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ColumnsEditorialsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsWorthy of Note (1) —The Case of Bola Tinubu

PilotnewsMay 14, 2023

Contrary to what many Nigerians believe, the man known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not and was never a tribalist. He is something else. Just read along. I first knew this man in late 1998 through Okwadike Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the former Governor of Anambra State, at the beginning of the transition to democracy from military rule. My associate (actually my brother) in Nigeria had not long before at my behest paid for and acquired...

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Chris Chinwe UlasiEditorialsEducationNewsNigeria Must Not Put Schools on the Front Line of Pandemic without life-saving measures

Chris UlasiAugust 8, 2020

Federal and state government authorities should be leading the way in modeling pro-life values that put people’s health, safety and lives first. ______________ Despite the fact that Africa’s most populous country is third behind South Africa and Egypt as COVID-19 most impacted in Africa, schools across Nigeria are being asked to resume in-person classes. Daily assurances intended to ameliorate citizens’ anxiety caused by uncertainly about the pandemic can only go as far as bridging the...

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Chris Chinwe UlasiEditorialsNewsNigeriaNigeria’s Power Deal with Siemens May Resuscitate a Beleaguered Buhari Administration

Chris UlasiAugust 1, 2020

This development will come as tremendous relief to millions of Nigerian who suffer from highly inadequate power supply to their homes or businesses. ______________ Something with potentially major transformative significance happened in Nigeria this week but it’s not getting much notice. It’s about power supply and electricity generation.  Obviously, this is not the kind of news that goes viral on social media or mainstream media. But it happened. And though President Mohammadu Buhari was never...

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ColumnsEditorialsNigeriaOpinionHuman Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Disecting this strange phenomenon of hundreds of teenage Northern boys, no girls among them, hiding among cattle in trailers, others in minibusses, traveling in the dead of night, trying to sneak into Yorubaland but more especially into the Southeast and South-South zones. For those unfamiliar with Homer’s tome the Iliad, the mythological story of the ten-year siege by forces from a coalition of Greek states circa 670 B.C. against the city-state of Troy, this saying...

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CoronavirusEditorialsNewsNigeriaAmid Mounting Speculation, Kano says Deaths of Prominent Individuals is Not Due to Covid-19

PilotnewsApril 27, 2020

Speculation is still brewing over the mysterious cases of death of many prominent Kano state citizens and residents floating around the media landscape. Last week, the West African Pilot News (WAP) received reports which described grave happenings in Kano, one of Nigeria’s largest commercial and important historic cities. The names on the casualty list read like a roll call of the top echelon of the northern political elite. Enough to call attention to not only...

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EditorialsNewsFareed Zakaria’s Predictions Logically Convey Africa’s Sociopolitical Uncertainty

PilotnewsApril 9, 2020

Fareed Zakaria is an Indian born American popular TV host of a weekly CNN program (Fareed Zakaria GPS) where global issues are discussed and analyzed. While he is considered by some as opinionated others think that he is an unbiased analyst who focuses on issues without prejudice. His two recent discussions on issues concerning Africans especially West Africans with emphasis on Nigerians have further elicited the argument if he is rational or if he is...

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EditorialsMay the Lesson Be Indelibly Inscribed — We Need One Another

PilotnewsMarch 24, 2020

We’ve reached the point in the fight against coronavirus, this awful and unseen enemy, that lays bare the truth that the evangelists of self-sufficiency and libertarian excess bow before a false god. May the lesson be indelibly inscribed on the minds of the generations soon to move into positions of leadership. We need one another. Editorial by The National Catholic Reporter We’re learning a lot in this time of deep trial. We’re coming fast on an...

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EditorialsOpinionWhat is Wrong with Church Account of Rev. Fr. Edmund Nwagbala’s Death?

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

A full and timely investigation into the death of the Nnewi Catholic priest must be conducted. On November 16, 2019, Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Edmund Amobi Nwagbala, the parish priest of St. Peter’s Claver Catholic Church, Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra State, died. Today, almost two month later, we don’t know the exact cause of his death or any real details of that fateful morning and the controversies surrounding his mysterious death and the Nnewi Catholic Diocese’s...

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