Reno Omokri’s “The Greatest Love of All…” Every Community Has A Candace Owens

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionReno Omokri’s “The Greatest Love of All…” Every Community Has A Candace Owens

PilotnewsJune 9, 2020

“You kept your knee on our neck. We had creative skills, but we couldn’t get your knee off our neck. It’s time for us in George’s name to stand up and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks.’” – Rev. Al Sharpton Even the dead knows what is going on right now, that the world has been busy, taking the knee for George Floyd. From the streets, states, and counties, to nation-states, and at the...

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The Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionThe Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child

PilotnewsMay 30, 2020

Yet, here I am still standing, pledging allegiance to NIGERIA with all sense of patriotism—a nation still being governed by some of the leaders that masterminded the devastating genocide I survived 53 years ago. Evacuating a large family from the village, Achala, to remote farmland called Eziobibi, almost twenty miles away on foot, and through near inaccessible road-paths, and under severe weather conditions was not a joke. I was seven at the time, and I...

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Ibrahim Gambari: Transformational Leadership and the Misconceptions of Age Politics

ColumnsNewsOpinionPoliticsIbrahim Gambari: Transformational Leadership and the Misconceptions of Age Politics

PilotnewsMay 14, 2020

One of the greatest misconceptions of Nigerians or Africans about age in leadership is being unable to differentiate age from wisdom Minutes after Professor Ibrahim A. Gambari was announced the Chief-of-Staff of Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, the social media went wild with commentaries and analysis. Professor Gambari replaces the former Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who died on April over COVID-19 complications. While the majority praised him as a level-headed intelligent leader...

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Portrait of a Nigerian COVID-19 Dictator

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsNigeriaOpinionPortrait of a Nigerian COVID-19 Dictator

PilotnewsMay 11, 2020

The basic psychology of a dictator is entrenched in unrestrained power, fear, and anxiety. Out of anxiety and paranoia, he resorts to extreme vendetta which impedes the process and permeates his ability to make rational decisions. But there is one irony about a dictatorship that people always ignore. Often, dictators are created by those that would become their victims. In Nigeria, such is the case, because the man who currently serves as the Governor of...

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Igbos and Folly of Biafra–a candid rejoinder

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionIgbos and Folly of Biafra–a candid rejoinder

PilotnewsMay 5, 2020

And I would affirm; that if the massacre of 30,000 Igbo indigenes were not enough to go to war, then the world can as well legalize genocide as a periodic sporting competition. And I would tell you, Igbos would bring home the winning trophy. As a matter of editorial principle, I avoid writing rejoinders; in life however, our actions are not just driven by values, but are sometimes triggered by unanticipated circumstances. So when Dr....

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