The Numbers Behind America’s 180 on Athlete Activism

ColumnsPoliticsSportsUnited StatesThe Numbers Behind America’s 180 on Athlete Activism

PilotnewsSeptember 26, 2020

For 50 dormant years – roughly, the period between Muhammad Ali’s heyday and the Miami Heat donning hoodies after Trayvon Martin’s murder – athletes, as a general rule, steered clear of politics. Teams and leagues liked it that way, as did sponsors. Why take a stand if it might cost you a customer? Fans seemed to like it that way, too. In a national survey conducted in 2016, after Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the national anthem to...

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Boko Haram Attacked Borno Convoy, Killed 15 Security Personnel

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaBoko Haram Attacked Borno Convoy, Killed 15 Security Personnel

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)September 26, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz, Regional Correspondent Following an ambush attack by suspected Boko Haram on a convoy of Borno officials travelling to Baga town, at least 15 security personnel comprising eight policemen, three soldiers, and four Civilian-JTF personnel were reportedly on Friday. The deadly attack came four days after a colonel, D.C. Bako died after another ambush by Boko Haram terrorists. The attacked officials, according to sources familiar with the attack, were heading to Baga...

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Art Protests Shine Spotlight on Post-Colonial Restitution Question

AfricaArts & CultureColumnsArt Protests Shine Spotlight on Post-Colonial Restitution Question

PilotnewsSeptember 26, 2020

Mwazulu Diyabanza, a Congolese-origin activist in France, first attracted social media attention by seeming to steal an artifact from the Quai Branly Museum in Paris to protest slavery, colonialism and the alleged French theft of Africa’s cultural patrimony. The attempted theft was carefully staged for live streaming. The museum authorities stopped the theft. In July, he repeated his protest at a museum in Marseilles. It was also live-streamed. Diyabanza is now back in the news because he, along...

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Misinformation: Over 200 SMEDAN Applicants Protest, Blocks Jimeta-Yola Road

NewsNigeriaMisinformation: Over 200 SMEDAN Applicants Protest, Blocks Jimeta-Yola Road

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 26, 2020

A two-day training organized by the Adamawa State Bureau of Public Procurement in collaboration with Charterhouse Consulting Limited for representatives of Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises across the 21 local government areas Adamawa state has witnessed a protest in Yola by applicants of Small Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Agency (SMEDAN). The protesters who barricaded Jimeta-Yola road for about one and half hours before the arrival of Policemen and Officials of the Civil Defence...

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A language Generation Program’s Ability to Write Articles, Produce Code and Compose Poetry Has Wowed Scientists

ColumnsNewsScience & TechnologyA language Generation Program’s Ability to Write Articles, Produce Code and Compose Poetry Has Wowed Scientists

PilotnewsSeptember 24, 2020

Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Chitra.” First, it culled information about “Chitra” from the internet. Then it looked at existing Wikipedia entries to learn the structure for a standard Wikipedia article. Finally, it summarized the information it had retrieved from the internet to write and publish the first version of the entry. However, our bot...

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Yoruba Nation Will Get a Blood-Free Succession – Yoruba World Congress

NewsYoruba Nation Will Get a Blood-Free Succession – Yoruba World Congress

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 24, 2020

The President-General of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Prof. Banji Akintoye, on Wednesday, said that the over 55 million Yoruba people in the South-West would get its sovereign Yoruba nation from Nigeria without breaking the law of Nigeria or shedding blood. The President-General stated this at the YWC House in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, during the remembrance celebration of the Kiriji War, which took place over 130 years ago. Akintoye said, “We have been...

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ECOWAS Court to Hear Appeals Against Mali’s Sanctions on Friday

NewsWest AfricaECOWAS Court to Hear Appeals Against Mali’s Sanctions on Friday

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 24, 2020

The ECOWAS Court of Justice will begin the hearing of the suit instituted by two Malian groups on Friday. The suit is challenging the legality of the August 18, 2020 sanction imposed on Mali shortly after the Military coup stagged against the democratic President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The statement by the media unit of the ECOWAS Court added that the suit was, on September 9, 2020, instituted by two groups, against the ECOWAS Commission and...

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NCDC Warns Second Wave Of Coronavirus in Adamawa, Call For Aggressive Test

CoronavirusNewsNCDC Warns Second Wave Of Coronavirus in Adamawa, Call For Aggressive Test

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)September 24, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz, Regional Correspondent The Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC), has warned that there is likely to be an even more devastating second wave of coronavirus in Adamawa and other states due to non-compliance to COVID-19 health guidelines. A technical adviser in the implementation of the NCDC action plan in Adamawa State, Dr. Fahad Mohammed who dropped the hint during the sensitization of officials of Nigerian Police, Civil Defense, Immigration and Correctional...

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Enugu State Inaugurates Task Force on Human Rrafficking

NewsNigeriaEnugu State Inaugurates Task Force on Human Rrafficking

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)September 24, 2020

The Enugu State Governor on Wednesday inaugurated the Enugu State Task Force on Human Trafficking. The task force was set up by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, in collaboration with state governments against human trafficking; Attorney Generals of states are the chairmen of the task force to consolidate the efforts of the agency and other stakeholders. In Enugu, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, Director General, NAPTIP led the team to the...

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Movie Theaters Are on Life Support – How Will the Film Industry Adapt?

EntertainmentFilm & TVNewsOpinionMovie Theaters Are on Life Support – How Will the Film Industry Adapt?

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Since the start of the pandemic, the film industry has been in free fall. As deaths have continued to climb, so have studio losses, with crowded theaters – once a source of collective entertainment and escapism – now seen as petri dishes for the virus. Familiar blockbuster franchises whose summer releases studios banked on to balance bleeding ledgers have been barred from shuttered theaters. The 25th James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” the 7th “Mission Impossible,”...

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