Nigeria Police Arrests Over 1,000 Suspected Criminals, Rescued In Five Months

National SecurityNewsNigeriaNigeria Police Arrests Over 1,000 Suspected Criminals, Rescued In Five Months

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 4, 2022

The Nigeria Police has arrested 1,239 suspected criminals between January 2022 to date for various crimes. The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has disclosed this at a meeting with strategic police managers in Abuja, Thursday, revealing that the Force has secured the approval of the National Communications Commission (NCC) for the allocation of a national Police Short Code  ‘933’ for free emergency calls and information sharing between the Police and citizens. It...

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African Development Bank Secures Additional €3.5 million For The Abidjan- Lagos Highway Project

AfricaBusinessNewsNigeriaAfrican Development Bank Secures Additional €3.5 million For The Abidjan- Lagos Highway Project

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 4, 2022

Chief Transport Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB), Lydie Ehouman has said that the bank has been able to secure an agreement for additional €3.5 million for the Abidjan- Lagos highway project. The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS project is aimed at creating a corridor of road linking five countries in the region. The countries are Nigeria, Benin Repulic, Cote d’Ivore, Togo and Ghana. The road when completed is expected to benefit 40 million...

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Lagos State Government Crushes Over Commercial 2000 Motorcycles

NewsNigeriaPoliticsLagos State Government Crushes Over Commercial 2000 Motorcycles

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 4, 2022

A total of 2,228 Motorcycles, popularly called Okada, impounded in various areas where their operations have been proscribed by the Lagos State Government were crushed. The State Government had this week commenced enforcement of the total ban on the activities of Okada in six Local government areas and Council Development areas. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, while addressing newsmen at the Task Force ground in Alausa, Ikeja, said over 5,000 okada seized in...

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Let This Navel Pique Your Loins ―A Lover’s Invite

ColumnsFiction & PoetryLet This Navel Pique Your Loins ―A Lover’s Invite

PilotnewsJune 4, 2022

My love, Let these dotted nipples Point you In the way of truth. Let these fluffy boobs Enhance the fibre of your thought -to be wild and industrious. Let this navel Pique your loins To the point of no return Till you fulfill purpose. Let this road Lead you d o w n the paired arm Of Mesopotamia Wherein run the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Let the slimy waters Slide you seamlessly Into the well...

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Senator Umeh Picks Labour Party Senate Ticket, Pledges to Work with Peter Obi

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSenator Umeh Picks Labour Party Senate Ticket, Pledges to Work with Peter Obi

PilotnewsJune 3, 2022

Few days Former Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial zone, Senator Victor Umeh, had lost the ALl Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, primary ticket, he has won the ticket of the Labour Party (LP) to contest the 2023 election. Umeh had earlier on Friday notified of his joining Labour Party from All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and also stood for the primary election of the party, which held at Beautiful Gate Hotel, Awka. Returning officer in the...

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‘I Made Buhari President In 2015, It’s My Turn’, Tinubu Insists

NewsNigeriaPolitics‘I Made Buhari President In 2015, It’s My Turn’, Tinubu Insists

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 3, 2022

Ardent presidential aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has recounted his role in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as President in 2015, maintaining that it is his turn to be president in 2023. Tinubu disclosed this at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State, while addressing the APC delegates ahead of the party’s primary on Thursday. Speaking on Buhari’s victory in 2015, he said: “If not for me that stood...

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Trouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

AfricaBlogColumnsTrouble Ahead in Zimbabwe

PilotnewsJune 3, 2022

Zimbabwe’s worsening social, political, and economic landscape means trouble for the Southern Africa subregion. Conditions for the people of Zimbabwe continue to go from bad to worse. Triple-digit inflation shows no signs of slowing.  Over half of the country lives in poverty.  Its corrupt government lurches from disinterest in the population’s pain to rosy projections for growth based on pure fantasy to clumsy interventions like the recent short-lived edict banning banks from lending. Politically, the merger...

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Britain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Year On The Throne

Culture & TraditionNewsUnited KingdomBritain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Year On The Throne

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 3, 2022

Britain is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s unprecedented Platinum Jubilee, her 70th year on the throne, with all the grandeur one would expect from this 1,000-year-old institution. Queen Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne in February, and two public holidays were set aside to create a four-day weekend for nationwide events commemorating her reign from June 2-5. The four-day celebration kicked off on Thursday with the traditional ‘Trooping the Colour’ military parade in central London,...

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OPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

ColumnsNigeria ElectionsOpinionOPINION: Elite Compact Thrown Into Doubt as Atiku Abubakar’s Emergence Blows Nigerian Presidential Race Wide Open

PilotnewsMay 31, 2022

The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus.   Insofar as the axle of political contestation in Nigeria is the struggle for power between the northern and southern elite blocs, systemic stability hinges on the moral understanding that power will rotate between the two regions. The order of succession since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic in 1999 has largely followed the logic of this entente, starting...

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Edwin Clark Asks PDP Chairman, Ayu, to Resign Over Presidential Primary

NewsNigeria ElectionsEdwin Clark Asks PDP Chairman, Ayu, to Resign Over Presidential Primary

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 31, 2022

Elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign. According to him, Ayu is no longer fit and proper to retain his position as the national chairman of the PDP. Clark, a former First Republic federal Commissioner of Information, said this in a statement on Tuesday, titled, “Resign now: You’re no longer fit to remain PDP...

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