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Columns News Opinion PoliticsOPINION: Nigerian Senate: A New Retirement Home?

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)May 25, 2022

Before 2011, it was uncommon for governors who have served for eight years in their states to aspire to the senate. Between 1999 and 2007, governors after serving their tenures simply moved on to something else. Most of the governors have now been forgotten. However, a handful of them have found their way into the senate between 2011 and 2019. But since 2011, it has become trendy for former governors to go to the senate....

Corruption News PoliticsOkorocha Failed to Honor Invitation, EFCC Speaks On House Invasion of Former Governor

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 25, 2022

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has given the reason why its personnel laid siege in the Abuja residence of the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, and arrested him on Tuesday. The anti-graft commission revealed that its action followed the refusal of the former governor to honor invitations after jumping the administrative bail earlier granted him by the Agency. The EFCC gave the explanation in a statement shared on its Facebook page...

Corruption News PoliticsEFCC Storms My Home With Gunmen, Breaks All Security Doors – Okorocha Says Before His Arrest

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 24, 2022

ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally arrested the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, after lying a long siege to his residence in Maitama, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Tuesday. The officers of the anti-graft agency whisked away from the embattled Senator at exactly 06:48 pm in their vehicle after breaking into his living room. Minutes before his living room was broken, Okorocha came on a live...

Columns Don Okolo Opinion PoliticsPlaying God ―Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Screwed Up

PilotnewsMay 23, 20222

“This Archbishop must truly believe that THE BODY OF CHRIST, is his to grant. I say, screw him.” ―Don Okolo Sometimes, I find myself thinking the way atheists do. Atheists must have rationalized all tidbits of data their minds feed them before every one of them concluded that there is no God. Neil Degrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, contends that if one can’t scientifically prove the existence of God, then God does not exist. A brilliant...

Accidents and Safety PoliticsBuhari Meets Families of Kano Explosion’s Victims, Says Incident Is Painful

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 23, 2022

KANO — President Muhammadu Buhari has, on Monday, met with the families of victims of the explosion in Kano, expressing his condolences and that of the country. In a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President visited Kano to officiate at the Nigerian Air Force Day and 58th Anniversary Celebration, and made a sudden move at the official programme by starting with a condolence visit to the...

PoliticsHouse of Reps Member Loses Bid to Return to Abuja for Fifth Tenure

PilotnewsMay 23, 2022

The ambition of Dr. Pat Asadu representing Nsukka/Igboeze South Federal constituency to return to the House of Representative in 2023 for the fifth time suffered a setback on Sunday. He was beaten to third place at the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary election held at Nsukka. Chief Vita Abba emerged as the winner having polled 91 votes out of the 111 votes casted at the election. The runner up Mr Clinton Isiwu scored 11 votes...

Politics ReligionCatholic Church Suspends Priest For Joining Benue Governorship Race

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 22, 2022

The Catholic Diocese of Gboko in Benue State has suspended a priest, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, for joining the 2023 gubernatorial race. Alia had, in April 2022, declared his intention to contest the 2023 governorship election in Benue State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He subsequently picked up the N50m governorship form of the All Progressives Congress and had been cleared by the ruling party to participate alongside 11 successful aspirants...

Nigeria PoliticsShekarau Defects to NNPP

PilotnewsMay 19, 2022

KANO — Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (APC -Kano) has defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Shekarau said this at a news conference in Kano. He said that he defected alongside his supporters, saying that he would seek re-election to the Senate on the NNPC platform. Shekarau said that he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the leadership of the party in the state failed to fulfil its promises of carrying alongside his supporters...

Columns Opinion PoliticsOPINION: Goodluck Jonathan’s Hidden Treasures in Aso Rock

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)May 18, 2022

In 2015, Goodluck Jonathan was clearly unwilling to leave Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of political power, but he had to leave because that was his only available option since he needed to be alive to enjoy power. The odds were against him, if not, Goodluck Jonathan, like most other political leaders, would never walk away. It is in the nature of power that those who wield it are often unwilling to let go of it...

Politics122 PDP Aspirants Vie for 25 Seats in Cross River Assembly

PilotnewsMay 17, 2022

CALABAR — A total of 122 people are seeking Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tickets to contest for the 25 seats in Cross River House of Assembly. The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Mike Ojisi, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Tuesday in Calabar. Ojisi added that 36 PDP aspirants were jostling for the state’s 11 seats in the National Assembly – Senate and House...

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