PROTEST: FG Prohibits #OccupyLekkiTollGate# Protest Over Security Report

Law & JusticePeoplePROTEST: FG Prohibits #OccupyLekkiTollGate# Protest Over Security Report

PilotnewsFebruary 11, 2021

ABUJA — The Federal Government has prohibited the #Occupy Lekki Toll Gate protest scheduled for Saturday over intelligence report that it will be hijacked and used to destabilise the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this on Thursday in Abuja at a media briefing to address issues on the proposed protest. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some #EndSars protest proponents have given notice of their plan to...

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FIDA Intensifies Advocacy On Ending Harmful Traditional Practices, GBV

Culture & TraditionLaw & JusticeNewsFIDA Intensifies Advocacy On Ending Harmful Traditional Practices, GBV

PilotnewsFebruary 11, 2021

ABUJA — The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) says it has intensified advocacy toward ending harmful traditional practices and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in all local government areas of the country. Harmful traditional practices are forms of violence committed against women and girls for so long that they are considered or presented by perpetrators as part of accepted cultural practice. The National President of FIDA, Rhoda Tyoden, told the News Agency of...

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Like Hongkong Like Lagos – A Comparative Perspective to Protest in Two Cities

Law & JusticeNewsLike Hongkong Like Lagos – A Comparative Perspective to Protest in Two Cities

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 9, 2021

Although the objective of the ongoing protest in Hongkong, the commercial city of China is quite different from the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. However, the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria has certain features that can be linked to that of the Hongkong protest. This really interpreted that although humans might be different in color but the illustrated narrative of the quest for freedom is a universal clamor as the act of oppression is embedded in humans,...

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POLICE: Minister Explains Why Buhari Extend IGP’s Tenure by Three Months

Law & JusticeNewsPOLICE: Minister Explains Why Buhari Extend IGP’s Tenure by Three Months

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 5, 2021

Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, on Thursday, explained why President Muhammadu Buhari decided to extend the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, for three months. He said it was “to allow for a robust and efficient process of appointing a new IGP.” The minister said this in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Remember that the tenure of Adamu should have expired on Monday when he...

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Fraud : Pastor Deceived Me to Sell My Only House, Jilted Evangelist Tells Yola Court

Law & JusticeLifestyleFraud : Pastor Deceived Me to Sell My Only House, Jilted Evangelist Tells Yola Court

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)February 5, 2021

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz,  Regional Correspondent ______ A  female evangelist who was allegedly jilted by her fiancee and pastor of Fire House Revival Ministry, Kwanye Tumba has told an area criminal court II sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, that her ex-fiancee, Pastor Marwa Tumba deceived her with a marriage proposal, squandered her money and later ended up frustrating her life. The distraught looking evangelist had 2 weeks ago sued the Pastor and said she first...

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Man Bags 66 Months Imprisonment for Human Trafficking

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsMan Bags 66 Months Imprisonment for Human Trafficking

PilotnewsFebruary 4, 2021

KATSINA  — The Federal High Court sitting in Katsina has sentenced one Muyeedeen Jamilu, 42, to five and a half years’ imprisonment for trafficking in persons. Jamilu, a resident of Brigade quarters in Kano, was accused of procuring illegal entry for 11 youths, comprising 10 female and one male to go to Libya, but were arrested while en route from Kano, through Kwangwalam border in Katsina state, on Nov. 30, 2020, by the Joint Taskforce...

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Two Google Engineers Resign Over Firing of AI Ethics Researcher Timnit Gebru

LabourLaw & JusticeTechnologyUnited StatesTwo Google Engineers Resign Over Firing of AI Ethics Researcher Timnit Gebru

PilotnewsFebruary 4, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet Inc’s Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity and ethics. David Baker, a director focused on user safety, left Google last month after 16 years because Gebru’s exit “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler,” he said in a letter seen by Reuters. Baker added, “We cannot...

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Lekki Shooting: Reddington Hospital Confirms Treatment Of Victims, Nigerians React

Law & JusticeNewsLekki Shooting: Reddington Hospital Confirms Treatment Of Victims, Nigerians React

Beloved John (Staff Writer)February 1, 2021

Several reactions have trailed the testimony of Reddington Hospital on the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2020, which halted the two weeks long demonstration against Police brutality. On Saturday, during cross-examination with the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Dr. Babajide Lawson, a physician with Reddington Hospital confirmed to the panel that the victims of the shooting were treated in the hospital facility. His testimony countered that of the military who claimed that no...

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Nigerian Correctional Service Trains 119 Inmates In Vocational Skills

EducationJobsLaw & JusticeNewsNigerian Correctional Service Trains 119 Inmates In Vocational Skills

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 30, 2021

The Gombe State command, Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) says about 119 inmates have undergone vocational skills training in two custodial centres in the state. There are 1, 260 inmates in the five custodial centres in Gombe, Tula, Billiri, Cham, and Bajoga facilities with 697 inmates awaiting trials. Mohammed Sharu, the state controller of NCS, said in an interview with newsmen that the nine-month training was part of efforts to reform inmates. According to him, Gombe...

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NDLEA Seizes 581.702kg of Exhibits, Arrests 43 Suspects In Kano

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaNDLEA Seizes 581.702kg of Exhibits, Arrests 43 Suspects In Kano

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 30, 2021

KANO  —  The Kano state Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 43 suspected drug traffickers in January 2020. Dr. Ibrahim Abdul, the NDLEA Commander in the state, in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Kano, said the suspects were arrested in various locations in the state following intensive operations carried out by the officers of the command. Abdul explained that during their various operations, the command intercepted 581.702...

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