OPINION: Domestic Abuse; How We Feed The Beast

ColumnsLaw & JusticeMarriageOpinionOPINION: Domestic Abuse; How We Feed The Beast

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)April 19, 2022

While it is important to ensure abusers are brought to book, we might not achieve the goal of ending domestic violence without taking into consideration the root of abuse in the mind of victims The UN defines domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. It could be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that...

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Malapropism: “No, You Should Have Brought Nazareth Since You Did Not See Nineveh”

ColumnsLifestyleMalapropism: “No, You Should Have Brought Nazareth Since You Did Not See Nineveh”

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)April 19, 2022

Okoro was so proud of how diverse his wife, Jane, was, in that she could converse with people from different cultural backgrounds and fields of career. The night had fallen and they were in bed about to have some pre-sleep romantic moment. Okoro looked Jane in the eye and said with a well of desire; “Honey, I love your electric personality.” Jane blinked and replied; “I appreciate your mention of my personality as eclectic.” In...

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OPINION: State Pardon for Former Governors Puts Nigeria’s Anticorruption Drive in Jeopardy

ColumnsCrime & PunishmentOpinionOPINION: State Pardon for Former Governors Puts Nigeria’s Anticorruption Drive in Jeopardy

PilotnewsApril 18, 2022

Nigeria’s pardon for former corrupt governors damages the country’s anti-corruption campaign and undermines democratic institutions. The unexpected pardon last week of two leading politicians convicted earlier on charges of corruption has brought renewed focus on Nigeria’s flailing anticorruption drive. Following a meeting of the country’s Council of State, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, governors respectively of the central and northeastern states of Plateau and Taraba from 1997 to 2007 were pardoned along with 157 other convicts. An...

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Opinion: APC And The Burden Of Sustaining Buhari’s Legacy

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOpinion: APC And The Burden Of Sustaining Buhari’s Legacy

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 18, 2022

By. Ezenwanne Onwuka   With about 13 months left till the end of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the ruling party, APC, is saddled with the herculean task of finding a successor who will sustain the incumbent president’s legacy. It is a big burden, indeed, for the party. And to ensure that this objective is achieved, the party is not ready to relinquish power. Who, except an APC faithful, can build on the foundation...

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OPINION: Nigeria’s Deepening Security Crisis Exposes Growing Reliance on Nonstate Actors

ColumnsNational SecurityOpinionOPINION: Nigeria’s Deepening Security Crisis Exposes Growing Reliance on Nonstate Actors

PilotnewsApril 12, 2022

Governor El-Rufai’s threat to import mercenaries to help with Nigeria’s security crisis reveals cracks in the security sector and waning state power. A rare positive note as Nigeria spirals into a state of lawlessness is the unintended return to the front burner of longstanding issues around governance at the subnational level. Until now, such issues have bubbled under the surface, receiving fleeting attention only when the country’s perennial crisis threatens to boil over, only to...

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OPINION: What 2023 General Election Might Mean for Nigeria’s Democracy

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: What 2023 General Election Might Mean for Nigeria’s Democracy

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)April 10, 2022

There are increasing signs that 2023 might just be another lost opportunity for Nigerians unless they approach it differently In about a year’s time, Nigerians will have a chance to put their democracy to the test. How, or indeed, what happens thereafter will be a direct consequence of what Nigerians did or failed to do when duty called. Already, the process that will be crowned by the General Election has commenced. Many people have bought...

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OPINION: Blaise Compaore’s Conviction Is a Momentous Victory for the Rule of Law and Citizen Power in Africa

AfricaColumnsLaw & JusticeOpinionOPINION: Blaise Compaore’s Conviction Is a Momentous Victory for the Rule of Law and Citizen Power in Africa

PilotnewsApril 7, 2022

Compaore’s conviction is good news for the rule of law and democratic consolidation in Africa.    Former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore’s sentence of life imprisonment by an Ouagadougou military court for complicity in the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, marks an important victory for the rule of law in the country and the region as a whole. In exile in the Ivory Coast since his ouster from power following a popular uprising in 2014,...

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The Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

ColumnsHealthLifestyleThe Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

PilotnewsApril 6, 20221

Let me guess. You are here because you have a vagina or are a friend of the vagina. Either way, you are welcome. Read through these genitalic words: “ikpu”, “toto”, cunt, camel toe, puna, fish lips, coochie, cookie, bearded clam, paradise, golden palace, papaya and most common of all, pussy. Apart from “ikpu (the Igbo word) and “toto” (the Yoruba expression), the reason why the vagina is coded as other slangy words might be because...

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OPINION: Nigerian Democracy in Peril as Country Descends Into Lawlessness

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionOPINION: Nigerian Democracy in Peril as Country Descends Into Lawlessness

PilotnewsMarch 31, 2022

The recent attack on a Nigerian railway is the latest chapter in the country’s worsening security crisis and tottering democracy. On Monday March 28, 2022, some gunmen launched a deadly attack on a Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Abuja-Kaduna evening train carrying an estimated 398 passengers. After detonating explosives on the track (and possibly inside the train according to conflicting reports in the local media), the gunmen surrounded the immobilized train and started discharging their firearms into the...

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OPINION: Reaction to Governor Soludo’s List of Commissioner Nominees Sent to House of Assembly

Anambra ElectionsColumnsOPINION: Reaction to Governor Soludo’s List of Commissioner Nominees Sent to House of Assembly

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)March 30, 2022

AWKA — Anambra State Governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has sent his list of commissioner nominees to the State House of Assembly, almost two weeks after his oath of office at Government House in Awka, the state capital. Recall that on March 17 during his swearing-in address, Prof. Soludo had assured that he would send his list of would-be commissioners to the House of Assembly that same week. But perhaps owing to certain political reasons, he...

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