IGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

The Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a leading Africa-focused public policy think tank has announced the appointments of Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu and Professor Osita Ogbu to the Institute’s Global Advisory Board. A press release made available to journalists on Thursday reads, “We are privileged to welcome these two distinguished Nigerians as members of our eminent Global Advisory Board”, said Professor Kingsley Moghalu, the Founder and President of IGET and a former Deputy Governor...

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APC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

…As Tonye Cole, State Exco Affirm Support For Tinubu The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Dayo Israel, has inaugurated the Rivers State chapter of the Jagaban Movement, a national grassroots youth mobilisation unit structured into regions, states, Local Government  Areas (LGAs) wards, and Polling Units, with the objective of mobilising young voters for Bola Tinubu, PREACH presidential candidate and other candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections. The...

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729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

NewsNigeriaPolitics729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

Ahead of the 2023 general elections!, about 729 ballot boxes, 243 voting cubicles, and 256 election bags are part of election materials destroyed in Idemili South LGA offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  as gunmen carried out a coordinated attack on the area on Wednesday. According to Dr. Queen Elizabeth Agwu, the Resident Commissioner (REC) for Anambra State, the shocking development to INEC headquarters, was contained in a statement released by Barrister Festus...

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INEC To Conduct Mock Accreditation Exercise In Lagos

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC To Conduct Mock Accreditation Exercise In Lagos

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that there would be a mock accreditation exercise in Lagos State to test the functionality of the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) ahead of the 2023 general elections. The electoral body in a press statement on Wednesday from the office of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, INEC Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje reads, “This is to announce to the general public particularly the residents of Lagos State that the...

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‘Ekwunife, PDP can’t challenge my nomination in LP’ – Umeh

NewsNigeriaPolitics‘Ekwunife, PDP can’t challenge my nomination in LP’ – Umeh

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

…says he will appeal Awka Court  judgment ‘delivered without jurisdiction’ The Labour Party (LP) standard-bearer for the Anambra Central Senatorial race, Senator Victor Umeh, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Uche Ekwunife, have no locus standi to question his nomination by LP. Umeh, a front-runner in the senatorial contest stated this in a statement he titled: “My purported disqualification from the Anambra Central District Senatorial Race”, issued in reaction to...

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Bola Tinubu’s Outing in Anambra Speaks to his Governance Prowess

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsBola Tinubu’s Outing in Anambra Speaks to his Governance Prowess

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)February 1, 2023

“By far, Anambra voters are willing to consider other candidates despite the fact that Peter Obi, their son, brother, and former two-term governor of the state, is on the ballot.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The candidate of the All Progressives Congress- APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has intensified consultations across the country ahead of the February 25th Presidential Election. On January 31st, he was in Awka the Anambra State capital, for his party’s Presidential rally. On the same...

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2023:  Disband Jagaban Army, Have Peaceful Elections, PDP Advises FG, Securuty Agencies, INEC

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023:  Disband Jagaban Army, Have Peaceful Elections, PDP Advises FG, Securuty Agencies, INEC

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Federal Government, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disband the Jagaban Army, to be able to achieve a peaceful election in 2023. PDP made this known on Arise TV on Wednesday when Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP presidential campaign spokesperson and immediate past National Spokesperson of the party, was a guest at a programme, Morning Show. According to Ologbondiyan, the party had raised the...

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NBTE Unveil Over 60 Curricula Of National Diploma, Higher National Diploma

EducationNewsNigeriaNBTE Unveil Over 60 Curricula Of National Diploma, Higher National Diploma

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 1, 2023

The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has unveiled over 60 new and reviewed curricula of the National Diploma (ND), and the Higher National Diploma (HND) curricula in the last two years. The Executive Secretary, NBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje, stated this during a public presentation of the new and reviewed ND, HND curricula, NOS and ODFeL in Abuja Tuesday. Bugaje noted that the reviewed curricula are the National Occupational Standards (NOS) and Open, Distance and...

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G-5 governors renege on the promise, fail to unveil preferred presidential candidate

NewsNigeriaPoliticsG-5 governors renege on the promise, fail to unveil preferred presidential candidate

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 1, 2023

The G-5, the aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has failed to keep to their vow to reveal their preferred presidential candidate for the 25 February election. The G-5 consists of governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. Since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential flag bearer of the PDP, the...

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Election: Buhari orders NIS to enhance border security

NewsNigeriaPoliticsElection: Buhari orders NIS to enhance border security

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 1, 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to intensify border surveillance and control ahead of the forthcoming general election. The minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola conveyed the president’s order while inaugurating the Katsina NIS command office and the roll-out of the enhanced e-passport. He said the president gave the directive to avoid the manipulation of the general elections scheduled for 25 February and 11 March by ‘foreign bodies’. “President Muhammadu Buhari has...

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