Customs Generates N13.11bn From Onne Sea Port in September – Controller

EconomyNewsNigeriaCustoms Generates N13.11bn From Onne Sea Port in September – Controller

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

The Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command, Onne Port, Rivers, says it generated over N13.11 billion in September. This is contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Ifeoma Ojekwu on Friday. The Controller of the command, Comptroller Auwal Mohammed, is quoted to have described the figure as the highest in 37 years of custom’s operations in the port. Mohammed stated that the command generated the revenue by...

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Traditional Ruler Identify Causes of Rape In The Society

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaTraditional Ruler Identify Causes of Rape In The Society

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 9, 2020

The upsurge of Rape and Gender-Based Violence cases recorded in some parts of Adamawa State have been attributed to seeking worldly materials, fading out moral decadence, lack of employment, and laxity by youths. Alhaji Muhammad Ahmad Mustapha (Cika Soro Adamawa) and the District Head Yola made the observation in an interview with the West African Pilot News at his palace in Yola, explained that “the elderly who were in the act are those seeking worldly materials...

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Harris and Pence Dodge Tough Questions in VP Debate – Experts React

ColumnsPoliticsUnited StatesHarris and Pence Dodge Tough Questions in VP Debate – Experts React

PilotnewsOctober 9, 2020

Vice presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Mike Pence sat far apart and separated by plexiglass for the only 2020 vice presidential debate, held in Utah on Oct. 7. Their exchanges were more civil than the presidential debate a week earlier, but Pence – and Harris to a lesser degree – avoided tough questions from USA Today’s Susan Page about the Supreme Court, COVID-19 response, succession and the peaceful transfer of power. Our experts were each...

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Senegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19

ColumnsCoronavirusReligionWest AfricaSenegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19

PilotnewsOctober 8, 2020

Senegal is a major center of West African Islam, and its imams, mullah, and brotherhoods are influential across the Sahel. The holy city of Touba, 120 miles east of the Senegalese capital of Dakar, is the site of a major, annual pilgrimage called the Magal, which is now underway. While no estimates are yet available as to the number of participants this year, in past years there have been as many as five million. The pilgrimage...

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Adamawa Residents Issued 10 day Ultimatum, Threatened Mass Protest Over Numan -Gombe Bad Road

InfrastructureNewsNigeriaAdamawa Residents Issued 10 day Ultimatum, Threatened Mass Protest Over Numan -Gombe Bad Road

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)October 8, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Disturbed by the deplorable Numan -Gombe  road, Adamawa residents have on Thursday  threatened to  embark on mass protest as they  issued  10 days ultimatum to APC led Federal government to fix the road. During a  virtual social media  campaign by  concerned indigenes  and motorists in the two states of Adamawa and Gombe with hash tag: # Shut Down Yola Airport #Fix Yola Gombe Road”  residents alleged that was ” preferential...

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Court Grants EFCC The Order to Freeze Lagos Speaker, Obasa, Bank Accounts

CorruptionNewsCourt Grants EFCC The Order to Freeze Lagos Speaker, Obasa, Bank Accounts

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)October 8, 2020

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has gotten the order to freeze three bank accounts belonging to the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. In a matter filed by the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Lagos, with suit number, FHC/CS/1069/2020, sought an ex-parte order to freeze three bank accounts belonging to Mr. Obasa. The bank included Standard Chartered Bank and pending the conclusion of an ongoing investigation into the...

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Bulk of Education Budget Go To Professors – Minister

EducationNewsNigeriaBulk of Education Budget Go To Professors – Minister

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 8, 2020

The minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has said bulk of money budgeted for education is spent on the 10,500 professors in the country. During an interview with The Punch, the minister stated that students leave the country to pursue higher education abroad owing to the numerous occasions of strike. On Tuesday, the National President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, hinted that students might have to endure a long-drawn strike in universities due to...

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WTO Confirms Okonjo-Iweala, One Other as DG Election Finalists

United NationsWorld NewsWTO Confirms Okonjo-Iweala, One Other as DG Election Finalists

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 8, 2020

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has announced Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as one of the finalists in the run for director-general election. Yoo Myung-hee of the Republic of Korea was shortlisted alongside Okonjo-Iweala as the second candidate in the final. Both emerged from a shortlist of five which was selected from a pool of eight candidates. At every stage of the election, member countries are required to choose a preferred candidate. David Walker, the ambassador from New...

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Senate Orders the Arrest and Prosecution of SARS Operatives Involve in Killings of Innocent Nigerians

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaSenate Orders the Arrest and Prosecution of SARS Operatives Involve in Killings of Innocent Nigerians

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)October 8, 2020

The Senate, on Wednesday, ordered the arrest and prosecution of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, popularly refers to as SARS’ operatives who were involved in the recent killings of innocent Nigerians across the country. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan stated this while ruling on the legislative resolution on the motion by Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Tinubu had drawn the attention of his colleagues to the recent extra-judicial killings and human rights abuses by the SARS Operatives...

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Lack of Recapitalization Hampers Operations of Adamawa State Homes and Savings Yola

EconomyNewsNigeriaLack of Recapitalization Hampers Operations of Adamawa State Homes and Savings Yola

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 7, 2020

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed that Mortgage banks in the country should have a capital base of two point five billion naira (N2.5b) for effective banking services. However, the new order is affecting the operations of Adamawa State Homes and Savings Yola who have only a share capital of one hundred and forty two million naira (N142m). Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Adamawa Homes and Savings Limited, Dr. Giscard Norris Stanley,...

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