Zamfara State is Offering Cows For Guns to Halt Attacks ―It’s Two Cows For Each Gun

Local GovernmentNewsNigeriaZamfara State is Offering Cows For Guns to Halt Attacks ―It’s Two Cows For Each Gun

PilotnewsJuly 17, 20201

Authorities in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun surrendered to halt bloody attacks by criminal gangs, including cattle rustlers. Remote communities across the region have for years been hit hard by deadly raids from armed groups of motorcycle-riding cattle rustlers and kidnappers. Military operations have failed to end the killings and local officials have repeatedly tried negotiations to broker peace. Zamfara governor Bello Matawalle on Thursday said that under the...

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Nigeria’s Nneka Ede is the First African Woman to Own a European Football Club

NewsNigeriaSportsNigeria’s Nneka Ede is the First African Woman to Own a European Football Club

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

■ Nigerian Nneka Ede is labeled as the first woman to own a European sports club following her purchase of  the Portuguese club, Lusitano Ginásio Clube. Nigeria’s female entrepreneur Nneka Ede has become the first African woman to own a European football club after she pulled off a deal last June enabling her to own the 108-year-old Lusitano Ginásio Clube that is participating in Campeonato de Portugal (the Portuguese third division). In her own words...

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The Prospect of Local Policing Amid Security Breakdown in Nigeria

National SecurityNigeriaOpinionThe Prospect of Local Policing Amid Security Breakdown in Nigeria

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

Personal security is rapidly deteriorating in Nigeria. There is the Boko Haram insurrection in the northeast, unrest in the southern oil patch, and conflict over water and land in the middle of the country. Many of these challenges are long-standing. Adding to the list of security crises is a nationwide crime wave involving kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling, and home invasions. Such crimes have long existed in one part of the country or another, but...

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Woman, 64, held in Nigerian hotel for year after toy boy lures her with marriage

LifestyleNewsPeopleWoman, 64, held in Nigerian hotel for year after toy boy lures her with marriage

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

■ During that time he allegedly set about making money by forcing the woman to use her American accent in scams. Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku allegedly met the 64-year-old American woman on Facebook and invited her to come to Lagos in Nigeria under the “pretext of love and marriage” A woman was allegedly held in a hotel for more than a year by her husband who used her identity to commit fraud. The 64-year-old woman, who...

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Twenty-Four Hours As Jesus  —the test of righteousness  

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionTwenty-Four Hours As Jesus  —the test of righteousness  

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

This offer to refuse one billion dollars is harsh, but this offer to pick the Mind and Power of Jesus, is mean —Don Okolo For some people, having one billion dollars in their pocket is tantamount to having more money than God…especially, if the money was an overnight acquisition…literally, overnight. And you are not a gambler, meaning you hadn’t gambled on Lotto tickets the previous day on the likelihood you could win big. I love...

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Nigeria’s COVID-19 Daily Cases Hit 595 Thursday

CoronavirusNewsNigeria’s COVID-19 Daily Cases Hit 595 Thursday

PilotnewsJuly 17, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 595 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rose to 34,854. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. The NCDC said that as at July 16, 595 new confirmed cases and nine deaths were recorded in the country. According to it, till date, 34,854 cases have been confirmed, 14,292 cases have been discharged and 769 deaths...

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Nigeria Government Inaugurates WTO Campaign Team for Okonjo-Iweala

BusinessNewsNigeriaNigeria Government Inaugurates WTO Campaign Team for Okonjo-Iweala

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

The Federal Government on Thursday inaugurates a campaign team to develop strategies for Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as she prepares to contest for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organization. The campaign strategy team was inaugurated in Abuja by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Richard Adebayo. The minister says it is vital to inaugurate the campaign team to ensure that the Nigerian candidate emerged as the DG of the WTO. The minister...

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774,000 Jobs: Buhari Warns Appointees, Says No Room for Disrespecting National Assembly

NewsPolitics774,000 Jobs: Buhari Warns Appointees, Says No Room for Disrespecting National Assembly

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday warns his appointees, says he would not tolerate any of them disrespecting the National Assembly. According to a statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistance on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President gave this warning while receiving the Senate President, Sen. Ahmad Lawan; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The statement is titled ‘President Buhari reads riot act...

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The Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

National SecurityNewsSpecial ReportThe Wild Foe: Why Nigeria’s Military Cannot Hit the Core of Boko Haram

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

Boko Haram is said by the Nigerian government officials to be ‘technically defeated’, but recent incidents portray an adversary on a rampage and an unending bloody nightmare for the military since the civil war. Adeola Oladipupo, The West African Pilot News Correspondent, writes. It was founded in the Northeast state of Borno in 2002 by an Islamic cleric, Mallam Muhammed Yusuf, as a Salafi movement, part of Sunni Islam, which wanted a state that would...

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Adamawa Govt Approves N18.6bn For Flyovers, Roads

InfrastructureNewsAdamawa Govt Approves N18.6bn For Flyovers, Roads

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)July 17, 2020

The Adamawa State Executive Council Thursday approved N18.6 billion for the construction of two flyover bridges in the state capital and township roads across the state. Similarly, the council, during an extraordinary meeting in the state capital, Yola, also approved recovery of the payment of sales of shops at Jimeta Ultramodern Market, by issuing demand notice to those who have defaulted for over 10 years. The Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Dr. Umar Garba Pella, dropped...

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