Why the Media Might Play a Major Role in Erasing Racial Discrimination

ColumnsNewsNigeriaOpinionWhy the Media Might Play a Major Role in Erasing Racial Discrimination

PilotnewsJune 17, 2020

No attention is paid at all to innovations, courageous and remarkable development in Black neighborhoods or African countries. Even when they report any, they still label it “Black excellence”, or “Black power”, which immediately demobilizes the efficacy of such attainment on the existing perception or image of Black people. ──Ebuka Onyekwelu The ongoing protests in various cities around the against racism have left kin observers with something to ponder on. What apparently remains elusive to...

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Struggling for the Soul of the All Progressive Congress

NigeriaOpinionPoliticsStruggling for the Soul of the All Progressive Congress

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

I challenge Comrade Oshiomhole to publish APC’s membership register for every state of the country. No one should push us into debate about modes of internal party elections without producing the register of voters ── Salihu Moh Lukman It is very difficult and challenging to come to terms with unfolding development in the All Progressive Congress (APC). The disconcerting reality of becoming clobbered into another undemocratic political platform, which is intolerant to basic tenets of...

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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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Insecurity in the North: Why Buhari Must Act Quickly

National SecurityNigeriaOpinionInsecurity in the North: Why Buhari Must Act Quickly

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

“A kingdom can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice” ──Usman bn fodio   In 2015 general elections one of the major promises the APC used during its campaign was the restoration of security in the northeast which at the time was the worry of every single individual in the country. Five years later, the situation has not improved, it has in fact escalated and extends to many other regions like northwest and...

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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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This Is Not Happening, Or Is It? ──A Day in the Life of a Filmmaker

ColumnsDon OkoloFilmOpinionThis Is Not Happening, Or Is It? ──A Day in the Life of a Filmmaker

PilotnewsJune 15, 2020

Twenty-twenty A.D. (Anno Domini: The year of our Lord) has already left its mark as the one year that would live notoriously in disrepute following the cascading effects of every imaginable horribleness. The seen and unseen magnets woke up one dreary day and huddled together, mano e mano (head-to-head) for a one-two punch against humanity. While humans are still reeling, trying to catch their collective breaths…all pun intended, the flame-throwers are in a two-way partner...

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Memo To The Senate President And House Speaker

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionMemo To The Senate President And House Speaker

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

Like we all know, one of the functions of the National Assembly include the making of laws, the controlling of the finances of the State, and also a critical role to check the actions of government. However, as it stands, history will judge you leaders and members for not being proactive in directing our economy towards enhancing its innate capacity of attaining self-sufficiency, the ultimate safety valve for debt dependence. So, Mr. Senate  President and...

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Nigeria Must Hit Terrorists Where It Hurts the Most

ColumnsNational SecurityNigeriaOpinionNigeria Must Hit Terrorists Where It Hurts the Most

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

All Nigerians should be vexed about the killings that have befallen the northeastern region of Nigeria and which have also penetrated other areas of the Nigerian federation.  In a series of papers presented at the NISEC Homeland Security Conference 2014, I discussed my ideas on how to combat terrorism in Nigeria.  Israeli experts and other scholars and security specialists also enunciated their own counter-terrorism initiatives in Abuja. On this subject, today, the data—as depicted by...

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21 Years of Democracy: Nigeria Celebrates Amidst Failed Security

ColumnsCrime & SecurityNigeriaOpinion21 Years of Democracy: Nigeria Celebrates Amidst Failed Security

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

Changing “Democracy Day” from May 29 to June 12 is of little significance if Nigerians are unsafe, taunted by government agents and by criminals. As Nigeria marks its twenty-one years of unbroken democracy, a closer look at specifics has become altogether unavoidable. In the light of Nigeria’s penchant for wild claims and increasing proclivity for self-congratulation even for doing nothing except maintain status quo, it has become imperative that the country’s democratic experiment over these...

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Reno Omokri’s “The Greatest Love of All…” Every Community Has A Candace Owens

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionReno Omokri’s “The Greatest Love of All…” Every Community Has A Candace Owens

PilotnewsJune 9, 2020

“You kept your knee on our neck. We had creative skills, but we couldn’t get your knee off our neck. It’s time for us in George’s name to stand up and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks.’” – Rev. Al Sharpton Even the dead knows what is going on right now, that the world has been busy, taking the knee for George Floyd. From the streets, states, and counties, to nation-states, and at the...

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