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Special ReportSPECIAL REPORT: ’We Are All Seen As Beggars’: The Tragedy of Sokoto Children With Disability

Beloved John (Staff Writer)April 5, 2022

The sun was scorching and Hauwa, a blind girl, needed shade to rest. After a long walk around her community in Bodinga Local Government, Sokoto State, the 16-year-old, accompanied by a younger girl, decided to settle at the community filling station to catch her breath. Hauwa was standing in one corner of the station when an irritated attendant yelled at her to leave the premises. The defenseless girl who spends her time on the street...

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HealthHuman SexualitySpecial ReportNEWS ANALYSIS: Seeking Mother’s Saving Hands From all shapes of Female Genital Mutilation

PilotnewsFebruary 12, 2022

By Vivian Ihechu, Reporter Thirty-two-year-old Chinedum was excited when she discovered she was pregnant. She was in a foreign land when the baby girl came. As a fresher, Chinedum was almost clueless on how to nurse the baby. She relied on constant telephone calls from home, mostly from her mother and aunties telling her how to bathe, breastfeed and carry the baby, among other pieces of advice. One piece of instruction was constant: use petroleum...

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EnvironmentSpecial ReportSPECIAL REPORT: Concerns As Waste Threatens to Overrun Awka, the Anambra State Capital

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)January 25, 2022

AWKA — With only about two months to change of government, there are clear signs that seem to suggest that the current government has perhaps been disserted. An elegant proof of this is the attitude of government officials towards their duty. Understandably, transition comes with its own demands and pressures which tend to affect work and work pace. But even that must not subject the people and the society to incredible stress and confusion that...

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NewsSpecial ReportINTERVIEW: The 10th Memorial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu: “Vision for Ndi Igbo A Work in Progress” – Emeka Ojukwu Jnr Says

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)November 26, 2021

“2023 will be another milestone and can if properly articulated and negotiated, offer an opportunity for the emergence of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction” –Emeka Ojukwu Jnr Today, it is exactly ten years since the death of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu; a man of immense and diverse parts. In commemoration of the life and times of this larger than life entity, Chief Emeka Ojukwu Jnr, during an exclusive interview session with Ebuka Onyekwelu of the...

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PoliticsSpecial ReportANALYSIS: Direct Primaries for Political Parties May Be A Step Towards 1993 Electoral Model

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)November 16, 20211

Last week, the National Assembly passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, making it compulsory for all political parties to conduct their primaries using the direct method. Direct electoral method is not new to Nigeria, and in fact, it has been said to have been adopted in the most credible election in Nigeria, which is the 1993 election. According to African Election Database, Moshood Abiola of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP) garnered a total vote...

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Anambra ElectionsOpinionSpecial ReportOPINION: How Participatory Will Saturday’s Anambra State Governorship Election Be?

PilotnewsNovember 2, 2021

In Africa and most Third World generally, parochial political culture is usually prevalent and informs the attitude and behaviours of the people towards politics. One of the most distinguishing features of a democracy is public participation in the process of selecting leaders termed general election. However, the extent to which the public participates in this process is largely determined by preexisting political culture. In other words, an established code of conduct of the people towards...

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EducationSpecial ReportSPECIAL REPORT: Outdated Textbooks, Dearth of Materials Crippling Teaching in Public Primary Schools

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 14, 2021

By Beloved John, Staff Writer Musa’s only teaching material is the curriculum, a flat rectangular book, given to him by the headmaster of the government primary school he was employed to teach. The curriculum is the only material he could use to carry his duty. But to give life to his basic science lessons, the primary four class teacher would need a variety of instructional materials, which currently are unavailable to him. It’s been a...

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EducationNigeriaSpecial ReportNigerian Scholars Discuss the State of Education as the World Celebrates Teachers

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)October 9, 2021

Oct. 5 is recognized internationally as World Teachers’ Day to observe the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers, around the world. This event was first celebrated in 1994. To further mark this event in the editorial context, our correspondent, Favour Ebube talked to two Nigerian-based scholars, Professor Simeon Dosunmu, a Professor of Sociology of Education, Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, and Dr....

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Anthony Obi OgboNewsRegionsSpecial ReportUnited StatesSurvival in Obscurity —Tribulations of African Americans in the Pandemic

PilotnewsJuly 27, 2021

Finally, it took the pandemic to float ashore the system-induced tribulations of a population subjugated by a bigoted justice system By Anthony Obi Ogbo, Ph.D. A professor in a historically black college in Houston looked at the screen during one of his remote classes and noticed something quite unusual. Besides low classroom participation, a student could be seen in a Walmart breakroom, and another was in a car with a baby sleeping comfortably behind them...

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PoliticsSpecial ReportNEWS ANALYSIS: The Economic And Political Factors Behind 10 Governors Who Have Dissolved Cabinets In 2021

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 23, 2021

Between January and now, about ten governors have mystically sacked members of or dissolved their cabinets. The factors responsible for this process can be analyzed from two sides of the events in the country. The first was to build loyalty within their cabinets and camps ahead of the 2023 elections while the other was the economic catastrophe bedeviling the country, particularly the decision of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) not to make its statutory...

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