2023: Atiku Informs PDP BoT Of Presidential Bid, Seeks For Support To Clinch PDP Ticket

NewsNigeria Elections2023: Atiku Informs PDP BoT Of Presidential Bid, Seeks For Support To Clinch PDP Ticket

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 16, 2022

ABUJA — Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has intimated members of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) of his presidential ambition, saying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot afford to lose the 2023 presidential election. Atiku, who spoke when he hosted the BoT members during a consultative meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, asked the elders of the party to work with him to clinch the presidency in 2023. According to him, members of the party must...

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Mummy G.O.: Nigeria’s Much-Derided Pentecostal Preacher Enunciates a Powerful Social Critique

PeopleReligionMummy G.O.: Nigeria’s Much-Derided Pentecostal Preacher Enunciates a Powerful Social Critique

PilotnewsMarch 15, 2022

Despite the mockery she receives, Pastor Mummy G.O. is an exception to the Nigerian Pentecostal norm as her strict theological model contrasts sharply with Pentecostalism’s current adhesion to the Prosperity Gospel. Within the space of a few months, fifty-five-year-old evangelist Olufunmilayo Adebayo, popularly known as Mummy G.O., has gone from the relative obscurity of downscale Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, to the most discussed subject in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism. The target of a blizzard of savage internet memes and unrelenting...

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ASUU Extends Warning Strike By Two Months, Federal Government Reacts

EducationNewsASUU Extends Warning Strike By Two Months, Federal Government Reacts

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 14, 2022

ABUJA — The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its warning strike for months. The National President of ASUU Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who spoke to reporters after the NEC meeting held at ASUU’s National Secretariat, University of Abuja, said the roll-over strike shall commence by 12.01am on Monday, March 14, 2022. Osodeke explained that ASUU’s NEC held an emergency meeting on Sunday, March 13, 2022, and review developments since the...

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Kemi Afolabi: Eight Facts You Should Know About Lupus

HealthPeopleWellnessKemi Afolabi: Eight Facts You Should Know About Lupus

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 12, 2022

YOUR HEALTH…4 MINS WEEKEND READ Nigerian actress, Kemi Afolabi, recently opened up on her battle with Lupus, an inflammatory condition where the immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. The actress who disclosed this during an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, revealed that her doctor said she has only five years to live and she has lived one year out of that already. “I have lupus. It’s not curable. You just have to...

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Medical Doctor Narrates How A 13-Year-Old Girl Was Gang Raped By Seven Men In Lagos

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeMedical Doctor Narrates How A 13-Year-Old Girl Was Gang Raped By Seven Men In Lagos

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 11, 2022

IKEJA, (LAGOS) — A medical doctor, working at the Mirabel Centre, a sexual assault referral centre, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, narrated how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. Shogunle testified before the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed Fashola who is being charged for two counts of conspiracy and defilement of a child. Fashola had, however,...

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OPINION: Conspiracy and Mistrust Poison Congolese Politics

ColumnsOpinionPoliticsOPINION: Conspiracy and Mistrust Poison Congolese Politics

PilotnewsMarch 11, 2022

Access to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s natural resources has been largely controlled by a privileged elite, fueling mistrust and violence between competing groups. For people around the world, the past few years have painfully illuminated the toxic effect that mistrust, an inability to access reliable facts, and resulting conspiratorial thinking have on social cohesion and governance. For the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, this is familiar territory. The tremendous potential of their...

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OPINION: How Governor Obiano Will Be Remembered

ColumnsNational DevelopmentPoliticsOPINION: How Governor Obiano Will Be Remembered

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)March 11, 2022

Governor Obiano in eight years democratized political opportunities especially for young people. It is now exactly seven days before Governor Willie Obiano takes a bow. The outgoing governor in following the custom of democratic transition, has been inundated with pre-handover activities in an attempt to finish strong. However, it might have become imperative to x-ray Obiano’s performance in the past eight years and how he would be remembered. Political leaders make impressions that can be...

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Women’s Day: Beyond Social Media Pictures and Quotes

ColumnsLifestyleOpinionWomen’s Day: Beyond Social Media Pictures and Quotes

PilotnewsMarch 9, 2022

“Celebration of the Women’s Day should reflect in our thoughts, interactions and dealings, every single day of our lives” ―Favour Chiagozie Ebubechukwu It is not new to have the walls of social media splashed with pictures to depict how strong, enduring and amazing a woman is. Probably pictures of a woman hawking bread under a very sunny weather with her nose-running child strapped to her back; or pictures of a woman farming or breastfeeding her...

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Senate Throws Out Buhari’s Request to Amend Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act

NewsNigeria ElectionsSenate Throws Out Buhari’s Request to Amend Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 9, 2022

ABUJA — The Senate has rejected the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to amend section 84 of the Electoral Act. The section in question prevented the appointees of political office holders from contesting from election from party primary except they resign. The request was thrown out after the Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi of APC Kebbi North, made the lead debate for the second reading of the bill on Wednesday. The Senators kicked against it...

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OPINION: Reflections: Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Dilemmas Diplomats Face

AfricaColumnsForeign PolicyUnited StatesOPINION: Reflections: Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Dilemmas Diplomats Face

PilotnewsMarch 9, 2022

Former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Russ Feingold reflects on his time as U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other diplomatic roles he has held throughout his career. Welcome to Reflections, a bimonthly series of conversations that invites former senior U.S.-Africa policymakers to discuss difficult issues that they confronted in their careers with the benefit of hindsight. The second conversation in the series features Russ Feingold, who served...

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