CJN Swears in Dongban-Mensem as President, Court of Appeal

Law & JusticeUnited StatesCJN Swears in Dongban-Mensem as President, Court of Appeal

PilotnewsJune 19, 2020

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad on Friday swore in Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, as the substantive President of the Court of Appeal. Muhammed challenged the new president to live up to expectations by maintaining cordial relationship with her colleagues on the Appeal court bench. Specifically, the CJN charged Justice Dongban-Mensem, who is the second female President to be appointed to ensure regular meetings with Presiding Justices in all divisions of the court...

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Court Orders Convict to Sweep Court Premises for 1 Month for Stealing 15 tvs, Laptops

Law & JusticeCourt Orders Convict to Sweep Court Premises for 1 Month for Stealing 15 tvs, Laptops

PilotnewsJune 17, 2020

An Area Court in Nyanya, FCT, on Wednesday ordered a 27-year-old man, Isaac Samuel, to sweep the court premises for one month for stealing 15 plasma television and laptops. The Judge, Abdullahi Ogedengbe, sentenced Samuel after he pleaded guilty to public incitement. Ogedengbe, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N5,000. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr. D.F. Abba told the court that sometimes in 2018, the convict conspired with others now...

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Dabiri-Erewa Tasks US Govt on Killing of Nigerian-American Salau

Foreign PolicyLaw & JusticeNigeriaDabiri-Erewa Tasks US Govt on Killing of Nigerian-American Salau

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Monday called on the government of the United States to ensure a thorough investigation in the alleged killing of a Nigerian, Toyin Salau. The NiDCOM chief described the alleged murder of the 19-year-old Nigerian-American Activist, Salau in the U.S as highly depressing and cruel. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr. Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Head of Media and Public Relations Unit of NiDCOM,...

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OPINION: George Floyd’s Murder Revives Anti-Colonialism in Western Europe

Law & JusticeOpinionOPINION: George Floyd’s Murder Revives Anti-Colonialism in Western Europe

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

The murder of George Floyd by a policeman and the ensuing protests against racism and police brutality in the United States have ignited similar protests in Europe. Large crowds, especially in the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, are demanding public acknowledgment of the links among slavery, European colonialism, and contemporary racism. European protesters, perhaps in solidarity with Americans, have borrowed anti-police rhetoric. But, with the exception of the French, by and large, European protestors tie racial...

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OPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

Law & JusticeOpinionRegionsReligionUnited StatesOPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

PilotnewsJune 15, 2020

The ever-expanding protests over the epidemic of police violence and systemic racism in the United States, manifested most recently in the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, have brought our society to another monumental crossroad. At the intersection of these enduring crimes against humanity and protesters of varying hues and creeds screaming, “Enough is enough,” is a global system of anti-Blackness and violence that has strangled Black communities in the United States...

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Floyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

Arts & CultureLaw & JusticeUnited StatesFloyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

NEW YORK  — Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in. “I watched them all, ‘Dragnet,’ ‘Adam 12,’ ‘The Wild, Wild West,’ ‘Mannix,’ ‘Cannon,’ ‘Peter Gunn’ reruns and on and on. Now these were white guys and they were tough but fair and even-handed,” he told The Associated Press in a recent email, referring to popular programs mostly...

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25 Prisoners Receives Pardon in Enugu State

Law & JusticeNewsNigeria25 Prisoners Receives Pardon in Enugu State

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 11, 2020

The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Thursday granted pardon to twenty-five (25) inmates in Enugu, Nsukka and Oji River Correctional Centres. The pardon was sequel to the recommendation of the Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, and in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor by “Section 212 (I) (a-d) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government...

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As Protests Grow, Belgium Faces its Racist Colonial Past

EuropeLaw & JusticeWorld NewsAs Protests Grow, Belgium Faces its Racist Colonial Past

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

TERVUREN, Belgium — When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the Belgian king who held Congo as his personal property and may have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese more than a century ago. Yet across Belgium, the monarch’s name is still found on streets and tunnels. Cities are dotted with his statues and busts, even as evidence of his misdeeds has...

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Floyd killing Finds Echoes of Abuse in South Africa, Kenya

AfricaLaw & JusticeNewsFloyd killing Finds Echoes of Abuse in South Africa, Kenya

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed against a wall, beaten, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle by the soldiers as police watched, his family says. Two months later, South Africans staged a march against police brutality. But it was mostly about the killing...

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Black Lives Matter Goes Mainstream After Floyd’s Death

Law & JusticeUnited StatesBlack Lives Matter Goes Mainstream After Floyd’s Death

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical force. Its very name enraged its foes, who countered with the slogans “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter.” Times have changed — dramatically so — as evidenced during the wave of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Black Lives Matter has gone mainstream — and black...

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