Nigerian President Buhari Clashes With Twitter Chief Executive Dorsey

ColumnsOpinionNigerian President Buhari Clashes With Twitter Chief Executive Dorsey

PilotnewsJuly 8, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   The Buhari administration’s June ban on Twitter in Nigeria, combined with proposals within Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow the federal government to establish a “code of conduct” for Nigeria’s media to counter, among other things, “fake news,” rightly sets off alarm bells within the human rights community. Nigeria is challenged on multiple fronts: a jihadi insurrection in the North East and increasingly in the North West; quarrels over water and...

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NYSC Should Give Full Military Training to Nigerian Youths, Let Them Carry Guns – Taraba Governor

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNYSC Should Give Full Military Training to Nigerian Youths, Let Them Carry Guns – Taraba Governor

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 8, 2021

LAGOS– As part of measures to curb insecurity in the country, the Governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, has suggested that members of the National Youth Service Corps should be allowed to undergo full military training to know how to handle guns for self-defense. Ishaku also suggested that the duration of the youth scheme should be extended to two years from one year, to allow sufficient military training for graduates. The Taraba Governor stated this...

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Gunmen Assassinate Haiti President, Jovenel Moise

World NewsGunmen Assassinate Haiti President, Jovenel Moise

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 7, 2021

Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated at his home early Wednesday morning by a group of armed individuals, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph announced. Joseph said he was now in charge of the country. Moise’s injured wife was in the hospital, according to Joseph, who urged the public to remain calm, and insisted the police and army would ensure the population’s safety. “The president was assassinated at his home by foreigners who spoke English and...

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“Sacred abuses nailed to his mind” ―He Was Told to Man Up

Fiction & PoetryLifestyle“Sacred abuses nailed to his mind” ―He Was Told to Man Up

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2021

(Dedicated to all men who face the daily struggle of emotional marginalization in the society) Emotional waves welling up in his loins; the torrent so intense, it chokes. He needed safety and refuge; he was told to man up. Wounds and bleeds hidden in the chambers of his heart; blood of pain dripping down his chest to settle under the table of his belly, the DSS and FBIs cannot apprehend the culprit, 911 becomes a...

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Covid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

CoronavirusCovid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2021

ENUGU — The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has revealed that 2, 495, 632 eligible Nigerians have been vaccinated with the first dose while 1,370, 130 vaccinated with 1st dose have received their 2nd dose as of July 5th, 2021, the beginning of the third quarter of the year. In the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, from the breakdown on the state to state vaccination, while 184,715 persons have received the first jab...

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The Mistress, Her Escorts And The Helicopter

Fiction & PoetryNewsThe Mistress, Her Escorts And The Helicopter

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)July 5, 2021

The West African Pilot Features   By Favour Chiagozie Ebubechukwu, Staff Reporter & Features Writer   Seated on a wooden chair, there in my house, an evening came by to keep me company. She looked simple but I noticed she had some escorts. They were three in number: a rumbling cloud looking like some fairly used newspaper, a whistling and roaming breeze, and a gang of some chattering trees. They had to wait outside because my...

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Critical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

ColumnsDon OkoloOpinionCritical Race Theory and Ravages of the White Fragility Concept

PilotnewsJuly 3, 2021

Two truths are told: One of them Is entirely bull-pucky ―Don Okolo I couldn’t wait another day for my mind to undo the straps holding it down. The manacles of a particular enslavement had successfully snaked through the synapses of the once intransigent, Teflon psyche to rope it firmly. Coffee and all the bourbon in the world, the usual panacea, couldn’t do it. Every effort at untying the hardened braces to grant me my freedom...

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COVID-19 Delta Variant in 98 Countries, Continues to Mutate, WHO Warns

CoronavirusVaccinationCOVID-19 Delta Variant in 98 Countries, Continues to Mutate, WHO Warns

PilotnewsJuly 2, 2021

NEW YORK — World  Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Friday, urged leaders to push back against the daunting new COVID-19 surges, with increased vaccination efforts and public health measures. Ghebreyesus warned that with Delta variant was quickly becoming the dominant strain in many countries, saying: “we are in a very dangerous period of the pandemic’’ “In those countries with low COVID-19 vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm....

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UK’s Guide on “Consular Assistance” Reveals Britain Can’t Get Nnamdi Kanu out of Jail

Foreign PolicyNigeriaUnited KingdomUK’s Guide on “Consular Assistance” Reveals Britain Can’t Get Nnamdi Kanu out of Jail

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 2, 2021

The United Kingdom (UK)’s guide for the support for British Nationals has revealed that the Queen’s country cannot get nationals out of prisons abroad. The document has, therefore, dashed the hope of Kingsley Kanu, a brother of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who has called on the UK Government to secure the release of his sibling. Kanu, who was born on September 25, 1967, holds both Nigerian...

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Federal Government Accuses Kanu Of Killing 60 Persons, Destruction Of Property In 55 Violent Attacks

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaPeopleFederal Government Accuses Kanu Of Killing 60 Persons, Destruction Of Property In 55 Violent Attacks

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 1, 2021

ABUJA — The Federal Government has accused Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of orchestrating the killing of 60 persons and the destruction of property in 55 violent attacks across the South East and South-South Zones within four months. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Federal Government stated this in a letter dated April 26, 2021 to western diplomats. In the letter, the Nigerian government detailed the atrocities allegedly...

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