Insecurity: Air Chief Charges 1,100 Recruits on Protection of Nigeria’s Territorial Integrity

MilitaryNational SecurityNigeriaInsecurity: Air Chief Charges 1,100 Recruits on Protection of Nigeria’s Territorial Integrity

PilotnewsJune 4, 2021

KADUNA — The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, on Friday charged the 1,100 recruits of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) not to compromise in protecting and preserving the territorial integrity of the country. Amao gave the charge during the Passing Out Parade of the 1,100 Recruits of Basic Military Training Course 41 at the Military Training Center (MTC) NAF Base Kaduna. He said that they were graduating at a time when the...

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Police In Kano Apprehends 42 Thugs, 21 Drug Dealers

Crime & SecurityNigeriaPolice In Kano Apprehends 42 Thugs, 21 Drug Dealers

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 4, 2021

KANO — Kano State Police Command has arrested 42 notorious thugs (Yan Daba) and 21 drug dealers in the last two months at different locations within the metropolitan local government areas of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa disclosed this to journalists in Kano, who said a large number of assorted weapons and Illicit drugs were recovered from the suspects included tramadol tablets worth N29,940,000.00 and exol tablets valued at...

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Nigeria Is a Land Flowing With Bitterness and Sadness – Obasanjo

NewsNigeriaNigeria Is a Land Flowing With Bitterness and Sadness – Obasanjo

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 3, 2021

ABEOKUTA — Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described current Nigeria as a country presently dripping in bitterness and sadness. The former president said that even though the country was destined to be a land of flowing milk and honey, bad leadership has made its a dream not come true. Obasanjo said this on Thursday while being presented with a book titled, ‘The Man, The General, and The President,’ authored by Femmy Carrena,...

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Teachers Yet To Get New Special Salary Package, Nearly Seven Months After President’s Pronouncement

EducationJobsNigeriaTeachers Yet To Get New Special Salary Package, Nearly Seven Months After President’s Pronouncement

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2021

ABUJA — Nearly seven months after the pronouncement by President Muhammadu Buhari on the approval of a special salary scale for teachers, the implementation of the scale is yet to take effect. President Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, during the World Teachers Day celebration in October 2020 also reviewed upward their retirement age to 65 and said the approval was to take effect immediately. The president also approved the...

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Federal Govt, UNDP Set To Launch 20,000 Graduate Job Fellowship Yearly

EconomyJobsNigeriaFederal Govt, UNDP Set To Launch 20,000 Graduate Job Fellowship Yearly

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2021

ABUJA — Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other private sector partners are set to launch a 20,000 yearly graduate job fellowship to be called the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP). Osinbajo said the 12-month job fellowship programme would be flagged off by President Muhammadu Buhari and urged business leaders, captains of industry, development partners, and the diplomatic community to support the program aimed...

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Biafra’s “May 30 solemnness” is now a shameful blood-spattered rite of remembrance.

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionBiafra’s “May 30 solemnness” is now a shameful blood-spattered rite of remembrance.

PilotnewsJune 2, 2021

Desperate activists bastardize Biafra’s “May 30, sacredness” into an outrageous blood-spattered rite of remembrance. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of U.S. servicemen. America, divided by ideological differences concerning warfare, united behind a declaration of war with Japan. That is the power of communal closeness after a tragedy. Thus, the psychology of unity after tragedy remains a natural phenomenon that instills a feeling of closeness following a tragedy. It breaks down walls...

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May 30: Biafra’s Declaration Remembrance is utterly Imperative

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionMay 30: Biafra’s Declaration Remembrance is utterly Imperative

PilotnewsJune 1, 2021

“Moving on, the government must not give its citizens the impression that they are less wanted to remain part of the union”―Ebuka Onyekwelu No matter how successive Nigerian government decides to view the Biafra declaration which then led to a civil war that left no fewer than three million Easterners dead, the fact that cannot be disputed is, the event, cannot be erased in Nigeria’s existential history. And so, of all the possible cause of...

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Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, National Examination Council Prof Obioma Murdered

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaRegistrar/Chief Executive Officer, National Examination Council Prof Obioma Murdered

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 1, 2021

Unknown gunmen, on Monday night, reportedly stormed the residence of Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, National Examination Council (NECO) Prof Godswill Obioma and strangled him to death. The incident occurred one day after the murder of Ahmed Gulak an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan in Owerri, Imo state. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen in a telephone conversation on Tuesday morning that the gunmen stormed their residence Monday night, strangled her husband to death and...

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Governor Mohammed Canvasses For Creation Of Katagum State

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGovernor Mohammed Canvasses For Creation Of Katagum State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 1, 2021

Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State at the Zonal public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution has pleaded with the House of Representatives committee to consider the agitations for the creation of Katagum state, out of the present Bauchi state. The zonal public hearings are taking place simultaneously across the country’s six geopolitical zones with each zone having two centres from June 1 to June 3. The North-East has Bauchi centre, which consists...

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Discuss With IPOB, Abia Governor Urges FG

National SecurityNewsNigeriaDiscuss With IPOB, Abia Governor Urges FG

Beloved John (Staff Writer)June 1, 2021

The governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has advised that the federal government discuss with the IPOB, a pro-Biafra group. According to him, an open conversation with the IPOB as well as other similar groups across the country is a way of tackling the rising insecurity in Nigeria. The governor said this on Sunday during an interview with the Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today. Mr. Ikpeazu said the attacks were not far from terrorism and...

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