Nigeria seizes luxury private jet linked to OPL245 money laundering in Montreal

NewsNigeriaWorld NewsNigeria seizes luxury private jet linked to OPL245 money laundering in Montreal

PilotnewsJune 7, 2020

By Lionel Faull & Margot Gibbs  Nigeria has tracked down and grounded the luxury private jet purchased by its former oil minister Dan Etete with some of the alleged proceeds of the notorious $1.3 billion OPL245 oil deal. Asset recovery lawyers acting for the Nigerian government swooped last week after the Bombardier 6000 jet, tail number M-MYNA (main photo), touched down at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport in Canada on Friday evening (29 May). It had just flown from...

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OPEC+ Countries Extend Oil Output Cut to July

Oil & GasWorld NewsOPEC+ Countries Extend Oil Output Cut to July

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC allies, known as OPEC+ have agreed to extend the 10-million-barrel-per-day (mbd) first phase of the oil output cut by one month, to July 2020. The group disclosed this in a statement released at the end of its online meeting in Vienna on Saturday. It would be recalled that OPEC and its allies under the OPEC+ had agreed to cut supply by up to 10 million barrels...

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CSO Urges Federal Government to Declare State Of Emergency On Sexual Based Violence

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaCSO Urges Federal Government to Declare State Of Emergency On Sexual Based Violence

Beloved John (Staff Writer)June 6, 2020

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups has condemned and incessant rape and violence against the girl-child. Following the recent outburst against rape on social media, the group during a peaceful protest in Abuja, demanded that the federal government should declare a state of emergency on gender and sexual-based violence. Groups under the coalition including ActionAid, TeacherNG, Girl-Child Africa, Connected Development, Enough is Enough Nigeria, Stand to End Rape, Silver Chip Fox, Yiaga Africa, Dorothy Njemanze...

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Protests Worldwide Embrace Black Lives Matter Movement

Law & JusticeWorld NewsProtests Worldwide Embrace Black Lives Matter Movement

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

LONDON — Thousands of people took to the streets in European and Asian cities on Saturday, demonstrating in support of U.S. protests against police brutality. Police in the German city of Hamburg used pepper spray on protesters and were ready to deploy water cannons. Several hundred “hooded and aggressive people” had put officers under pressure in the city centre, police said in a tweet, adding “We have already had to use pepper spray. With all due...

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World Environment Day: Plateau Commissioner Decries Indiscriminate Dumping of Waste

ConservationEnvironmentNewsWorld Environment Day: Plateau Commissioner Decries Indiscriminate Dumping of Waste

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

As the world celebrates this year’s Environment Day, Plateau environment commissioner Usman Idi has decried the indiscriminate dumping of refuse by residents of areas waste evacuators cannot access. The commissioner told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Jos that the situation was impeding the evacuators’ efforts to discharge their duties diligently. He said that the Plateau Environmental Protection And Sanitation Agency (PEPSA) had designated areas for residents to dump their waste to...

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Human Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

ColumnsEditorialsNigeriaOpinionHuman Smuggling into Southern Nigeria: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Disecting this strange phenomenon of hundreds of teenage Northern boys, no girls among them, hiding among cattle in trailers, others in minibusses, traveling in the dead of night, trying to sneak into Yorubaland but more especially into the Southeast and South-South zones. For those unfamiliar with Homer’s tome the Iliad, the mythological story of the ten-year siege by forces from a coalition of Greek states circa 670 B.C. against the city-state of Troy, this saying...

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‘Selma’ Snubbed at 2015 Oscars After Cast Protested Police Violence, Actor Oyelowo Says

Arts & CultureEntertainmentUnited States‘Selma’ Snubbed at 2015 Oscars After Cast Protested Police Violence, Actor Oyelowo Says

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The civil rights movie “Selma” was made free for rental on Friday, a day after actor David Oyelowo said Oscar voters had deliberately snubbed the film in 2015. Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie, said members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences objected when “Selma” cast members protested the death of a black American. “I remember at the premiere of ‘Selma’ us wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirts in protest,” said Oyelowo, referring to...

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How Police Extort Money at COVID-19 Checkpoints In Adamawa and Taraba

CoronavirusNigeriaSpecial ReportHow Police Extort Money at COVID-19 Checkpoints In Adamawa and Taraba

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

Travellers pay security operatives for passage We’re not aware, say police Ibrahim Abdul’ Aziz (Regional Correspondent)  For now, the police and other security operatives in uniform and plainclothes has been accused of profiteering from the lockdown put to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some residents in Yola,Zing, Numan, Jalingo,Wukari  and other major towns said  that rather than enforce the restriction, the operatives, including military and immigration personnel, were helping themselves to pecuniary gains. The border...

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UNO: Nigeria Won’t Lose 24 Local Councils To UN, Says Ex- NBC DG, Dahiru Bobbo

National SecurityNewsUNO: Nigeria Won’t Lose 24 Local Councils To UN, Says Ex- NBC DG, Dahiru Bobbo

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)June 6, 2020

Amid reactions, Alhaji Dahiru Bobbo,  a former Director-General of the National Boundary Commission has described as untrue reports that Nigeria may lose 24 local councils, by way of ceding, to a new country to be known as United Nations Organisation (UNO) State of Cameroon at its borders with la Republique du Cameroun by July 10 this year. Guardian, Thisday and some online media on Friday referenced the agreement, which gave July 10, 2020, as the...

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COVID-19: Fidelity Bank Donates N10m to Kano Govt

CoronavirusNewsPhilanthropyCOVID-19: Fidelity Bank Donates N10m to Kano Govt

PilotnewsJune 6, 2020

The management of Fidelity Bank Plc has donated N10 million to the Kano Government for the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Mr. Hassan Imam, Executive Director, Northern operation of the bank who presented the cheque on Friday in Kano, said that the gesture was part of the bank’s social responsibility and contribution to the fight against the dreaded disease. Imam, who lauded the commitment of the state government said that the...

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