Gruesome “Blasphemy” Killing Brings Nigeria’s Long-Running Ethno-Religious Divide Into Sharp Focus

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionReligionGruesome “Blasphemy” Killing Brings Nigeria’s Long-Running Ethno-Religious Divide Into Sharp Focus

PilotnewsMay 18, 2022

The brutal murder of college sophomore evokes conflicting visions of citizenship and political identity in Nigeria.   Last week’s gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu, a home economics sophomore at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, comes at a time of escalating social and economic tension in Nigeria, and will most certainly raise the political stakes as the country enters electioneering season in preparation for next year’s presidential election. Ms. Yakubu was thought to have...

CONTINUE READING
EFCC Arrest Accountant General Of The Federation, Quiz Former Speaker House Of Reps

Crime & PunishmentNewsEFCC Arrest Accountant General Of The Federation, Quiz Former Speaker House Of Reps

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 18, 2022

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, arrested serving Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris in connection with the diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of 80 Billion Naira. The anti-graft agency announced the arrest on its verified Facebook account. The funds were laundered through real estate investments in Kano and Abuja. The Commission’s verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked off the funds through bogus...

CONTINUE READING
Google Announces $4m Black Founders Fund for 60 Start-ups Across Africa

BusinessInvestingTelecommunicationGoogle Announces $4m Black Founders Fund for 60 Start-ups Across Africa

PilotnewsMay 17, 2022

Google on Tuesday said that 60 eligible  black-founded  start-ups  would receive  a total of four million dollars  in the second  cohort  of Google  for Start-up  Black Founders Fund  (BFF) Mr. Folarin Aiyegbusi, Google’s Head of Start-up Ecosystem, Africa,  made this known in a statement announcing the opening of applications for Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund for Africa. Aiyegbusi said that following the success of the first cohort in 2021, Google increased its commitment in 2022 with additional...

CONTINUE READING
Nigeria: the Deborah Yakubu heartbreak and the rest of us

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionNigeria: the Deborah Yakubu heartbreak and the rest of us

PilotnewsMay 15, 2022

What in the world is God waiting for? Why is He not Pissed-off as I am? ―Don Okolo Lay Deborah Yakubu among the lilies. Bury her with a ton of roses. Let the barren State of Sokoto, her sullied, morally bankrupt denizens, her faithlessness in that certain faith dry out into the sands that work her hills. Let her valleys, and the bedrocks roiling and steaming with the hellish brand of fire remain unquenchable. Let...

CONTINUE READING
OPINION: Twists And Turns Of Jonathan’s Second Coming

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: Twists And Turns Of Jonathan’s Second Coming

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 15, 2022

By Ezinne Onwuka (Senior Reporter and Opinion Writer) Ahead of the much anticipated 2023 general elections, there have been widespread speculations bordering on the question of who the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), will produce as its presidential candidate. As of the time of writing, over 20 aspirants have picked the party’s N100 million expression of interest and nomination forms. Interestingly, other politicians, undettered by the outrageous cost of the forms, continue to join...

CONTINUE READING
Buhari Bans Nigeria From International Basketball Competitions For Two Years

NewsSportsBuhari Bans Nigeria From International Basketball Competitions For Two Years

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 13, 2022

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate withdrawal of Nigeria from all international basketball competitions for a period of two years with immediate effect. Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. Dare, represented by Ismaila Abubakar, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, said the ban became imperative following the recurring crisis that have plagued the development of the sports in the country....

CONTINUE READING
Employer-Employee Relationship: Olusegun Sensitizes Nigerian Employees

NigeriaSpecial ReportEmployer-Employee Relationship: Olusegun Sensitizes Nigerian Employees

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)May 11, 20221

Recently, an employer in Lagos, Nigeria tweeted about how he turned back his employees who came late to work, giving the heavy downpour as an excuse. He emphasized how the employees were aware of the company’s seriousness with punctuality. The tweet caused mixed reactions online; some supporting his action and some others criticizing it. Conversations about the employer-employee relationship is not a prevalent topic in Nigeria as many believe in the ‘at all at all...

CONTINUE READING
Jonathan Rejects APC Presidential Nomination Form, Describes It As “An Insult”

NewsNigeria ElectionsJonathan Rejects APC Presidential Nomination Form, Describes It As “An Insult”

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 9, 2022

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress purchased for him on Monday by a group of his supporters from the north. Dr. Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form for him broke that the former did not authorise the purchase and considered the move by the group ‘an insult’. “We wish to categorically state that...

CONTINUE READING
APC South West Resolve To Produce Next President, South East Plead With Buhari

NewsNigeria ElectionsAPC South West Resolve To Produce Next President, South East Plead With Buhari

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 7, 2022

Leaders of the South-West geopolitical zone and presidential aspirants from the zone rose have resolved to produce the next president of Nigeria. This is even as leaders of the South-East region pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to support the South-East to produce the next president of the country. Vice  President Yemi Osinbajo,  national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, and Senator Ibikunle Amosun were the APC...

CONTINUE READING
Buhari Meets South-East Leaders In Ebonyi, They Demand For Nnamdi Kanu’s release

NewsBuhari Meets South-East Leaders In Ebonyi, They Demand For Nnamdi Kanu’s release

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 6, 2022

ABAKALIKI —The South-East leaders on Friday have once again asked President Muhammadu Buhari to release the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The Igbo leaders made the plea in an address during a meeting with Buhari at the Executive Council Chambers, New Government House Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State. Chairman of South-East Traditional Rulers Council, Eze Charles Mkpuma, read the address. On Thursday, Buhari commenced a two-day working visit to Ebonyi...

CONTINUE READING

Newer Posts

Older Posts

WP2Social Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com