Why Foreign Countries are Scrambling to Set Up Bases in Africa

Foreign PolicyMilitaryOpinionWhy Foreign Countries are Scrambling to Set Up Bases in Africa

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials. The team was trained, armed and supported by US and British intelligence officers. It has been reported that since 2004, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) programme has been operational in Kenya without public scrutiny. For its part, the British...

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Emily Dickinson is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time

Arts & CultureNewsEmily Dickinson is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired by distinguished men; the white-clad, solitary spinster languishing alone in her bedroom; and, in more recent interpretations, the rebellious teenager bent on smashing structures of power with her torrential genius. As the world continues to endure the ravages of COVID-19, another ghost of Dickinson steps into view. This one, about 40 years old, seems...

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Electricity/Fuel Pump Hike: NLC Insists on Nationwide Protest

LabourNewsNigeriaElectricity/Fuel Pump Hike: NLC Insists on Nationwide Protest

PilotnewsSeptember 22, 2020

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that it would proceed with its planned nationwide protest with effect from Sept. 28 over Federal Government refusal to reverse the hikes in electricity tariff and fuel pump price. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLC’s Central Working Committee...

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Despite Criticism, FG Pushes Water Resource Bill

InfrastructureNewsNigeriaDespite Criticism, FG Pushes Water Resource Bill

Beloved John (Staff Writer)September 22, 2020

The Federal Government has maintained its decision to reintroduce the Water Resources Bill which seeks to bring all water resources both surface and underground under the exclusive list despite criticism. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at a joint briefing with the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu in Abuja. According to the Minister, the bill was not designed to cause water wars but as a panacea to likely water...

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Increased Level of Flood in Anambra Puts Residents on the Edge As Environmentalist, Government Officials React

EnvironmentNewsSpecial ReportIncreased Level of Flood in Anambra Puts Residents on the Edge As Environmentalist, Government Officials React

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)September 22, 2020

Special Report by Ebuka Onyekwelu “NIHSA wishes to use this medium to advise state and local government, stakeholders, multinational companies and public-spirited individuals and philanthropists that all hands should be on deck to save the country from the consequences of flood pandemic in the year 2020”. Only a few months ago, precisely in July, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency – NIHSA- had warned that several Nigerian states are at the risk of experiencing “massive flooding”....

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Obaseki Hails the People of Edo, Says “Lions, Tigers” are Tamed, Now in Zoe

NewsPoliticsObaseki Hails the People of Edo, Says “Lions, Tigers” are Tamed, Now in Zoe

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 22, 2020

The Governor of Edo and Governor-elect, Godwin Obaseki, on Monday, praised the people of Edo for ensuring his victory at the recently concluded governorship election in the state. He added that his reelection has brought an end to the institution of godfatherism and ensured that “the lions and tigers” were permanently put in the cage. Obaseki said this while speaking to party supporters at the Museum Ground, Kings Square in Benin City after he had...

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APC Finally Concedes Defeat, Admits Edo Poll is Free, Fair

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC Finally Concedes Defeat, Admits Edo Poll is Free, Fair

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)September 22, 2020

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, conceded defeat 24 hours after Governor Godwin Obaseki of the People’s Democratic Party, was declared winner of the Edo Governorship Election. Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni in a statement titled, “Edo State Governorship Election: Victory for Democracy,” he congratulated Obaseki over his victory. In the signed statement, Buni said, “Edo State Governorship election is over, the winner has been declared...

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Nigeria Records 195 New COVID-19 Cases, as Death Toll Hits 1,100

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNigeria Records 195 New COVID-19 Cases, as Death Toll Hits 1,100

PilotnewsSeptember 22, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 195 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. According to the agency, the new infection takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,437. The health agency sadly reported two new deaths raising the death toll in the country to 1,100. It also reported that 105 patients who had been treated and...

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Over 270 Blind Graduates in Adamawa Seeks Employment

NewsNigeriaWellnessOver 270 Blind Graduates in Adamawa Seeks Employment

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)September 22, 2020

Over two hundred and seventy (270) blinds, holders of Degree, NCE, Diploma, and Secondary School Certificates are among thousands of unemployed graduates in Adamawa state, Northeast Nigeria seeking employment. The rate of street beggars particularly in the Northern parts of the country may continue to rise unless the government offers employment and provide skills to these categories of people in society. Comrade Bitrus Richard, Chairman Nigeria Association for the Blind, Adamawa State chapter who confirmed...

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Boko Haram: Nigerian Army Colonel killed in Ambush

NewsBoko Haram: Nigerian Army Colonel killed in Ambush

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)September 22, 2020

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Nigerian Army Colonel and veteran of the decade’s long military campaign against Boko Haram was killed in an ambush on September 21. Colonel Dahiru Bako died from injuries sustained when his team encountered a prolonged ambush laid by the Boko Haram splinter faction recognized as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). The armour officer by training, was the Brigade Commander 25 Task Force Brigade based in the Army Super...

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