“Super Cop” Abba Kyari and the Burden of “African Standards”

ColumnsNewsOpinion“Super Cop” Abba Kyari and the Burden of “African Standards”

PilotnewsJuly 30, 2021

“Kyari’s case with the FBI is a quality test on our pride, hope, and future.” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Police Deputy Commissioner Abba Kyari is not your regular Nigerian police officer. Both on the media and in the field, he leaves the impression that he is just the best. He has been instrumental to many high-crime bursting outings. In consequence, he has gained a reputation as one that can solve difficult crime cases across Nigeria. Definitely, not...

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OPINION: Has Ethnocentrism Become Our New Illiteracy?

ColumnsCulture & TraditionOpinionOPINION: Has Ethnocentrism Become Our New Illiteracy?

PilotnewsJuly 27, 2021

In our day-to-day activities, we encounter and even contribute our dose of ethnocentric behaviour, be it religion-centred or culture-centred. In this part of the world, sometimes, it seems it comes more from religious differences than culture. For example, a bystander being approached by a fellow dedicated to performing their religious duties of introducing their faith to the ‘faithless’. Few seconds into the introduction, the bystander politely informs the dedicated of their inclusion in this faith...

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Concerning Questions over Sacking of Pastors at the Winners Chapel Church

ColumnsLifestyleOpinionRegionsConcerning Questions over Sacking of Pastors at the Winners Chapel Church

PilotnewsJuly 24, 20211

Talks and comments have emerged following the video of a pastor sacked from the Winners Chapel Church. The pastor named Pastor Peter Godwin narrated his ordeal on the AreaTV platform. An excerpt from the letter he showed, dated June 25th, 2021, reads: “Consequent upon the recent performance reviews which revealed that your Church growth index falls below expectations. “Please be informed that your services as a Pastor-in-charge are no longer required from this Commission with...

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Why Anambra Assembly May Become the New Political Battle Ground

Anambra ElectionsColumnsOpinionWhy Anambra Assembly May Become the New Political Battle Ground

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2021

“It is thoroughly doubtful that the governor’s influence will make any difference going forward” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Careful observation of the political situation in Anambra state now can very easily predict that Anambra state House of Assembly will become the new political battleground. While the outgoing government is struggling to perfect its papers, and perhaps, see if the government can get just one more budget passed for it by the Assembly, the incoming government is also...

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Umeoji’s recognition by INEC is a mockery of the APGA Reconciliation Committee

Anambra ElectionsColumnsOpinionUmeoji’s recognition by INEC is a mockery of the APGA Reconciliation Committee

PilotnewsJuly 20, 2021

There is nothing completely off the table in politics. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu The decision by INEC based on a certain Jigawa federal court judgment, to recognize the candidacy of Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji and not Prof. Chukwuma Soludo is a sort of climax in the long-standing controversy trailing APGA’s general conduct so far in the 2021 governorship election in Anambra state. For the first time in a very long while, party members and keen observers were caught...

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Rescuing the futility of APGA’s peace-reconciliation committee ―Prof. Soludo’s options

Anambra ElectionsColumnsOpinionRescuing the futility of APGA’s peace-reconciliation committee ―Prof. Soludo’s options

PilotnewsJuly 13, 2021

The APGA peace-reconciliation committee does not look like a peace committee. It looks like a campaign committee ―Ebuka Onyekwelu A look at the newly constituted committee to reconcile differences in APGA and square the warring factions reveal very clearly that it is an afterthought, perhaps, a mere committee set up solely for the purpose of just having it on record. So many things are not right with the committee, ranging from the timing to membership...

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Nigerian President Buhari Clashes With Twitter Chief Executive Dorsey

ColumnsOpinionNigerian President Buhari Clashes With Twitter Chief Executive Dorsey

PilotnewsJuly 8, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   The Buhari administration’s June ban on Twitter in Nigeria, combined with proposals within Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow the federal government to establish a “code of conduct” for Nigeria’s media to counter, among other things, “fake news,” rightly sets off alarm bells within the human rights community. Nigeria is challenged on multiple fronts: a jihadi insurrection in the North East and increasingly in the North West; quarrels over water and...

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Political Relevance of Southern Governor’s Forum to the People’s Struggles

ColumnsOpinionPoliticsPolitical Relevance of Southern Governor’s Forum to the People’s Struggles

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2021

“Clearly defined position of Southern Governors  are of mammoth benefit to the people and struggles of Southern Nigeria. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Many people are conversant with the 1914 merger of the Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria by the British, to create what country is called Nigeria as it is known. Over the years, the Southern protectorate has almost completely withered, broken down into sub-regions, and then, states. With no significant source of unification, Southern Nigeria...

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Critical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionCritical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

PilotnewsJuly 3, 2021

Two truths are told: One of them Is entirely bull-pucky ―Don Okolo I couldn’t wait another day for my mind to undo the straps holding it down. The manacles of a particular enslavement had successfully snaked through the synapses of the once intransigent, Teflon psyche to rope it firmly. Coffee and all the bourbon in the world, the usual panacea, couldn’t do it. Every effort at untying the hardened braces to grant me my freedom...

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Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

BlogNigeriaOpinionNigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

PilotnewsJuly 1, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made...

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