Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

BlogNigeriaOpinionNigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War

PilotnewsJuly 1, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made...

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World Igbo Congress Cautions FG on the Safety of Nnamdi Kanu

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaWorld Igbo Congress Cautions FG on the Safety of Nnamdi Kanu

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 30, 2021

The World Igbo Congress (WIC) has cautioned the Nigerian authorities on the safety of the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB, Nnamdi Kani. The WIC maintained that the rights of the secessionist leader must be protected. In 2017, Kanu jumped bail but was rearrested and brought back to Nigeria on Tuesday. He is facing treason charges and was remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) as directed...

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Federal Government Ban Travelers From Four Countries Into Nigeria

CoronavirusTravelFederal Government Ban Travelers From Four Countries Into Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 29, 2021

The Federal Government has banned travelers from South Africa, Brazil, India, and Turkey by one month due to the rising COVID-19 cases there. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this in Abuja on Monday at the briefing of the committee. “The four major variants of concern are now classified as Alpha (UK), Beta (SA); Gamma (Brazil) and Delta (India). The Delta variant which...

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OPINION: Former President Obasanjo Argues for the Unity of Nigeria

NigeriaPoliticsOPINION: Former President Obasanjo Argues for the Unity of Nigeria

PilotnewsJune 24, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger Against a backdrop of growing calls for ethnically based separatism, including in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s native Yorubaland, the former president in a speech laid out the arguments for maintaining Nigeria’s unity—though not at any cost. Speaking June 9 in the Yoruba heartland city of Abeokuta, where he lives in retirement, Obasanjo argued that Nigerians will fare better staying together: “it is better for Nigeria to remain as one indivisible nation...

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Africa’s Energy Deficit May Thwart Attainment of SDG-7 On Electricity Access, Says ECA

AfricaEconomyAfrica’s Energy Deficit May Thwart Attainment of SDG-7 On Electricity Access, Says ECA

PilotnewsJune 23, 2021

LAGOS — Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal-7 may elude Africa, due to limited supply and access to electricity, says Ms. Vera Songwe, the United Nations under-secretary-general and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).  Songwe stated this in her presentation at a virtual ministerial meeting in Addis Ababa, according to a statement on Wednesday by the Communication Section of the ECA. The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the SDG-7 is one...

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NEWS ANALYSIS: The Economic And Political Factors Behind 10 Governors Who Have Dissolved Cabinets In 2021

PoliticsSpecial ReportNEWS ANALYSIS: The Economic And Political Factors Behind 10 Governors Who Have Dissolved Cabinets In 2021

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 23, 2021

Between January and now, about ten governors have mystically sacked members of or dissolved their cabinets. The factors responsible for this process can be analyzed from two sides of the events in the country. The first was to build loyalty within their cabinets and camps ahead of the 2023 elections while the other was the economic catastrophe bedeviling the country, particularly the decision of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) not to make its statutory...

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Court Awards N81.9 Billion Damages Against Mobil, NNPC Over Oil Spillage

EnvironmentNewsOil & GasCourt Awards N81.9 Billion Damages Against Mobil, NNPC Over Oil Spillage

Beloved John (Staff Writer)June 22, 2021

ABUJA — To compensate the communities polluted by oil spillage in Ibeno LGA, Akwa Ibom, a federal high court in Abuja has awarded a sum of N81.9 billion as damages to the oil-producing communities. The court awarded the sum against Mobil producing Nigeria unlimited and its partner, Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) on the ground that the negligence of both companies caused the communities significant losses. A sum of N42.8 million was awarded to the...

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Insist On Power Rotation To Southern Nigeria In 2023, Prof. Moghalu Calls On Ndigbo

NewsPoliticsInsist On Power Rotation To Southern Nigeria In 2023, Prof. Moghalu Calls On Ndigbo

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 21, 2021

ENUGU — Professor Kingsley Moghalu at the inauguration ceremony of Igbonine, a socio-cultural organization called on Ndigbo to look beyond political party and focus on the emergence of a competent and visionary Nigeria President from South-East extraction capable of moving Nigeria and all its component parts and peoples forward. This is one of the eight needs enumerated by Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria and 2019 Presidential Candidate in his keynote address;...

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Central Bank Of Nigeria To Cultivate Over 500,000 Hectares Of Farmland In Northeast

AgricultureFoodCentral Bank Of Nigeria To Cultivate Over 500,000 Hectares Of Farmland In Northeast

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 21, 2021

MAIDUGURI — Northeast Zonal Coordinator, Development Finance Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN Mr. Mahmood Nyako has commenced mapping of over 500,000 hecters of farmland for the cultivation of rice in the northeast cropping season. Nyako disclosed this during a meeting with the leadership of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria RIFAN, Borno state chapter in Maiduguri. He expressed confidence that with the special programme embarked by the Central Bank for the dry and...

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U.S. Administered 300m COVID-19 Vaccines In 150 Days – Biden

CoronavirusUnited StatesVaccinationU.S. Administered 300m COVID-19 Vaccines In 150 Days – Biden

PilotnewsJune 19, 2021

NEW YORK — U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said the U.S. had administered 300 million COVID-19 vaccines in 150 days, noting that COVID-19 cases and deaths have decreased by more than 90 per cent. Biden said this in“300 Million Shots in 150 Days: The President’s COVID-19 Strategy is Delivering for Americans’’ issued to commemorate his 150 days in office. According to the statement, when Biden took office 150 days ago, more than 3,300 Americans...

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