Insecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

NewsNigeriaInsecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 18, 2021

Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State restated that Governors of the Northern states would protect the lives and properties of everyone living in their areas of jurisdiction no matter where he comes from. The Governor disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in the Government House Yola shortly after condoling with Governor Umaru Fintiri over the recent death of some prominent sons and daughters of Adamawa. He called on their colleagues especially in the...

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Kidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

LocalNewsNigeriaKidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

The Niger state government has shut down all boarding schools in four local government areas (LGAs). The affected LGAs are Rafi, Munya, Mariga and Shiroro. The closure of the schools follows the abduction of school children at the Government Science College (GSC), Kagara in the early hours of Wednesday. Governor Sani Bello of the state gave the order at a press conference, called for clam from parents and relatives of the abducted schoolchildren. He called...

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No Plans to Increase Petrol Price -NNPC Assures Organised Labour, Others

BusinessLabourNewsNigeriaNo Plans to Increase Petrol Price -NNPC Assures Organised Labour, Others

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation  (NNPC) has assured Organised labour and Nigerians that there will be no increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as Petrol in the month of February. The corporation gave the assurance in a statement signed by its spokesman Dr Kennie Obateru in Abuja, on Thursday. “In spite of the rise in the price of crude oil in the international market, NNPC has ruled out...

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

EssayWorldWorld NewsNgozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

PilotnewsFebruary 17, 2021

by John Campbell Culled from The Council on Foreign Relations When Robert Azevedo stepped down last year from the post of director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the trade body’s top leadership position, former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala quickly became the universal favorite to land the job—except for among members of the Trump administration. Because the WTO operates on the basis of consensus, the Trump administration’s opposition effectively vetoed her in favor of the current South Korean Trade...

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Buhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBuhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Gunmen have killed a student and abducted 27 others in a night-time raid on their boarding school at Government Science Secondary School, Kagara Niger state in the North-central Nigeria. Niger state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello who confirmed the incident said three members of staff and 12 of their relatives were also abducted. The Principal of the school Danasabe Ubaidu, said about 600 boys were asleep in their dormitories when the school during the raid. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu...

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Government to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaGovernment to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Police Affairs said machinery had been set in motion to install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras on all major highways across the country as a measure towards curtailing kidnapping. He said the project would be a public-private partnership scheme. Dingyadi on Channels Television breakfast programme, “Sunrise Daily” said “President Muhammadu Buhari already gave approval for the project, and an agreement had been brokered with NPS Technology Company to revamp an abandoned...

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INEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

The National Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, disclosed that as of February 15, the commission had received 9,777 requests from across the country for the establishment of additional polling units. Yakubu made the disclosure when he visited the offices of the Arewa Consultative Forum office, in Kaduna, for consultation on creating additional polling units in the country. He said the requests, which were 5,700 as of October, 2020, had...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 20211

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This concludes a rejoinder by this Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, who made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. Indeed the action...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. ___________ In the first part of an article...

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Femi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

NigeriaOpinionPoliticsFemi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...

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