‘I Made Buhari President In 2015, It’s My Turn’, Tinubu Insists

NewsNigeriaPolitics‘I Made Buhari President In 2015, It’s My Turn’, Tinubu Insists

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 3, 2022

Ardent presidential aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has recounted his role in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as President in 2015, maintaining that it is his turn to be president in 2023. Tinubu disclosed this at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State, while addressing the APC delegates ahead of the party’s primary on Thursday. Speaking on Buhari’s victory in 2015, he said: “If not for me that stood...

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Trouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

AfricaBlogColumnsTrouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

PilotnewsJune 3, 2022

Zimbabwe’s worsening social, political, and economic landscape means trouble for the Southern Africa subregion. Conditions for the people of Zimbabwe continue to go from bad to worse. Triple-digit inflation shows no signs of slowing.  Over half of the country lives in poverty.  Its corrupt government lurches from disinterest in the population’s pain to rosy projections for growth based on pure fantasy to clumsy interventions like the recent short-lived edict banning banks from lending. Politically, the merger...

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Britain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Year On The Throne

Culture & TraditionNewsUnited KingdomBritain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Year On The Throne

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 3, 2022

Britain is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s unprecedented Platinum Jubilee, her 70th year on the throne, with all the grandeur one would expect from this 1,000-year-old institution. Queen Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne in February, and two public holidays were set aside to create a four-day weekend for nationwide events commemorating her reign from June 2-5. The four-day celebration kicked off on Thursday with the traditional ‘Trooping the Colour’ military parade in central London,...

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OPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

PilotnewsMay 31, 2022

The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus.   Insofar as the axle of political contestation in Nigeria is the struggle for power between the northern and southern elite blocs, systemic stability hinges on the moral understanding that power will rotate between the two regions. The order of succession since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic in 1999 has largely followed the logic of this entente, starting...

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Edwin Clark Asks PDP Chairman, Ayu, to Resign Over Presidential Primary

NewsNigeria ElectionsEdwin Clark Asks PDP Chairman, Ayu, to Resign Over Presidential Primary

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 31, 2022

Elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign. According to him, Ayu is no longer fit and proper to retain his position as the national chairman of the PDP. Clark, a former First Republic federal Commissioner of Information, said this in a statement on Tuesday, titled, “Resign now: You’re no longer fit to remain PDP...

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Peter Obi Promises To Return Nigeria To The Rightful Owners As He Clinches LP Presidential Ticket

NewsNigeria ElectionsPeter Obi Promises To Return Nigeria To The Rightful Owners As He Clinches LP Presidential Ticket

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 30, 2022

The former Governor of Anambra State and former People’s Democratic Stalwart, Peter Obi, has vowed that he will return Nigeria to its rightful owners after he emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has promised to return Nigeria to its rightful owners after his emergence as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He said this in his acceptance speech obtained by our correspondent...

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OPINION: Reaction to “Blasphemy” Killing Illustrates Complicated Role of Religion in Nigeria’s Democratic Transition

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionOPINION: Reaction to “Blasphemy” Killing Illustrates Complicated Role of Religion in Nigeria’s Democratic Transition

PilotnewsMay 27, 2022

Horrendous killing of college sophomore highlights the country’s ethnoreligious fault line, but interdenominational rivalry in the south is of no less moment.   All in all, reactions to the murder of Ms. Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level home economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, have exposed Nigeria’s deepest political fractures and lingering questions over citizenship, national identity, and secularity. On May 12, following disagreement over a WhatsApp voice note deemed to have been...

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Peter Obi: Between the Politics of a Delegate and the Downing Street Photoshoot

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionPeter Obi: Between the Politics of a Delegate and the Downing Street Photoshoot

PilotnewsMay 27, 20221

“Obi’s latest political move contradicts his own gospel of being indispensable, and it hurts his credibility moving forward.” Just a few days before his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was due for its national convention, Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi shocked his camp with an announcement. Mr. Obi announced his resignation from the party and also his withdrawal from the presidential race on his party’s slate. There were, however, rumors that he would join the Labour...

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Peter Obi Explains Why He Left PDP

NewsNigeria ElectionsPeter Obi Explains Why He Left PDP

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 25, 2022

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has explained that “recent developments” within the Peoples Democratic Party were responsible for his resignation from the opposition party and withdrawal from its presidential primary slated for the end of May. Obi was one of the 15 PDP presidential aspirants cleared by the Senator David Mark-led Presidential Screening Committee last month. However, the ex-governor, in a statement addressed to the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, explained that the...

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Abi You’re Not Thinking What I’m Thinking?

ColumnsFiction & PoetryLifestyleNigeriaAbi You’re Not Thinking What I’m Thinking?

PilotnewsMay 25, 2022

Is ‘brand’ a lie or a camouflage? Or should I ask: “Is camouflage a lie?”   Am I confused?   Certainly not Or Maybe.   Let’s talk about the CEO that pushes junk snack and drinks to the common man but forbids himself or his children to take them. He takes and feeds them soya milk and smoothies, instead.   But he is the CEO, isn’t it? Don’t tell me it’s for money. Or maybe...

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