2023: APC Must Allow Tinubu to Contest – Babachir Lawal

NewsPoliticsSpecial Report2023: APC Must Allow Tinubu to Contest – Babachir Lawal

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)August 23, 2020

…… Roasts Oshiomhole, Reveals Why He Was Removed As APC National Chairman A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal, says to avoid ‘’wrath of God’’  the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, must be given a chance to contest 2023 Presidency. Lawal who was sacked as SGF in October 2017 after he was indicted in N544m grass-cutting scandal, made this comment while speaking on...

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Nigeria’s Terrorism Deradicalisation Scheme Leaves Traumatised Victims With No Lifeline

NewsNigeriaSpecial ReportNigeria’s Terrorism Deradicalisation Scheme Leaves Traumatised Victims With No Lifeline

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 11, 2020

Nigeria’s decade-long war with terrorists in the Northeast is fraught with lots of controversies, but the most contentious of them is what to do with those the government has described has repentant Boko Haram members, writes the West African Pilot News correspondent Adeola Oladipupo. There are three known deradicalisation programmes in Nigeria. The programme in Kuje Prison was set up for fighters convicted of violent extremist offences, or inmates awaiting trial; the Neem Foundation owns...

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Nigeria: Two Problems and a Lesson on How to Not Run a Country

EconomyNewsSpecial ReportNigeria: Two Problems and a Lesson on How to Not Run a Country

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 1, 2020

Five months into the pandemic, Nigeria is learning the hard way that some of its unresolved problems would make recovery from COVID-19 slow and difficult. Many sectors in Nigeria have grappled with poor infrastructure for many years. A problem that has rendered many of them ineffective. Education and health are two of the most wrenched sectors in Nigeria in the wake of COVID-19. Although many had thought that the virus would be confined to Asia...

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NDDC Probe: A Maradonic Display by Akpabio is an Attempt to Confuse Facts

CorruptionNewsSpecial ReportNDDC Probe: A Maradonic Display by Akpabio is an Attempt to Confuse Facts

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 21, 2020

Aside from the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, on the allegation of reckless spending of the commission, both the Senate and the House of Representatives are currently investigating the alleged crime in the commission. However, the investigation turned dramatic yesterday as more facts and indictments were revealed. It was dramatic because the respondent fainted when he was asked to give an account of his stewardship and it...

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The Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

National SecurityNewsSpecial ReportThe Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

Boko Haram is said by the Nigerian government officials to be ‘technically defeated’, but recent incidents portray an adversary on a rampage and an unending bloody nightmare for the military since the civil war. Adeola Oladipupo, The West African Pilot News Correspondent, writes. It was founded in the Northeast state of Borno in 2002 by an Islamic cleric, Mallam Muhammed Yusuf, as a Salafi movement, part of Sunni Islam, which wanted a state that would...

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Nigeria’s Arduous Campaign to End Wild Polio Virus and the New Battle to Stay Polio-Free

HealthSpecial ReportNigeria’s Arduous Campaign to End Wild Polio Virus and the New Battle to Stay Polio-Free

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)June 29, 2020

It took Nigeria longer than other African countries to have its documents accepted by the Africa Regional Certification Committee — a step towards wild polio-free certification for the entire African region. But it is not a total victory, yet, as the battle against polio has only taken a new dimension which would require doing more to maintain a wild polio-free status. Adeola Oladipupo, The West African Pilot News Assistant Editor, writes from Lagos. LAGOS –—...

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Excessive Judicial Interference in Political Affairs is a Loss for Nigeria – Misbau A. Lateef

NewsOpinionSpecial ReportEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Excessive Judicial Interference in Political Affairs is a Loss for Nigeria – Misbau A. Lateef

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 22, 2020

Misbau Alamu LATEEF is a post-doctoral legal researcher and full-time faculty member in the Department of Business Law, Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. He has been on an invitation to Columbia University, New York, as a short-term Visiting Scholar and participant in the U.S Business Law Academy (UBLA) at the Columbia Law School. He has attended international conferences and symposia at different times at Harvard, Yale, India, Dubai, amongst others....

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An Assessment of Anambra 7th House of Assembly in its One Year in Office

NigeriaPoliticsSpecial ReportAn Assessment of Anambra 7th House of Assembly in its One Year in Office

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 13, 2020

The Anambra State House of Assembly today marks its one year in office. The 7th Anambra State House of Assembly was inaugurated on the 11th day of June 2019, with all the thirty members of the Assembly representing thirty state constituencies spread across the twenty-one Local Government Areas in the state and divided proportionally among the three senatorial zones of the state; which is to say that each senatorial zone has seven local governments. Significantly,...

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SPECIAL REPORT: Nigeria’s Faulty Institutions that Deny Rape Victims Justice

Crime & SecurityNigeriaSpecial ReportSPECIAL REPORT: Nigeria’s Faulty Institutions that Deny Rape Victims Justice

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)June 12, 2020

On the morning of 24 October 2014, 20-year-old Jane *(not real name), was happy to set out on a trip to attend her uncle’s wedding in Kogi State. By the end of that day, her crisis-free life had taken a traumatic turn — she was gang-raped by three men somewhere in Kogi State. “There was terrible traffic on the way especially around Okene, we ended up getting to Lokoja around 7:30 pm. I boarded a...

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Massacre in Northern Nigeria Involves Cattle Rustling, Jihadis, and Vigilantes

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsSpecial ReportMassacre in Northern Nigeria Involves Cattle Rustling, Jihadis, and Vigilantes

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

According to Nigerian and international media, at least eighty-one people were killed in communities in Gubio local government area (LGA). One of the villages mentioned is Felo. This number was revised upwards from sixty-nine initially reported following the governor of Borno state’s visit to the area. Seven others, including the village head, were reportedly abducted. The town of Gubio is about fifty miles north of the Borno state capital of Maiduguri. The media also reports that between four hundred and twelve hundred cattle...

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