics of a Delegate and the Downing Street Photoshoot

PilotnewsMay 27, 20221

“Obi’s latest political move contradicts his own gospel of being indispensable, and it hurts his credibility moving forward.” Just a few days before his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was due for its national convention, Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi shocked his camp with an announcement. Mr. Obi announced his resignation from the party and also his withdrawal from the presidential race on his party’s slate. There were, however, rumors that he would join the Labour...

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