Nigeria: A Country Where Corruption is Exposed and Rewarded

NewsNigeria: A Country Where Corruption is Exposed and Rewarded

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 24, 2020

The exposure of alleged massive corruption by the handlers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) shocked many Nigerians. But the NDDC is just one out of over 900 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria and some say that if other MDAs were probed, the level of rot in them would be mouth-gaping. At the moment, no one knows how deep resource plundering goes in MDAs. But several audit reports by the Office of...

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Multinational Force Receives 47 Repentant Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsMultinational Force Receives 47 Repentant Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2020

The MultiNational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has received 47 members of Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist groups who surrendered to its troops in Lake Chad and surrounding areas. The Chief of Military Public Information MNJTF N’Djamena – Chad, Col. Timothy Antigha, in a statement on Friday, said the terrorists surrendered with their families recently in Sector 1 of the MNJTF. Antigha said that the recent incessant power tussle in the top echelon...

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Nigeria and the COVID-19 Pandemic Problem

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionNigeria and the COVID-19 Pandemic Problem

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2020

A proper leader delegates functions and expects specific tasks to be accomplished by his appointees. —Dr. I. D. Onwudiwe, COVID-19 is a disease caused by the coronavirus, which has metamorphosed into a global pandemic and claimed many lives worldwide. Nigeria, our beloved country, is not immune to the danger of this respiratory tract infection. We have lost many prominent citizens—from the former Chief of Staff to the President and to other politicians—university personnel, and, of...

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Mali Peace Mission: President Buhari Returns to Abuja

NewsWest AfricaMali Peace Mission: President Buhari Returns to Abuja

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday evening returned from Bamako, Mali, after many hours of consultations and closed-door meetings meant to mitigate the political crisis in that country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was attended by the host President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita; Presidents Machy Sall of Senegal, Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and  Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire. A resistance group, M5, is insisting that the Constitutional Court must be dissolved, and...

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Not Addressing Restructuring Before 2023 Will Lead Nigeria to Chaos – Yoruba Summit Group

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNot Addressing Restructuring Before 2023 Will Lead Nigeria to Chaos – Yoruba Summit Group

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 24, 2020

Yoruba Summit Group on Thursday, warned that any attempt to hold 2023 general elections without first addressing the issue of restructuring would end Nigeria in doom. The group also expressed displeasure that Nigeria is at the edge of political substance. This was made known in a communique issued at the end of the meeting of the Yoruba Summit Group on the state of Yoruba Nation in Nigeria. The communique was signed by Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo...

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A Governor from Industrial Hub of Nnewi Will Prove Engine of Growth for Anambra, Says Oil Magnate Arthur Eze

NewsPoliticsA Governor from Industrial Hub of Nnewi Will Prove Engine of Growth for Anambra, Says Oil Magnate Arthur Eze

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2020

The occasion was to highlight matters of security in Anambra state, but politics was not far from the surface.  And so it all played out on July 23, when oil mogul and philanthropist, Prince Arthur Eze, suggested that electing Nnewi person as next governor of Anambra state might just be the tonic to engineer massive industrial development and job creation in the state. Eze’s reasons for visiting the palace of Igwe Keneth Orizu III of...

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Over 10,000 Health Workers in Africa Infected With COVID-19 — WHO

CoronavirusNewsOver 10,000 Health Workers in Africa Infected With COVID-19 — WHO

Beloved John (Staff Writer)July 24, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said over 20,000 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus across Africa. The organisation revealed in a statement issued on Thursday by the organisation. WHO said the preliminary data shows that health workers “make up more than 5% of cases in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa alone, and in four of these, health workers make up more than 10% of all infections”. “The World Health Organization (WHO) today warned...

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Coronavirus: Nigeria Records 20 Deaths in One Day

CoronavirusNewsCoronavirus: Nigeria Records 20 Deaths in One Day

Beloved John (Staff Writer)July 24, 2020

NCDC on Thursday announced that the total death toll recorded from the COVID-19 disease in Nigeria has reached 833 on Thursday after 20 more people died from the respiratory illness. The agency reported that 604 new cases of coronavirus were recorded on Thursday. The new figure shows a slight increase from the 595 infections reported on Wednesday. Nigeria recorded it first case of the virus in late February and has since witnessed a progressive rise...

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July 29, the Day of History, Links Two Martyrs – Aguiyi-Ironsi and Murtala Mohammed

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionJuly 29, the Day of History, Links Two Martyrs – Aguiyi-Ironsi and Murtala Mohammed

PilotnewsJuly 24, 2020

You may ask…these two were martyrs? —Hector-Roosevelt Ukegbu Supreme Commander Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military ruler, knew well in time a coup was being plotted against him. The plot was revealed to him by at least two senior officers: Lt. Col. Philip Effiong, previously at the Ordnance Depot in Yaba before the January 1966 coup, then posted to Headquarters Staff, who had been alerted by a Yoruba officer based in Lokoja. The other...

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Not All Violent Problems Require Violent Solutions: Banditry in Nigeria’s North-West

NewsOpinionNot All Violent Problems Require Violent Solutions: Banditry in Nigeria’s North-West

PilotnewsJuly 23, 2020

For more than two years, northwestern Nigeria has faced devastating attacks from armed bandits, particularly in the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Niger, and Sokoto. Such attacks are driven by many overlapping factors, including cattle rustling, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, illicit artisanal mining, youth unemployment, poverty, and inequality. This is further compounded by the weakened, stretched, and demoralized security services, who are deployed in thirty-five of Nigeria’s thirty-six states and will soon enter...

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