Google Launches Subsea Cable In Lagos, Says It Will Boost Nigerian GDP by $10.1bn, Create Jobs

BusinessNewsTelecommunicationGoogle Launches Subsea Cable In Lagos, Says It Will Boost Nigerian GDP by $10.1bn, Create Jobs

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 22, 2022

LAGOS — Google, on Thursday, unveiled plans to go for the heart of Nigeria’s Internet market with its Equiano submarine cable. Google landed the cable with its partner, WIOCC, a prominent African digital backbone company in Lagos yesterday. The state-of-the-art Equiano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, according to Google, would reduce the retail cost of Internet prices by 21 per cent after its...

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Celebrities Fashion Sense, Fidelis’ Entrance Dance Steps, Other Trending Matters After Rita Dominic’s Wedding

EntertainmentLifestyleMarriageCelebrities Fashion Sense, Fidelis’ Entrance Dance Steps, Other Trending Matters After Rita Dominic’s Wedding

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 22, 2022

OWERRI — Tuesday, April 19, 2022, was all about Nollywood diva, Rita Dominic, and her beau, the publisher of Daily Times, Fidelis Anosike, as they shut down Imo State for their traditional wedding ceremony. The ceremony which took place in her hometown, Aboh, Mbaise, in Imo State had many of Rita’s friends and colleagues in Nollywood grace the occasion in stunning outfits. The event looked like a huge Nollywood reunion party with radiant faces, and...

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State Police Will Solve Insecurity In Nigeria- Obasanjo

Crime & SecurityNewsState Police Will Solve Insecurity In Nigeria- Obasanjo

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 22, 2022

Former Nigeria President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said the establishment of state police is the only option that would address the challenge of growing insecurity in the country than community policing. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media, to the former President Kehinde Akinyemi, said the challenge of insecurity around the country should be everybody’s concern. According to the statement, the former President was speaking while playing host to the leadership of the...

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Crisis in Igboland —Confronting the Realities Head-On

Chris Chinwe UlasiColumnsOpinionSoutheastCrisis in Igboland —Confronting the Realities Head-On

PilotnewsApril 21, 2022

“It might be fair to ask how the Igbos arrived at this discreditable juncture”  It is no longer a speculation that in Nigeria, Ndi Igbo are faced with an extraordinary surge of different but overlapping security crises, from violent kidnapping, and crime, to extremist insurgencies destroying every corner of this region. Besides various unpopular pro-Biafran activists and groups, the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); the Indigenous...

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Peter Obi’s “Holier Than Thou” Campaign Tactic is Self-Dramatizing Folly, Not A Strategy

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsOpinionPoliticsPeter Obi’s “Holier Than Thou” Campaign Tactic is Self-Dramatizing Folly, Not A Strategy

PilotnewsApril 20, 2022

Currently, he is merely romancing party cliques and showcasing his self-canonized sainthood. All over his campaign literature and everywhere on social media, a Nigerian upcoming presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, has been touting his moderate lifestyle and honest decision-making aptitude as qualifications for his candidacy. Most Nigerians, especially his supporters, are very excited and are beginning to these values as a devotional creed. The first promotional story to showcase Obi’s moderate lifestyle came in 2017, shortly...

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OPINION: Understanding China’s Position On Ukraine Conflict

ColumnsOpinionWar & CrisisOPINION: Understanding China’s Position On Ukraine Conflict

PilotnewsApril 20, 2022

By Olalekan A. Babatunde (Guest Columnist) Recent history indicates that China abhors war or violence of any kind. Since its brief war against Vietnam in 1979 and border dispute with India for the first time in more than four decades, China has not been a full-scale war with anyone. Instead, China builds and not bombs. It is building bridges across the multipolar and multicultural world. It is not that China was not tempted or provoked...

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OPINION: Domestic Abuse; How We Feed The Beast

ColumnsLaw & JusticeMarriageOpinionOPINION: Domestic Abuse; How We Feed The Beast

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)April 19, 2022

While it is important to ensure abusers are brought to book, we might not achieve the goal of ending domestic violence without taking into consideration the root of abuse in the mind of victims The UN defines domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. It could be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that...

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What Nigerians Need Is Problem Solver Not Consensus Candidate – Peter Obi

NewsNigeria ElectionsWhat Nigerians Need Is Problem Solver Not Consensus Candidate – Peter Obi

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 19, 2022

ABAKALIKI — A Presidential hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said that Nigerians’ current need is far from a consensus candidate but a problem solver who will fix the country. Obi made the statement during his meeting with some PDP delegates and other officials of the leading opposition in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, adding that Nigerians were looking forward to having a true leader capable...

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Ohanaeze Replies Oluwo of Iwo, Urges Monarch to Be Open-Minded Towards All

NewsOhanaeze Replies Oluwo of Iwo, Urges Monarch to Be Open-Minded Towards All

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 19, 2022

The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaze Ndigbo, has reacted to the statement credited to Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, which stated that the Igbo cannot be trusted with the office of the president in Nigeria. The organization explained that Oba’s statement was not based on any verifiable fact but evidently on self-serving interest. Oba Akanbi had, in a statement issued through his Chief Press Secretary, Alli Ibraheem, said that “no Nigerian will feel...

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Malapropism: “No, You Should Have Brought Nazareth Since You Did Not See Nineveh”

ColumnsLifestyleMalapropism: “No, You Should Have Brought Nazareth Since You Did Not See Nineveh”

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)April 19, 2022

Okoro was so proud of how diverse his wife, Jane, was, in that she could converse with people from different cultural backgrounds and fields of career. The night had fallen and they were in bed about to have some pre-sleep romantic moment. Okoro looked Jane in the eye and said with a well of desire; “Honey, I love your electric personality.” Jane blinked and replied; “I appreciate your mention of my personality as eclectic.” In...

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