NBC Fines Nigeria Info ₦5m Over Malafia’s Comment on Northern Governor as Boko Haram Commander

NewsNigeriaPress * MediaNBC Fines Nigeria Info ₦5m Over Malafia’s Comment on Northern Governor as Boko Haram Commander

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)August 13, 2020

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined a radio station, Nigeria Info, ₦5m over a recent comment made by the Presidential Candidate of the Africa Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Obadiah Mailaifa. The fine was contained in a statement signed by the NBC management on Thursday titled, ‘The National Broadcasting Commission Fines Nigeria Info 99.3 For Unprofessional Broadcast’. The commission recently disclosed its Reviewed Broadcasting Code in Lagos and raised the fine for hate speech from...

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UNILAG Announces New Acting Vice Chancellor

EducationNewsUNILAG Announces New Acting Vice Chancellor

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 13, 20201

The Governing Council of the University of Lagos has named Professor Theophilus Soyomno as acting Vice-Chancellor following the removal of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on Wednesday, over a series of allegations including abuse of office and financial misconduct. In a statement, the Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Oladejo Azeez, announced Prof Soyombo’s appointment and stressed that the former Vice-Chancellor was lawfully removed. “My attention has been drawn to a document circulating under the hand and...

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Demystification of Dr. Stella Immanuel’s Covid-19 Treatment Method

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionDemystification of Dr. Stella Immanuel’s Covid-19 Treatment Method

PilotnewsAugust 13, 2020

“Evidence-based medicine should not be rejected or disregarded, especially if it produces potent results after treating COVID-19 patients successfully, as Dr. Immanuel did, regardless of whether the knowledge comes from the Northern or the Southern hemisphere,” —Dr. I. D. Onwudiwe For this article, I am inspired to write about Dr. Stella Immanuel’s much-touted video on her treatment of COVID-19 patients in her medical clinic in Houston, Texas. Absent of any extensive background in the science...

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Falana, Rights Activist, Slams Obasanjo Over Comment on Kashamu’s Death

CorruptionNewsNigeriaPoliticsFalana, Rights Activist, Slams Obasanjo Over Comment on Kashamu’s Death

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)August 12, 2020

Human Rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said the former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not abuse African tradition by criticizing the late former Senator, Buruji Kashamu. However, Falana was quick to note that Obasanjo’s message was veiled with hypocrisy, saying “it is against the African culture to aid and abet a criminal suspect in his lifetime, only to turn round to attack him in his grave.” He then urged Obasanjo to “stop insulting the...

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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said there was nothing wrong with former President Obasanjo speaking ill of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu. Falana wrote in an article titled: ‘Matters arising from Chief Obasanjo’s Condolence Letter’, that the hypocrisy of the former President’s message that should be criticised. “Some people have said that it is against the African culture to speak ill of the dead. That is far from the truth. In the past, Africans spoke ill of the dead and exposed the dead and exposed the dead and exposed the dead if they were found to have engaged in abominable activities that brought shame to a community. “In fact, the bodies of dead men and women who were found to have brought pestilence to a community were buried in the bush,” Falana wrote. “Therefore, Chief Obasanjo has not abused the African culture by attacking the late Senator Buruji Kashamu for allegedly manipulating the law to escape justice at home and abroad. “However, it is the hypocrisy of his message that should be criticised because it is against the African culture to aid and abet a criminal suspect in his lifetime only to turn round to attack him in his grave.” Falana said that the evidence given by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) under President Obasanjo in 2003, in favour of Kashamu at an extradition case in the United Kingdom, enabled the late Senator to be cleared of drug charges and the extradition request by the United States was dismissed. “Thereafter, Kashamu returned to the country as a free man and was admitted to the PDP as full-fledged member. He funded the party and became a political leader. “The national leadership of the party acknowledged Kashamu’s immense financial contributions to the PDP. In 2014, as a result of political disagreements in the Ogun State chapter of the PDP to stop extolling Kashamu as a political leader because he was ‘a habitual criminal wanted abroad to face criminal charges levelled against him…’” “But following the resolution of the intra party feud, Chief Obasanjo mounted the rostrum in Ogun State, extolled Kashamu as a political leader and prayed to the Almighty God to reward him for his generosity,” Falana stated.

EducationNewsNigeriaHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said there was nothing wrong with former President Obasanjo speaking ill of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu. Falana wrote in an article titled: ‘Matters arising from Chief Obasanjo’s Condolence Letter’, that the hypocrisy of the former President’s message that should be criticised. “Some people have said that it is against the African culture to speak ill of the dead. That is far from the truth. In the past, Africans spoke ill of the dead and exposed the dead and exposed the dead and exposed the dead if they were found to have engaged in abominable activities that brought shame to a community. “In fact, the bodies of dead men and women who were found to have brought pestilence to a community were buried in the bush,” Falana wrote. “Therefore, Chief Obasanjo has not abused the African culture by attacking the late Senator Buruji Kashamu for allegedly manipulating the law to escape justice at home and abroad. “However, it is the hypocrisy of his message that should be criticised because it is against the African culture to aid and abet a criminal suspect in his lifetime only to turn round to attack him in his grave.” Falana said that the evidence given by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) under President Obasanjo in 2003, in favour of Kashamu at an extradition case in the United Kingdom, enabled the late Senator to be cleared of drug charges and the extradition request by the United States was dismissed. “Thereafter, Kashamu returned to the country as a free man and was admitted to the PDP as full-fledged member. He funded the party and became a political leader. “The national leadership of the party acknowledged Kashamu’s immense financial contributions to the PDP. In 2014, as a result of political disagreements in the Ogun State chapter of the PDP to stop extolling Kashamu as a political leader because he was ‘a habitual criminal wanted abroad to face criminal charges levelled against him…’” “But following the resolution of the intra party feud, Chief Obasanjo mounted the rostrum in Ogun State, extolled Kashamu as a political leader and prayed to the Almighty God to reward him for his generosity,” Falana stated.

PilotnewsAugust 12, 2020

The Governing Council of the University of Lagos has confirmed the sack of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the Vice-Chancellor. The Registrar and Secretary of the Council, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, confirmed the removal of Prof Ogundipe in a statement on Wednesday. Ogundipe was removed for gross misconduct, financial recklessness and other offences, the Nation reported. “The general public is hereby notified that at an emergency meeting held on Wednesday 2 August 2020 and in accordance with...

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Falana Says Obasanjo is Hypocritical for Speaking Against Kashamu

NewsPoliticsFalana Says Obasanjo is Hypocritical for Speaking Against Kashamu

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 12, 2020

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said there was nothing wrong with former President Obasanjo speaking ill of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu. Falana wrote in an article titled: ‘Matters arising from Chief Obasanjo’s Condolence Letter’, that the hypocrisy of the former President’s message that should be criticised. “Some people have said that it is against the African culture to speak ill of the dead. That is far from the truth. In the past, Africans...

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Navy: Court Convicts Three Pirates Involved in Hijack of Vessel

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNavy: Court Convicts Three Pirates Involved in Hijack of Vessel

Beloved John (Staff Writer)August 12, 2020

A Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted three of the nine accused persons who on March 21 hijacked an Equatorial Guinea flagged vessel, MV ELOBEY VI, off Equatorial Guinea coast. Suleman Dahun, the Navy Director of Information disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Noting that the Justice Ishaq Sani gave the judgment on Monday, he stated that the judge summarily convicted Binaebi Johnson, Daniel Lemmar and Ghane Gordon...

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Biafran War Hero Col. Ihenacho Passes Away

NewsBiafran War Hero Col. Ihenacho Passes Away

PilotnewsAugust 11, 20202

By Hector-Roosevelt Udunna Ukegbu Col. Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho, one of Biafra’s most successful military commanders, passed away Wednesday July 8, 2020 from natural causes. He was born on December 24, 1944 in Upe, in Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State. He has since been buried in Owerri. He retired from the Nigerian Army as a colonel on September 3, 1990, At the time, he had recently served as the Principal Staff Officer (Colonel General Staff)...

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Anambra State: ASATU and Local Leaders Locking Horns Tenure Elongation

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAnambra State: ASATU and Local Leaders Locking Horns Tenure Elongation

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)August 11, 2020

Several communities in Anambra state are on the verge of crisis because of continued leadership of town union after expiration of the term of office of many President-Generals in Anambra State. In many of these communities, the caretaker system alien to the communities have imposed as a way to maintain the status quo in flagrant violation of the towns’ constitution, and this we gathered is brewing bad blood that may degenerate any moment into crisis,...

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Nigeria’s Terrorism Deradicalisation Scheme Leaves Traumatised Victims With No Lifeline

NewsNigeriaSpecial ReportNigeria’s Terrorism Deradicalisation Scheme Leaves Traumatised Victims With No Lifeline

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 11, 2020

Nigeria’s decade-long war with terrorists in the Northeast is fraught with lots of controversies, but the most contentious of them is what to do with those the government has described has repentant Boko Haram members, writes the West African Pilot News correspondent Adeola Oladipupo. There are three known deradicalisation programmes in Nigeria. The programme in Kuje Prison was set up for fighters convicted of violent extremist offences, or inmates awaiting trial; the Neem Foundation owns...

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