Achieving Urban Decongestion and Rural Development in Anambra State

ColumnsLocal GovernmentNigeriaAchieving Urban Decongestion and Rural Development in Anambra State

PilotnewsDecember 25, 2020

“Rural development and urban development go together, and until we get those dynamics right, making sure we develop our urban areas at the same time as we develop our rural areas, we won’t be able to achieve much” — Godwin Ezeemo Let me start by stepping back for a moment. I would like to remind all of us why urbanization, and in particular, integrated urban-rural development matters. Getting urbanization and rural development right is essentially...

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Release of Nigerian School Boys: Questions and Hypotheses

ColumnsCrime & SecurityNigeriaOpinionRelease of Nigerian School Boys: Questions and Hypotheses

PilotnewsDecember 21, 2020

By John Campbell ____ The freeing of perhaps 344 boys kidnapped from a boarding school at Kankara in Katsina state is unalloyed good news. However, the foiled attempt to kidnap another eighty school children, at Dandume in the same state a few days later on December 19, highlights the iniquitousness of criminal gang activity. As for the now-freed Kankara victims, many questions remain. Just how many were kidnapped, how many escaped, how many were released, and how many (if any)...

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Dynasty of Biden and Harris: I Finally Found My Old Blue Jeans

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionDynasty of Biden and Harris: I Finally Found My Old Blue Jeans

PilotnewsDecember 18, 2020

“I am not afraid Trump would return. If he did, he would be shamed twice.” ―Don Okolo Unless you are a Blues lover, you couldn’t tell where I pulled that from. I know most of you know the source. But I mo’ tell ya anyway: As far as Blues and Rock fused bands go, ZZ Top takes the cake for me. Look them up and listen to this forty-six-year-old gem they titled, ‘Blue Jean Blues’...

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OPINION: What Does Restructuring Really Mean?

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsOPINION: What Does Restructuring Really Mean?

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)December 8, 2020

By Ebuka Onyekwelu Since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, various forms of agitations expressing the desires of the people of Nigeria for some structural reforms have become the mainstay of Nigeria’s democratic experience, up till date, after twenty-one long years. Conversations on resource control, propriety of state police, devolution of power, return to regionalism, local government creation, are some of the most vexatious and hotly debated areas requiring reforms. These ultimately entail constitutional...

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OPINION: Kwankwasiyya Myopic Allegation on Sell of Public Properties in Kano

ColumnsOpinionPoliticsOPINION: Kwankwasiyya Myopic Allegation on Sell of Public Properties in Kano

PilotnewsDecember 8, 2020

By Abba Dukawa ____ Funny enough, the Kwankwasiyya movement still  not realized that the movement is a paper tiger and has crumbled like a pack of cards.   Recently, the  movement in its desperate moved to remain relevant in the polity of the day  accused Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of illegally selling public properties to cronies and family members. This is nothing but  laughable threats that they would not fold arms and allow public assets to...

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Nigeria: Atrocity in the Northeast

ColumnsNational SecurityNigeriaOpinionNigeria: Atrocity in the Northeast

PilotnewsDecember 3, 2020

In response to the latest atrocity—the November 28 killing of civilians working in rice fields in villages in the Jere local government area, which is close to the Borno State capital of Maiduguri—Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum appears to be looking for Borno State and local entities to restore security. In a public statement, he did call on the federal government to recruit more troops, but his emphasis appears to have been on growing the...

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How Hath the Mighty Fallen ―Dissecting the Mystery of the Trump’s Era

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionHow Hath the Mighty Fallen ―Dissecting the Mystery of the Trump’s Era

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2020

It is safe to say that even the great United States could fall prey to a snake oil salesman.  ―Don Okolo Well, the caption above isn’t exactly true. The United States is standing on the precarious edge of tipping over into a chasm of jagged rock tips. It is swaying dangerously, but hadn’t yet fallen over…at least, not yet. The next small wind could nudge it over. Believe me, it could come. And if it...

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‘Igbos for Trump’ ― A Callous Betrayal of ‘Biafra-Haiti Ancestral Covenant’

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinion‘Igbos for Trump’ ― A Callous Betrayal of ‘Biafra-Haiti Ancestral Covenant’

PilotnewsNovember 27, 20202

Igbos forgot that it was Haiti, not Israel that stood by them, took them in, fed them throughout the three years of a failed war to sustain the Biafran nationhood.  ― Dr. Anthony Obi Ogbo I recall in 2010 when the then Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, led a Nigerian delegation, comprising the Red Cross, the private sector, the entertainment industry representatives to evaluate the level of damage by the 7.2 earthquakes that devastated Haiti....

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Unmasking the Judicial Panels of Inquiry on Police Brutality: Will There be Justice for Victims?

ColumnsLaw & JusticeNigeriaOpinionUnmasking the Judicial Panels of Inquiry on Police Brutality: Will There be Justice for Victims?

PilotnewsNovember 24, 2020

At this stage, it is my considered opinion that no officer of the police force is likely going to be punished for abusing or brutalizing citizens.  ―Ebuka Onyekwelu The ongoing hearing on police brutality at the various states of the federation is nothing profound or in the least, significant, for the simple reason that it is increasing difficult to exonerate Nigeria from various forms of violations suffered by its citizens. Much so to the extent...

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Mali’s Amadou Touré and the Conundrum of African Leadership

ColumnsOpinionPoliticsWest AfricaMali’s Amadou Touré and the Conundrum of African Leadership

PilotnewsNovember 21, 2020

Amadou Touré, coup maker, coup victim, military ruler, and eventually civilian chief of state in Mali, died last week in Istanbul at the age of seventy-two. Touré dominated Mali’s governance for some twenty years and, in death, is being praised as a “soldier of democracy.” Following his successful 1991 coup against Moussa Traoré, military ruler for thirteen years, Touré orchestrated a transition to elections and civilian government. In 2002 he was elected president and, in 2007, reelected....

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