Panel Rejects Magu’s Letter of Explanation on the Auctioning of Recovered Vehicles

CorruptionLaw & JusticeNewsPanel Rejects Magu’s Letter of Explanation on the Auctioning of Recovered Vehicles

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 22, 2020

The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has written a letter to the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel, explaining the allegation on illegal auctioning of recovered vehicles. Magu explained how some of the recovered vehicles were auctioned ‘Re: Alleged Case of Conspiracy, Enrichment, Abuse of Public Office and Other Infractions.’ In the letter, Magu explained that some of the vehicles recovered by the EFCC were autioned to the Presidential Villa,...

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Presidency Responds to Senate’s Demand Over Call for Service Chiefs Resignation

National SecurityNewsPresidency Responds to Senate’s Demand Over Call for Service Chiefs Resignation

Beloved John (Staff Writer)July 22, 2020

The Presidency has responded to a resolution by the Senate demanding the sack of Service Chiefs of the country. In a tweet, the presidency responded to the resignation call, saying the power to sack or appoint the service chiefs lies with the President. “The Presidency notes today’s Senate resolution and reiterates that appointment or sack of Service Chiefs is a Presidential prerogative. “President Buhari, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, will do...

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FG Rejects Senate Demand for Military Chiefs to Step Down

National SecurityNewsPoliticsFG Rejects Senate Demand for Military Chiefs to Step Down

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 21, 2020

The Federal Government and the Senate arm of the National Assembly, today, argued over the exit of military service chiefs in the country. It began with the Senate, during plenary, asking military service chiefs to step down in order to allow the security architecture of the country to be restructured. Senator Francis Fadahunsi, representing Osun East Senatorial District moved and amendment to an existing motion by Senator Ali Ndume that all service chiefs should step...

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Insecurity: Senate Asks Military Chiefs to Step Aside

National SecurityNewsInsecurity: Senate Asks Military Chiefs to Step Aside

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 21, 2020

The Nigeria Senate on Tuesday asked the service chiefs to step aside following the killings of Nigerian soldiers who were at the war front with insurgency and banditry in some part of Northern Nigeria. The motion was proposed on the Senate Floor via a point of order, moved by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume. Senators who contributed the motion lamented the implication of the disturbing development, stressing that it...

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Police Arrest Suspect in the Murder of Gokada CEO, Fahim Saleh

Law & JusticeNewsPolice Arrest Suspect in the Murder of Gokada CEO, Fahim Saleh

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

The hunt for the suspect in the brutal killing of Fahim Saleh, the CEO of Gokada, has paid off. The former personal assistant of the 33-year-old tech start-up founder was arrested on Friday morning and is expected to be charged for the killing, the New York Times reported citing some officials. The suspect, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, began working for Mr Saleh since the age of 16 and would be charged with second degree murder...

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The Prospect of Local Policing Amid Security Breakdown in Nigeria

National SecurityNigeriaOpinionThe Prospect of Local Policing Amid Security Breakdown in Nigeria

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

Personal security is rapidly deteriorating in Nigeria. There is the Boko Haram insurrection in the northeast, unrest in the southern oil patch, and conflict over water and land in the middle of the country. Many of these challenges are long-standing. Adding to the list of security crises is a nationwide crime wave involving kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling, and home invasions. Such crimes have long existed in one part of the country or another, but...

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Asante, Ouattara Reelected ECOWAS Court’s President, Vice

Law & JusticeWest AfricaAsante, Ouattara Reelected ECOWAS Court’s President, Vice

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

The President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Justice Edward Asante has been re-elected for a second term of two years by the team of five judges of the Court. A statement issued by the court on Friday, said that during the election that was conducted on Wednesday, the Vice President of the court, Justice Gberi-be Ouattara, was also re-elected for another term of two years. Reacting to his re-election, Asante commended his colleagues...

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The Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

National SecurityNewsSpecial ReportThe Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

Boko Haram is said by the Nigerian government officials to be ‘technically defeated’, but recent incidents portray an adversary on a rampage and an unending bloody nightmare for the military since the civil war. Adeola Oladipupo, The West African Pilot News Correspondent, writes. It was founded in the Northeast state of Borno in 2002 by an Islamic cleric, Mallam Muhammed Yusuf, as a Salafi movement, part of Sunni Islam, which wanted a state that would...

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Military Airstrike Hits Terrorists’ Camp, Kills Scores in Borno

National SecurityNewsNigeriaMilitary Airstrike Hits Terrorists’ Camp, Kills Scores in Borno

PilotnewsJuly 16, 2020

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed a Boko Haram camp in Borno, killing several terrorists in a massive airstrike on July 15. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Thursday, said the air raid took place at Ngwuri Gana along the Gulumba Gana-Kumshe axis of the state. Enenche said the air operation was in continuation of the sustained offensive against terrorists elements...

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U.S. Bows to Pressure, Rescinds Policy Targeting Foreign Students

EducationForeign PolicyWorld NewsU.S. Bows to Pressure, Rescinds Policy Targeting Foreign Students

PilotnewsJuly 16, 2020

The United States has rescinded its recent immigration policy requiring foreign students to leave the country if all their classes were to be taught online. U.S. District Judge in Massachusetts, Allison Burroughs, announced this on Tuesday at a court hearing on a suit filed by two higher institutions against the policy. Burroughs said the government had reached a settlement with the plaintiffs, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to revert back to...

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