Angola Maintains Closed Borders to Fend off COVID-19

AfricaCoronavirusNewsAngola Maintains Closed Borders to Fend off COVID-19

PilotnewsAugust 9, 2020

Angola says it will maintain closed borders to fight and prevent a spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. According to a Presidential Decree, which updates the measures adopted during the prevailing ‘State of Calamity’, only nationals and foreign residents can return to the national territory. The decree also stated that foreign citizens may exit, seeking to return to their respective countries. Official trips are also permitted. The measure, to become effective on Aug. 10...

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Breaking: Special Assistant To Anambra State Governor On Security Assassinated

Crime & SecurityNewsPoliticsBreaking: Special Assistant To Anambra State Governor On Security Assassinated

PilotnewsAugust 9, 2020

A key security member of the Obiano administration has been assassinated. Mr. Azubuike Ekwegbalu was the Special Assistant to Anambra State Governor on Security.  The Special Assistant to Anambra State Governor on Security Mr. Azubuike Ekwegbalu has been killed by suspected hired assassins. This is a statement issued by Anambra State Government on the incident The Death of Mr. Azubuike Ekwegbalu, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Obiano on Security. The Anambra State Government announces with...

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Mobile Police Training School Will Enhance Security in Nasarawa- Gov. Sule

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaMobile Police Training School Will Enhance Security in Nasarawa- Gov. Sule

PilotnewsAugust 9, 2020

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa says the Mobile Police Training School being built in the state would enhance security when completed. Sule stated this on Saturday in Endehu community, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA) while inspecting progress of work at the site. “This place popularly called ‘many have gone’ is notorious for accident, kidnapping and armed robbery. “This is the same hill where my Deputy Governor, Emmanuel Akabe was attacked last year,” Sule said. He...

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DAILY UPDATE: Nigeria Records 46,140 COVID-19 Cases

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaDAILY UPDATE: Nigeria Records 46,140 COVID-19 Cases

PilotnewsAugust 9, 2020

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 453 new COVID-19 cases in the country, bringing the total infections to 46,140. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday. The health agency noted that six more persons had died from the disease. It said to date, 46,140 cases had been confirmed, 33,044 discharged and 942 deaths recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The NCDC said that...

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Political Enemies Trade Words Over the Life and Death of Buruji Kashamu

CorruptionLifestyleNewsPoliticsPolitical Enemies Trade Words Over the Life and Death of Buruji Kashamu

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)August 9, 2020

Political heavyweights and sworn enemies in Nigeria’s Southwest have clashed over the controversial life of Senator Buruji Kashamu, who died at the First Cardiology Hospital in Lagos, due to complications from COVID-19. The clash began when former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a letter titled ‘letter of condolence’ addressed to the State government, said that the late Kashamu manipulated the law and politics to escape justice over alleged criminal offences in Nigeria and abroad. “I receive...

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Armed Robbers Dressed in Hunters, Vigilante Uniforms to Attack Residents in Yola

Crime & SecurityLocal GovernmentNewsArmed Robbers Dressed in Hunters, Vigilante Uniforms to Attack Residents in Yola

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)August 9, 2020

Residents of Yola and its environs now sleep with two eyes open as gangs of robbers dressed in hunters and vigilante uniforms burst and ransacked about 10 houses at Ummare in Yolde-Pate ward of Yola, the Adamawa state capital in the early hours of Saturday, residents have said. A resident of the area who simply identified himself as Musa said the gang went from house to house forcing doors open to rob residents of money,...

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Boko Haram: North-East Governors Want Police To Be Equipped To Deal With The Terror Groups

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBoko Haram: North-East Governors Want Police To Be Equipped To Deal With The Terror Groups

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)August 9, 2020

The League of Governors of northeastern Nigeria has called on the federal government to step up its fight against Boko Haram in the region. The governors made the call during a meeting of the North East Governors Association on Saturday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. Borno State governor’s spokesman Mallam Isah Gusau told the BBC that during the meeting, the governors agreed on a number of issues, including the need for the government...

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EDO 2020: Buhari Defends Ize-Iyamu’s Corruption Trial, Challenges PDP to Sack Fintiri, Others

CorruptionNewsPoliticsEDO 2020: Buhari Defends Ize-Iyamu’s Corruption Trial, Challenges PDP to Sack Fintiri, Others

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)August 8, 2020

Ahead of Edo state guber polls President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday rose in defence of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the APC governorship candidate in Edo State, saying the candidate remains innocent until proven otherwise by a court of law. In a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, Mr. Buhari challenged the opposition PDP to first withdraw the nomination of its governors before asking the APC not to field Mr. Ize-Iyamu as candidate. READ FULL STATEMENT BELOW…...

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Nigeria Must Not Put Schools on the Front Line of Pandemic without life-saving measures

Chris Chinwe UlasiEditorialsEducationNewsNigeria Must Not Put Schools on the Front Line of Pandemic without life-saving measures

Chris UlasiAugust 8, 2020

Federal and state government authorities should be leading the way in modeling pro-life values that put people’s health, safety and lives first. ______________ Despite the fact that Africa’s most populous country is third behind South Africa and Egypt as COVID-19 most impacted in Africa, schools across Nigeria are being asked to resume in-person classes. Daily assurances intended to ameliorate citizens’ anxiety caused by uncertainly about the pandemic can only go as far as bridging the...

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COVID-19: World Bank Approves $114.28m for Nigeria

CoronavirusMoneyNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: World Bank Approves $114.28m for Nigeria

PilotnewsAugust 8, 2020

World Bank has approved $114.28 million financing to help Nigeria prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 with specific focus on state-level responses. According to a statement from the bank on Friday, the amount includes $100 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and $14.28 million grant from the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility. It stated that the Federal Government would provide grants to thirty-six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...

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