#Endsars Protests: South East Leaders Resolve To Engage The Youths for Sustainable Peace…And to Set Up Funds For Victims

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPeople#Endsars Protests: South East Leaders Resolve To Engage The Youths for Sustainable Peace…And to Set Up Funds For Victims

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)October 30, 2020

The South East geo-political zone leaders on Thursday at a closed door meeting at the Government House Enugu resolved to effectively engage the youths to ensure sustainable peace in the zone as well as a glorious future for them. The Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, SEGF, and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi revealed this to newsmen at the rise of the closed door meeting. “The State Governors are committed to addressing the...

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Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric Toward Ethiopia is Indicative of a Larger Problem

AfricaColumnsForeign PolicyUnited StatesTrump’s Dangerous Rhetoric Toward Ethiopia is Indicative of a Larger Problem

PilotnewsOctober 30, 2020

Last week President Trump invited reporters to listen in on a call intended to celebrate the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel, a diplomatic achievement that comes with more than a few complications. During the course of the conversation with the Sudanese and Israeli prime ministers, the president of the United States took it upon himself to casually issue a bellicose threat to Ethiopia on behalf of Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a man...

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Blacks for Trump — An Obnoxious Case of Imbecility

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsOpinionUnited StatesBlacks for Trump — An Obnoxious Case of Imbecility

PilotnewsOctober 30, 2020

These selfish morons trivialize the blood of their forebears that have constantly watered the tree of liberty.  ― Dr. Anthony Obi Ogbo An African proverb says that a man who is not mindful of how his father died is most likely to become  victim of the exact thing that killed his father. This expression holds true when we view in awe, the deliberate ignorance, and blind emotional path many of my African American brethren are...

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Trump’s Long History of Racism, from the 1970s to 2020

NewsPoliticsUnited StatesWorld NewsTrump’s Long History of Racism, from the 1970s to 2020

PilotnewsOctober 30, 2020

If you ask President Donald Trump, he isn’t racist. On the contrary, he’s repeatedly said that he’s “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” Trump’s actual record, however, tells a very different story. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US, to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely...

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Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Catastrophe

NewsPoliticsUnited StatesTrump Administration Civil and Human Rights Catastrophe

PilotnewsOctober 30, 2020

Since Trump took office in January 2017, his administration has worked aggressively to turn back the clock on our nation’s civil and human rights progress. Here’s how. 2017 On January 27, Trump signed an executive order – the first version of his Muslim ban – that discriminated against Muslims and banned refugees. On January 31, under new Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Federal Communications Commission refused to defend critical components of its prison phone rate...

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#EndSARS: Oyo Sets Up N500m Compensation Fund for Victims of Police Brutality

Law & JusticeNewsNigeria#EndSARS: Oyo Sets Up N500m Compensation Fund for Victims of Police Brutality

Beloved John (Staff Writer)October 28, 2020

The Oyo State government has set up a 500-million-naira compensation fund for the victims of police brutality in the state. Seyi Makinde, the state governor disclosed this yesterday at a stakeholder meeting by in Ibadan, the capital city. “Let me also state that we have set up an initial Five Hundred Million Naira Compensation Fund for victims of injustice,” he said. The governor encouraged residents of the state that have suffered any form of injustice...

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Engagements with Nigerian Youths Transparent, Honest–Osinbajo

NewsNigeriaPeopleEngagements with Nigerian Youths Transparent, Honest–Osinbajo

PilotnewsOctober 28, 2020

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says engagement with the Nigerian youths has to be transparent and honest in order to build a progressive society and nation. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the Vice President received at the Presidential Villa, the executive committee of the Young Parliamentarians Forum, led by its Chairman, Simon Elisha, on Tuesday. The Vice President said that the Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) were not done on the basis...

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FG to Construct 10 New Airports — Minister

InfrastructureNewsNigeriaTravelFG to Construct 10 New Airports — Minister

PilotnewsOctober 28, 2020

The Federal Government says 10 new airports will be constructed across the country to boost civil aviation. The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, announced this on Tuesday in Abuja when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Aviation for the 2021 budget defence by the ministry and its agencies. Sirika said that the civil aviation had witnessed growth saying that the number of airports in the country had increased. “There are airports coming up...

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COVID-19: NCDC Confirms 3 Additional Deaths, 113 New Infections in Nigeria

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: NCDC Confirms 3 Additional Deaths, 113 New Infections in Nigeria

PilotnewsOctober 28, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),  has confirmed 113 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), with three additional coronavirus-related deaths in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday. The public health agency said that the new infections bring the nation’s total number of infections to 62,224. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the data released by the agency shows that 345 new patient...

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Tyranny of the Masses: Before Nigeria Slips into Anarchy

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionTyranny of the Masses: Before Nigeria Slips into Anarchy

PilotnewsOctober 28, 2020

Nigerians are governed by people who do not care so much about their basic needs, as much as they care about the luxury they enjoy with public money. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu As of now, it is clear to every discerning mind that what is going on across several states of Nigeria is no longer the #End SARS campaign, but a dangerous development that can so easily slip into chaotic anarchy. The situation as it is, can...

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