The Sun Newspaper Management Decries Arrest of Reporter in Ebonyi

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaThe Sun Newspaper Management Decries Arrest of Reporter in Ebonyi

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The management of The Sun Newspaper has condemned the arrest of its correspondent in Abakaliki, Mr. Chijioke Agwu, allegedly on the orders of Gov. Dave Umahi. A statement on Saturday in Enugu by the Head of The Sun, South East Bureau, Mr. Magnus Eze, described the situation as `unfortunate and suppression of press freedom’. Eze alleged that the governor did not want journalists to highlight the failures of his administration in the course of doing...

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JUST IN; COVID-19: Nigeria Records 49 New Cases, as Number of Infection Hits 542

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaJUST IN; COVID-19: Nigeria Records 49 New Cases, as Number of Infection Hits 542

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 49 new cases of the Novel  Coronavirus (COVID19), bringing the total to 542. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account on Saturday, said that by 10.40 p.m., 23 new cases were recorded in Lagos, 12 in FCT, 10 in Kano, two in Ogun, while Oyo and Ekiti recorded one each. The agency said that 166 cases had treated and discharged with 19 deaths in the country. It noted that the...

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Kyari’s death: APC Governors Call for United Action to Stop COVID-19

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaKyari’s death: APC Governors Call for United Action to Stop COVID-19

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), under the platform of APC, has described the death of Malam Abba Kyari, as a call for Nigerians to be united in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, died on Friday from Coronavirus infection. The forum Chairman, Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi, made the call in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, while extending...

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Abba Kyari: Obasanjo, Jonathan, Others Condole With Buhari

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaAbba Kyari: Obasanjo, Jonathan, Others Condole With Buhari

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

More Nigerians have commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari on the passing of his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, the President’s spokesman Garba Shehu has disclosed. Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan condoled with the President and the Kyari family over the death of the Chief of Staff. President Buhari also received condolence messages from Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi on behalf of the Progressive Governors...

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OPEC Commiserates With Buhari Over Kyari’s Death

CoronavirusNigeriaWorld NewsOPEC Commiserates With Buhari Over Kyari’s Death

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of his Chief of Staff Malam Abba Kyari. OPEC made this known in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Malam Mohammad Barkindo, on Saturday. Kyari died in a Lagos hospital on Friday from complications related to COVID-19, according to reports. “It was with profound shock and sadness that I learned of the tragic passing of Malam Abba Kyari. May...

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Buhari Describes Late CoS Abba Kyari as `True Nigerian Patriot’

CoronavirusNigeriaPoliticsBuhari Describes Late CoS Abba Kyari as `True Nigerian Patriot’

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja paid tribute to his late Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari, describing him as a true patriot, saying “Abba Kyari was the very best of us’’. In the tribute released by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari noted the enormous sacrifices and contributions made by the deceased to the success of his politics and administration and to the overall development of the nation. The president, who addressed Kyari...

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Why Abba Kyari Never Had the Chance of Surviving

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaWhy Abba Kyari Never Had the Chance of Surviving

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)April 18, 2020

Many Nigerians woke to the shock news on Saturday that Abba Kyari, President Buhari’s Chief of Staff and confidant had died, 26 days after it was reported that he had contracted COVID-19, during his trip to Germany and Egypt in the wake of the Pandemic. The last statement by Mr. Kyari released the second week he tested positive for the viral infection, revealed that he was asymptomatic, expected to recover fast and that he was...

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Kano Imam Arrested for Leading Juma’at Prayer Amid Lockdown

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaKano Imam Arrested for Leading Juma’at Prayer Amid Lockdown

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)April 18, 2020

The Imam of Gwammaja Mosque in Kano State has been arrested for holding Juma’at prayer on Friday, thereby defying the lockdown order imposed by the state to curb the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s media aide, Salihu Tanko Yakasai while announcing this via his twitter handle said all Imams in Kano supported the coronavirus-enforced lockdown in the state. He tweeted, “The Imam of Gwammaja Mosque that performed Friday Prayers today in...

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Nigerian Christian and Muslim Communities Unite to Combat COVID-19

ConservationNigeriaRegionsNigerian Christian and Muslim Communities Unite to Combat COVID-19

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

ENUGU, NIGERIA — The Christian and Muslim communities in Nigeria are collaborating to respond and combat the growing coronavirus pandemic in the country in what has been described as a show of love and unity. The relationship between the two religious groups and their adherents in the country has been marred with tension and violence but the leaders are putting their differences aside to unite for a common cause. The reported cases of the virus in Nigeria stands...

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Black Clergy Memorialize the Dead, Ask Government to Address Disparities

CoronavirusEconomyUnited StatesBlack Clergy Memorialize the Dead, Ask Government to Address Disparities

PilotnewsApril 18, 2020

The Rev. Frank Williams has been so busy leading two black churches in the New York borough of the Bronx that he hadn’t really considered the full extent of COVID-19’s impact on his congregation, his family and his community. But when asked, the Southern Baptist pastor of two churches, each with more than 200 members, realized after four weeks the list was long: The Saturday before Easter, a beloved deacon — a decades-long friend who...

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