“Sacred abuses nailed to his mind” ―He Was Told to Man Up

Fiction & PoetryLifestyle“Sacred abuses nailed to his mind” ―He Was Told to Man Up

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2021

(Dedicated to all men who face the daily struggle of emotional marginalization in the society) Emotional waves welling up in his loins; the torrent so intense, it chokes. He needed safety and refuge; he was told to man up. Wounds and bleeds hidden in the chambers of his heart; blood of pain dripping down his chest to settle under the table of his belly, the DSS and FBIs cannot apprehend the culprit, 911 becomes a...

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Covid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

CoronavirusCovid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2021

ENUGU — The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has revealed that 2, 495, 632 eligible Nigerians have been vaccinated with the first dose while 1,370, 130 vaccinated with 1st dose have received their 2nd dose as of July 5th, 2021, the beginning of the third quarter of the year. In the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, from the breakdown on the state to state vaccination, while 184,715 persons have received the first jab...

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The Mistress, Her Escorts And The Helicopter

Fiction & PoetryNewsThe Mistress, Her Escorts And The Helicopter

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)July 5, 2021

The West African Pilot Features   By Favour Chiagozie Ebubechukwu, Staff Reporter & Features Writer   Seated on a wooden chair, there in my house, an evening came by to keep me company. She looked simple but I noticed she had some escorts. They were three in number: a rumbling cloud looking like some fairly used newspaper, a whistling and roaming breeze, and a gang of some chattering trees. They had to wait outside because my...

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Critical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionCritical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

PilotnewsJuly 3, 2021

Two truths are told: One of them Is entirely bull-pucky ―Don Okolo I couldn’t wait another day for my mind to undo the straps holding it down. The manacles of a particular enslavement had successfully snaked through the synapses of the once intransigent, Teflon psyche to rope it firmly. Coffee and all the bourbon in the world, the usual panacea, couldn’t do it. Every effort at untying the hardened braces to grant me my freedom...

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COVID-19 Delta Variant in 98 Countries, Continues to Mutate, WHO Warns

CoronavirusVaccinationCOVID-19 Delta Variant in 98 Countries, Continues to Mutate, WHO Warns

PilotnewsJuly 2, 2021

NEW YORK — World  Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Friday, urged leaders to push back against the daunting new COVID-19 surges, with increased vaccination efforts and public health measures. Ghebreyesus warned that with Delta variant was quickly becoming the dominant strain in many countries, saying: “we are in a very dangerous period of the pandemic’’ “In those countries with low COVID-19 vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm....

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UK’s Guide on “Consular Assistance” Reveals Britain Can’t Get Nnamdi Kanu out of Jail

Foreign PolicyNigeriaUnited KingdomUK’s Guide on “Consular Assistance” Reveals Britain Can’t Get Nnamdi Kanu out of Jail

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 2, 2021

The United Kingdom (UK)’s guide for the support for British Nationals has revealed that the Queen’s country cannot get nationals out of prisons abroad. The document has, therefore, dashed the hope of Kingsley Kanu, a brother of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who has called on the UK Government to secure the release of his sibling. Kanu, who was born on September 25, 1967, holds both Nigerian...

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Federal Government Accuses Kanu Of Killing 60 Persons, Destruction Of Property In 55 Violent Attacks

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleFederal Government Accuses Kanu Of Killing 60 Persons, Destruction Of Property In 55 Violent Attacks

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 1, 2021

ABUJA — The Federal Government has accused Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of orchestrating the killing of 60 persons and the destruction of property in 55 violent attacks across the South East and South-South Zones within four months. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Federal Government stated this in a letter dated April 26, 2021 to western diplomats. In the letter, the Nigerian government detailed the atrocities allegedly...

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Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

BlogNigeriaOpinionNigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

PilotnewsJuly 1, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made...

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World Igbo Congress Cautions FG on the Safety of Nnamdi Kanu

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaWorld Igbo Congress Cautions FG on the Safety of Nnamdi Kanu

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 30, 2021

The World Igbo Congress (WIC) has cautioned the Nigerian authorities on the safety of the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB, Nnamdi Kani. The WIC maintained that the rights of the secessionist leader must be protected. In 2017, Kanu jumped bail but was rearrested and brought back to Nigeria on Tuesday. He is facing treason charges and was remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) as directed...

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Federal Government Ban Travelers From Four Countries Into Nigeria

CoronavirusTravelFederal Government Ban Travelers From Four Countries Into Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 29, 2021

The Federal Government has banned travelers from South Africa, Brazil, India, and Turkey by one month due to the rising COVID-19 cases there. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this in Abuja on Monday at the briefing of the committee. “The four major variants of concern are now classified as Alpha (UK), Beta (SA); Gamma (Brazil) and Delta (India). The Delta variant which...

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