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Columns Nigeria OpinionOPINION: COVID-19: Lessons on Nigeria’s Quest for Restructuring

PilotnewsMay 1, 2020

Once again, the argument for a restructured Nigeria appears plausible as states frantically search for their best response in managing COVID-19 in line with each state’s standing with the deadly virus. Nigeria so far has recorded over one thousand, three hundred confirmed cases, with about forty deaths. Looking at the demographics in states, one sees that the virus did not adopt Nigeria’s federal character in its spread. Instead, it is spreading according to how predisposed...

Columns Nigeria OpinionIs Anambra State Government Right in Relaxing the Lockdown?

PilotnewsApril 27, 2020

Anambra state government just announced its decision to relax the lockdown and stay at home order, which has been on for over four weeks. Within these weeks, Anambra recorded only one case of COVID-19 positive, tens of contacts were also traced to the index case. Nonetheless, last week the index case was released after testing negative to coronavirus twice. In his address four days ago, the governor of Anambra state Chief Willie Obiano had said...

Columns Nigeria OpinionCOVID-19 and Crude Business – Nigeria there is a Problem

PilotnewsApril 27, 2020

If you are a state governor in Nigeria and you are not already working round the clock, night and day, you are playing with fire. Red-hot, napalm FIRE! Here is your reality. Bonny Light (Nigeria’s crude oil) is trading at about $11. This is half the cost of producing the barrel. Even at that price, Nigeria is not able to sell her crude oil. She has tens of millions of barrels of crude oil in...

Columns Nigeria Opinion PoliticsDr. Tony Nwaezeigwe’s “Denial Of Igbo Identity–The Ikwerre Were Right,” A Rejoinder

PilotnewsApril 26, 2020

Tony Nwaezeigwe is doing exculpatory narrative. There is no other meaningful way to explain it. For him, the Igbo of the west bear no responsibility for the situation of the Igbo. Just the Igbo of the so-called South East who are confused and without leadership. This branch of the Igbo is the main problem. Therefore, as a result of the incoherence of the heartland Igbo, people who were once Igbo have a right to carve...

Nigeria Opinion PoliticsDenial Of Igbo Identity-The Ikwere Were Right

PilotnewsApril 25, 20201

In Igbo cosmology of identity definition, a family of criminals does not stand for a family without good persons but a family where the hell criminals predominate and the good ones are unable to act to remedy the bad reputation of the family. This is idiomatically expressed in the Igbo saying: Ofu aka luta mmanu ozuo ora aka onu—“when one finger touches the palm oil it spreads to the rest.” That the Igbo as a...

Columns Coronavirus Nigeria OpinionCOVID-19, Social Distancing and the Typical Nigeria Market

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

Precautionary measures outlined by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, and awareness level of the dreadful coronavirus may be compromised by years of unhygienic practices and the state of markets in the nation. A typical market in Nigeria has lock-up stalls built by the government and sold to a few privileged ones while the majority are seen hawking their products which they either carry on their head or wheelbarrows. These markets know no barrier...

Africa Coronavirus OpinionThe Coming of Age of the Africa Centers for Disease Control

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries’ unique challenges demand a regional response from an institution with the medical expertise to address its needs and leverage its strengths—the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). On April 2, 2020, the World Bank Group approved its largest-ever support facility in response to an emergency. The first group of projects through its dedicated, fast-track facility for COVID-19 response provided $1.9 billion for 25...

Columns Coronavirus OpinionCOVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Isolation from COVID-19 pandemic calls for resourcefulness: engagement and ways to encourage exercising the mind and body. _____ Many nations, including Nigeria, are on lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus. This brings to mind that we had been enjoying the privilege of liberty all along without even knowing it! The powerful is shaken, and the vulnerable weakened even the more. States closed their borders to forestall movement of persons. Except for the medical sector...

Columns Don Okolo OpinionBecoming An Author Is A Beast–But You Must Shoot Strategically

PilotnewsApril 22, 2020

Writers aren’t born…they are self-made. Creative writers are therefore nurtured and cultured by self. Most writers I know carry a portable/digital recorder back in the days of yore. Today, it is in their hands. They carry it around all day, drive and text on it, and text some more even as the Professor is standing before them, wafting poetic. They sleep with this modern day contraption, and only record those moments with pure disdain for...

Columns Nigeria OpinionKey Lessons from Abba Kyari’s Death

PilotnewsApril 20, 2020

Millions of Nigerians are celebrating the death of Abba Kyari, in a most dramatic and downright startling manner. I have thought about Kyari as a person and how power can shape people, and this is what I believe: Perhaps, any one of us could become tomorrow’s Kyari, who was lured, exalted, and killed twice, by power. That is, any of these Nigerians jubilating over the death of Kyari could become the very person that every...

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