Group Slams Ebonyi State Governor for ‘Harassing’ Journalists

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaGroup Slams Ebonyi State Governor for ‘Harassing’ Journalists

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 24, 2020

The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has censured the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, for proscribing two journalists from the Government House. The governor came under heavy criticism following the ban of two correspondents, The Sun newspaper, Chijioke Agwu, and the Vanguard Newspaper, Peter Okutu, from the State House or any government facility in the state. A statement signed by the CWPPF, the group said the governor’s  war against the media houses...

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UPDATE: COVID-19: Anambra Gov Obiano Assures in a Broadcast on New Pandemic Containment Guidelines

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaUPDATE: COVID-19: Anambra Gov Obiano Assures in a Broadcast on New Pandemic Containment Guidelines

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

A Special Broadcast on COVID-19 by the Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Chief Willie Obiano on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 to Update Ndi Anambra on the Latest Development. Ndi Anambra, I am here to give you an update you on our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Anambra State. In my last address to you on Saturdy April 18, 2020, I informed you that the first post-treatment test of the COVID-19 Index Case in...

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WHO Alerts on Cyber-Attacks, Calls for Vigilance

CoronavirusNational SecurityWorld NewsWHO Alerts on Cyber-Attacks, Calls for Vigilance

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 23, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cyber attacks directed at its staff members and email scams targeting at the public since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. WHO, in a statement on Thursday said that this week, 450 active WHO email addresses and passwords were leaked online along with thousands belonging to others working on the novel Coronavirus response. “The leaked credentials did not put WHO...

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U.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

CoronavirusEconomyWorld NewsU.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Thursday that around one trillion dollars of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a proposed global deal. The UN agency said that the plan was to help them overcome the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s developing economies, which were already struggling with a rapidly growing debt burden, must now confront a record global downturn, plummeting prices for their oil and...

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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

ColumnsCoronavirusOpinionCOVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Isolation from COVID-19 pandemic calls for resourcefulness: engagement and ways to encourage exercising the mind and body. _____ Many nations, including Nigeria, are on lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus. This brings to mind that we had been enjoying the privilege of liberty all along without even knowing it! The powerful is shaken, and the vulnerable weakened even the more. States closed their borders to forestall movement of persons. Except for the medical sector...

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COVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

CoronavirusUnited StatesCOVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO, has called on the Federal and State Governments to take necessary measures to halt community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Mr. Isah Ibrahim, its Nutrition Advocacy Advisor, Kaduna State Field Office, made the appeal in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna. According to him, community transmission of COVID-19 can have an unimaginable impact on children. ”More preventive actions need to be taken to ensure the protection and well-being of...

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Australia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

CoronavirusWorld NewsAustralia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday threw his weight behind calls for an international inquiry into China’s initial response to the coronavirus and its origins. “I think such an inquiry is important and we can respectfully have a difference of view from that that has been put by China,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday. In his comments Morrison backed his foreign minister, Marise Payne, who on Sunday called for an independent inquiry,...

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Covid-19: Minister Raises Alarm Over Influx of Destitutes in FCT

NewsNigeriaPovertyCovid-19: Minister Raises Alarm Over Influx of Destitutes in FCT

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Wednesday, raised alarm over the influx of destitute into the territory from neighbouring states in spite of the current lockdown in Abuja. , Minister of State for FCT made the statement while inspecting palliative items at Tunga Mage community in Gwagwalada Area Council, for onward distribution to the vulnerable at Kwali Area Council. Aliyu, who said that FCT was not a dumping ground, warned that anyone caught aiding...

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HEADLINER: Whitney Houston Biopic Being Produced for Film

EntertainmentFilmUnited StatesHEADLINER: Whitney Houston Biopic Being Produced for Film

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Whitney Houston is headed back to the big screen in a feature film about the singer’s life that took her to the heights of fame but ended in drug addiction and tragedy. Taking its title from one of Houston’s biggest hits – “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” – the film has the backing of the singer’s estate and her longtime record producer and mentor Clive Davis, producers said. They described the film as a “joyous,...

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Nigeria Records 91 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 873

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNigeria Records 91 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 873

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has recorded  91 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the pandemic outbreak in the country. In a tweet, on, Wednesday night the NCDC said the 91 new cases were reported from nine states. The states are Lagos (74), Katsina (five) Ogun (four), Edo (two), Delta (two), FCT (one), Adamawa (one), Kwara (one) and Oyo (one). It said that the country’s total infections have now risen to 873. While deaths have risen...

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