COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

ColumnsCoronavirusOpinionCOVID-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...

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Becoming An Author Is A Beast–But You Must Shoot Strategically

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionBecoming 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...

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Key Lessons from Abba Kyari’s Death

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionKey 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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Tribute to Kyari: “Nigerians will look back in years to come and see that he was truly the Best Man”

NigeriaOpinionTribute to Kyari: “Nigerians will look back in years to come and see that he was truly the Best Man”

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

By Hon. Geoffrey Onyeama I first met Abba Kyari in 1977 at Warwick University in England. I had gone there to do law as a second first degree. He had come to do a degree in sociology. I had a pending application to do Law at Cambridge and when the result of that application came and it was positive, I left Warwick during the second semester. But my five months at Warwick was enough to...

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Imagining Nigeria After COVID-19: A Time for Bold Leadership

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionImagining Nigeria After COVID-19: A Time for Bold Leadership

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

How will history judge Nigeria’s leaders?  History will judge them harshly for inaction, for sycophancy, for malfeasance, for causing the death of hope in a nation that’s mourning an ignoble tradition. The dearth of political leadership continues to impact the daily overall social condition for both the rich and poor in Nigeria. The five years of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration and the past few months of the coronavirus pandemic have exposed just how much a...

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Abba Kyari: Everyone Will Die One Day ─ So What?

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionAbba Kyari: Everyone Will Die One Day ─ So What?

PilotnewsApril 19, 2020

The mentality of victims of the social system during a pandemic invokes a persistent sense of vulnerability to their oppressive leaders, nonparticipation in the civic process, distrust of the system, and often thoughts of negativity. With such a hopeless mindset, it is excusable when they are excited over the death of those who gradually drowned them into the darkest sea of social wretchedness. Anytime a dictator or an oppressor dies, there are often three major...

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If Covid-19 is Not Beaten in Africa it Will Return to Haunt Us all

AfricaCoronavirusOpinionIf Covid-19 is Not Beaten in Africa it Will Return to Haunt Us all

PilotnewsApril 17, 2020

Only a global victory can end this pandemic, not a temporary rich countries’ win. By Abiy Ahmed The writer is prime minister of Ethiopia and the 2019 Nobel Peace prize laureate There is a major flaw in the strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Advanced economies are unveiling unprecedented economic stimulus packages. African countries, by contrast, lack the wherewithal to make similarly meaningful interventions. Yet if the virus is not defeated in Africa, it will...

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COVID-19 Fallout: Nigeria and China Bilateral Relations on Test

ColumnsNewsOpinionCOVID-19 Fallout: Nigeria and China Bilateral Relations on Test

PilotnewsApril 16, 2020

This flourishing relationship has been subjected to test by COVID-19 fallout. First, there were many videos of atrocious dehumanization by Chinese and Chinese authorities against Africans and Nigerians. Profitable relationship on international arena thrives on mutual respect or mutual fear. At every point, there must be balance either in terms of respect or in terms of fear. International politics is a game of interest, and nobody wants to lose or be in an underprivileged position....

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COVID-19: Why Many Nigerians May Not Survive the Lockdown

CoronavirusNewsOpinionCOVID-19: Why Many Nigerians May Not Survive the Lockdown

PilotnewsApril 14, 2020

Nigeria as a nation in custody has sunk into its sunset with the advent of the Coronavirus, also called COVID-19. This sunset of tragedy is inevitable in Nigeria considering that many Nigerians solely rely on daily incomes. Also, because the number one measure of curbing the COVID-19 is to maintain social distancing. The government, on the other hand, is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that social distancing is being enforced and adhered to by...

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Social Uncertainty as COVID-19 Lockdown Invokes Nigeria’s Deteriorating Security System

ColumnsNewsOpinionSocial Uncertainty as COVID-19 Lockdown Invokes Nigeria’s Deteriorating Security System

PilotnewsApril 13, 2020

In the past week, the rise in reports of armed robberies, gang attacks, burglary, has exponentially increased, with Lagos and Ogun states, topping the list. Similarly, there are reports in Nnewi, Anambra State, Aba in Abia State, and Onitsha, Anambra state. The security situation in Nigeria has become unstable, especially with the fight against insurgency in the northern parts of the country. In southern Nigerian, however, the insecurity is not notably different, as kidnapping for...

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