Have you Wondered Why Nigerian Big Men Have No Regards for Your Time?

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionHave you Wondered Why Nigerian Big Men Have No Regards for Your Time?

PilotnewsFebruary 19, 2021

He grants the appointments but dehumanizes the guests who are left without a word. Still, they wait. Their patience never exhausted! ―Ebuka Onyekwelu A typical successful Nigerian in business, politics, religious leadership and other spheres of influence have not to single regard for the time of people they ask to meet at home or in the office on appointment. This is one of the few areas where Nigerian elites irrespective of educational background, religious beliefs...

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Kidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

NewsNigeriaOpinionKidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

by John Campbell On February 17, a gang of “gunmen” kidnapped more than forty students, teachers, and administrators from a secondary school in Niger State. At least one student was killed. Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has appealed for assistance from President Muhammadu Buhari, who has ordered all four service chiefs to go to Niger State to coordinate rescue operations. In December, “bandits” kidnapped some three hundred schoolboys from a school in Kankara, located in Katsina State. There have been several other mass kidnappings,...

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

EssayWorldWorld NewsNgozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

PilotnewsFebruary 17, 2021

by John Campbell Culled from The Council on Foreign Relations When Robert Azevedo stepped down last year from the post of director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the trade body’s top leadership position, former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala quickly became the universal favorite to land the job—except for among members of the Trump administration. Because the WTO operates on the basis of consensus, the Trump administration’s opposition effectively vetoed her in favor of the current South Korean Trade...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 20211

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This concludes a rejoinder by this Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, who made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. Indeed the action...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. ___________ In the first part of an article...

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Femi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

NigeriaOpinionPoliticsFemi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...

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A Raging Anambra Gubernatorial Race Finally Unravels A Quintessential Statesman —The Real McCoy

ColumnsDon OkoloNigeriaOpinionA Raging Anambra Gubernatorial Race Finally Unravels A Quintessential Statesman —The Real McCoy

PilotnewsFebruary 14, 2021

“Sir Damian Chibuzo Okolo possesses the moral and ethical bearings of a monk,” ―Don Okolo Esteemed Bureaucrats, especially the elected ones, are hard to find. If a nation were lucky…as in this case, any State in this haggard nation, she would, every once in a while, haul in the quintessential Statesman, whose pottery was sculpted out of porcelain. In other words, the man or woman, who is on the straight and arrow…the one, who would...

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Nigeria’s Governance Under Siege ―Terror, Banditry Overrun Peace and Stability

ColumnsCrime & SecurityNigeriaOpinionNigeria’s Governance Under Siege ―Terror, Banditry Overrun Peace and Stability

PilotnewsFebruary 8, 2021

“ In a general term, Northern Nigeria is at the tip of becoming ungovernable,” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Bandits and terrorists are enemies of the state. They plainly set out to sabotage the most sacred quintessence of the state which is the protection of lives and properties of citizens. It is undisputed, therefore, that banditry and terrorism are two twin evils that are resolute about destroying the fabrics of the modern state as well as altering the...

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War Songs of Betrayal —Inglorious Mobs that Stormed the Capitol

ColumnsDon OkoloNigeriaOpinionWar Songs of Betrayal —Inglorious Mobs that Stormed the Capitol

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

…look in this place ran Cassius dagger through. See what a rent the envious Casca made. And through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed…’ The quote above was Mark Anthony’s. He was lamenting the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar, in the Capitol, by a bunch of Senators. When the desire to kill Caesar was baking in the mind of one Caius Cassius, he took his crazy idea for the political dethroning of Julius Caesar out to...

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OPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusOpinionOPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced that the COVID-19 case fatality rate in Africa is now 2.5 percent, higher than the worldwide level of 2.2 percent. (According to Johns Hopkins University, in the United States the rate is 1.7 percent; in New Zealand, 1.1 percent.) In twenty-one countries on the continent the case fatality rate is 3 percent or higher. Africa CDC announced that there were 207,000 new cases the week of...

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