NEWS ANALYSIS: COVID-19 pandemic Opportunity to Upgrade Nigeria’s Public Health Infrastructure—Osinbajo

CoronavirusHealthInfrastructureNewsNigeriaNEWS ANALYSIS: COVID-19 pandemic Opportunity to Upgrade Nigeria’s Public Health Infrastructure—Osinbajo

PilotnewsJanuary 14, 2021

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to improve on public health infrastructure in Nigeria. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice-president held a virtual meeting with top government officials and some Nigerian scientists working on public health dimensions of the pandemic. The vice-president said the pandemic also offered a platform for the training of required experts, adding that governments should be doing more in...

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D’Banj Enters 2021 With New Single “Ikebe”

EntertainmentMusicNewsNigeriaD’Banj Enters 2021 With New Single “Ikebe”

PilotnewsJanuary 14, 2021

Nigeria’s popular musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo a.k.a D’Banj says 2021 will be marked in grand style as he plans to launch his new album “Ikebe” before the end of the first quarter. D’Banj made this known in Abuja, during a listening brunch of the album, which also had other tracks like “Banga” and “Antidote”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that “Ikebe”, which literally means buttock, was produced by Nigeria’s talented producer Rexxie. D’Banj said...

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FG to Give N20,000 Cash Grant to 160,000 Poor, Vulnerable Rural Women — Minister

CoronavirusEconomyNewsNigeriaFG to Give N20,000 Cash Grant to 160,000 Poor, Vulnerable Rural Women — Minister

PilotnewsJanuary 14, 2021

The Federal Government is targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women, to benefit from the N20,000 cash grant, across the country to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruk, made the disclosure at the launch of the grant, on Wednesday, in Katsina, where 6,800 rural women would benefit. “We are targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women in Nigeria for the...

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Trump Ban Was Right But Sets Dangerous Precedent – Twitter Chief

PoliticsUnited StatesTrump Ban Was Right But Sets Dangerous Precedent – Twitter Chief

PilotnewsJanuary 14, 2021

Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended the platform’s decision to suspend U.S. President Donald Trump’s account indefinitely but also said it sets a dangerous precedent. Twitter banned the outgoing president in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob last week. “I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning, we’d take this...

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COVID-19: Anambra Records 89 New Coronavirus Cases

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: Anambra Records 89 New Coronavirus Cases

PilotnewsJanuary 14, 2021

Mr. C-Don Adinuba, Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Anambra, has urged the citizens of the state to shield themselves from the COVID-19 pandemic following its second wave in Nigeria. Adinuba made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Awka. He said the state had recorded 89 new confirmed cases of the virus in its second wave, which had brought a total of 169 confirmed cases across...

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“It’s a White Man’s World” —A reflective parody of James Brown’s legendary lyrics

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinion“It’s a White Man’s World” —A reflective parody of James Brown’s legendary lyrics

PilotnewsJanuary 13, 2021

Whether this country lives or dies is in the hands of the white race. Not in the hands of Antifa. Not with the clamoring, baying demands of BLM ―Don Okolo Indeed, it is a man’s world. Maybe, it isn’t. I couldn’t have said so, considering that I had a mother with the same abilities to challenge any man in mind and in the muscle of purpose and tenacity. Inside the constructs of strict, straight-on-the-arrow morals...

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TRIBUTE: The Man Died – Prof Ebere Onwudiwe 1952-2021

EducationNewsPeopleTRIBUTE: The Man Died – Prof Ebere Onwudiwe 1952-2021

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 13, 2021

The sky turned dark without a dot of star. No one ever thought that death could undo the man of conscience without much grey hair. We are in a period where each man fixed his eye on his feet and kindness is extended through the window without a little handshake. In the midst of the new normal, we heard the final stroke of the respected public intellectual, Professor Ebere Onwudiwe. Professor Ebere Onwudiwe is a...

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Reign of Totalitarian Madness―America under Dictatorship

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsOpinionUnited StatesReign of Totalitarian Madness―America under Dictatorship

PilotnewsJanuary 12, 2021

The only difference between Donald Trump and Idi Amin Dada —a cannibal who ruled Ugandan from 1971-79, is that Trump never cooked and ate his victims. ― Dr. Anthony Obi Ogbo How Trump Dragged America into a ‘Union of Coup Nations’ By the time I left Nigeria in the late 80s, Coup d’état did not mean anything to me. I had witnessed a lot of coups and crises and could smell them before they occurred....

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South African Billionaire Strikes Gold

NewsSouth African Billionaire Strikes Gold

PilotnewsJanuary 12, 2021

South Africans are paying tribute to tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, who has overtaken Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person. Musk, who was born and raised in Pretoria, is now worth more than US$188 billion, US$1.5 billion more than Bezos after shares in his Tesla Motors firm soared over the past week. Tesla’s value was boosted by the Democratic Party securing control of the US Senate, and it is expected to introduce tax credits...

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U.S. House Democrats Introduce Article of Impeachment Against Trump

PoliticsUnited StatesU.S. House Democrats Introduce Article of Impeachment Against Trump

PilotnewsJanuary 12, 2021

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an article of impeachment against outgoing President Donald Trump on Monday, as Republicans blocked a measure calling on Vice President Pence to remove his boss from office. The single impeachment article charges Trump with incitement of insurrection. It accuses him of stoking violence against the U.S. government after a mob of his supporters, riled up by his claims of election fraud, stormed the U.S. Capitol last week....

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