Coco Gauff tops Venus Williams at Australian Open; Serena sweeps

NewsSportsCoco Gauff tops Venus Williams at Australian Open; Serena sweeps

PilotnewsJanuary 20, 2020

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Everyone had the same question when the Australian Open draw was revealed: What were the odds that Coco Gauff and Venus Williams would face each other again in the first round at a Grand Slam tournament? ”I was a bit shocked,” Gauff said, ”I’m sure everyone was a bit shocked.” Gauff, 15, played Williams, 39, to begin her first appearance in the main draw at Melbourne Park, just like they matched...

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Henry Onyekuru: Nigerian cleared to make Galatasaray debut

NewsSportsHenry Onyekuru: Nigerian cleared to make Galatasaray debut

PilotnewsJanuary 19, 2020

Nigeria international Henry Onyekuru will finally be able to make his second debut for Turkish club Galatasaray this month after receiving a playing license. The 22-year-old returned for a second loan spell at the Super Lig champions two weeks ago from French club Monaco, but his quest to get in the thick of the action was hit by an administrative problem and a bout of malaria. Galatasaray, who could not obtain a playing license for...

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Indisputability of the African Woman and Her Resilience

ColumnsLifestyleIndisputability of the African Woman and Her Resilience

PilotnewsJanuary 18, 2020

 The average African woman is born into the world and tattooed with that mark of Resilience This Page is NOT your typical woman’s column. It is NOT a fashion and cosmetic exhibition – and definitely NOT against those concepts or lifestyle either. It is an opinion commentary without any atom of sentimentality or emotionalism. It is erroneously believed that only women are endowed with emotional expressions and sentimentality. This is a dead concept because men have...

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Nigeria: Why court sacked Senator Ifeanyi Uba

NewsNigeriaNigeria: Why court sacked Senator Ifeanyi Uba

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Justice Bello Kawu of the FCT High Court in Kubwa, Abuja on Friday ruled that Dr Obinna Uzo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the duly-elected Senator representing Anambra South. Kawu therefore ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a Certificate of Return to Uzo within 24 hours as affirmed. He also ruled that the application of joinder by Chris Uba, the third defendant in the suit, has been struck out. The...

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Nigeria grab 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal at African Track Championship

NigeriaSportsNigeria grab 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal at African Track Championship

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

Team Nigeria at the ongoing African Track Cycling Championship in Cairo, Egypt, have won one gold, one silver and a bronze medals. The championship organised by the African Cycling Confederation (CAC) began on Thursday and will end on Sunday. According to the competition’s website, Grace Ayuba won gold in the junior category from the scratch 7.5-kilometre event. Former world number five on track cycling in the junior category, Mary Samuel, led the Nigeria team to...

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Surviving heart attack in a Nation with more than 5 million cases per year

ColumnsHealthLifestyleSurviving heart attack in a Nation with more than 5 million cases per year

PilotnewsJanuary 17, 2020

The incidence of heart attack in Nigeria is put at about 1.5million cases per year.  This is quite alarming. If the condition is short term, usually will resolve within days to weeks, but if critical, may require emergency concerted care. But the treatment would often depend on the severity of the condition ranging from a well-coordinated lifestyle changes in individuals prone to obesity and cardiac rehabilitation, medications and bypass surgery. Dr.  C. Ugo Ulasi, West...

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‘I looked for death but I couldn’t find it,’ a Nigerian town relives the brutal civil war, 50 years after it ended

Nigeria‘I looked for death but I couldn’t find it,’ a Nigerian town relives the brutal civil war, 50 years after it ended

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

Evelyn Okororie had just returned home from the market in Nigeria’s Midwest region, when neighbors informed her that an airstrike had killed her mother, brother and three of her children. The year was 1969, and it was two months before the end of the brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country. It was said to be the...

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House delivers impeachment articles to Senate, setting stage for historic trial

NewsPoliticsHouse delivers impeachment articles to Senate, setting stage for historic trial

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

The House of Representatives formally delivered two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for a trial to determine whether a president should be removed from office for just the third time in U.S. history. In a ceremony that capped a whirlwind day on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed both articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In the morning, Pelosi introduced the...

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Nigerian Government reaffirms deep economic relations with Turkey

NewsNigeriaNigerian Government reaffirms deep economic relations with Turkey

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthen economic relations with the Turkish government to boost trade and investment. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Adeniyi Adebayo made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the Nigeria-Turkey Business Forum organised by Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), a leading business organisation in Turkey. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the business forum was organised to pave way for both countries’ private sector...

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What government must do to lift Nigeria out of poverty

ColumnsNigeriaWhat government must do to lift Nigeria out of poverty

PilotnewsJanuary 15, 2020

We know Nigeria is not working for the vast majority of Nigerians. We have too many of our youths unemployed and unemployable; too many of our children out of schools and roaming the streets, too many of our elderly eking out a living in the rural areas.  All the indices of human development are pointing South. Yet, our population growth rate outpaces our GDP growth rate earning us the unenviable crown of poverty capital of...

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