OPINION: Africa at the Center of Twenty-First-Century Demographic Shift

AfricaDemography and PopulationOpinionOPINION: Africa at the Center of Twenty-First-Century Demographic Shift

PilotnewsJune 4, 2021

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger   As the results of the 2020 U.S. national census become known, the American media is digesting the finding that the country’s population is no longer growing. The May 23 Sunday New York Times lead article “above the fold” highlighted how new a stagnant or declining birthrate and immigration is for the United States. The United States is joining Europe and East Asia, where a demographic decline and collapse of birth rates...

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Teachers Yet To Get New Special Salary Package, Nearly Seven Months After President’s Pronouncement

EducationJobsNigeriaTeachers Yet To Get New Special Salary Package, Nearly Seven Months After President’s Pronouncement

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2021

ABUJA — Nearly seven months after the pronouncement by President Muhammadu Buhari on the approval of a special salary scale for teachers, the implementation of the scale is yet to take effect. President Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, during the World Teachers Day celebration in October 2020 also reviewed upward their retirement age to 65 and said the approval was to take effect immediately. The president also approved the...

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Federal Govt, UNDP Set To Launch 20,000 Graduate Job Fellowship Yearly

EconomyJobsNigeriaFederal Govt, UNDP Set To Launch 20,000 Graduate Job Fellowship Yearly

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)June 3, 2021

ABUJA — Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other private sector partners are set to launch a 20,000 yearly graduate job fellowship to be called the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP). Osinbajo said the 12-month job fellowship programme would be flagged off by President Muhammadu Buhari and urged business leaders, captains of industry, development partners, and the diplomatic community to support the program aimed...

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Moghalu Condemns Tagging IPOB As Terrorists

National DevelopmentNational SecurityMoghalu Condemns Tagging IPOB As Terrorists

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 2, 2021

LAGOS — The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has called on the Federal Government to dialogue with secessionists. He believed that addressing the root causes of their agitations will help in dousing the tension in some parts of the country. The former Presidential Candidate made the call on Wednesday while appearing on Channels Television’s morning programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’, he believes that the agitators felt marginalized and are demanding...

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Constitution Review: 1999 Constitution Needs Amendment — Gbajabiamila

National DevelopmentNewsConstitution Review: 1999 Constitution Needs Amendment — Gbajabiamila

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 2, 2021

ABUJA — Speaker of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has described the 1999 constitution as the result of a hurried national compromise that has contributed to the country’s challenges. The zonal public hearing which is taking place across the country’s six geopolitical zones commenced today and is to last till Thursday (June 1-3) Speaking at the zonal hearing in Lagos on Tuesday, Gbajabiamila said Gbajabiamila said the constitution is below standards. He noted that...

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Biafra’s “May 30 solemnness” is now a shameful blood-spattered rite of remembrance.

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionBiafra’s “May 30 solemnness” is now a shameful blood-spattered rite of remembrance.

PilotnewsJune 2, 2021

Desperate activists bastardize Biafra’s “May 30, sacredness” into an outrageous blood-spattered rite of remembrance. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of U.S. servicemen. America, divided by ideological differences concerning warfare, united behind a declaration of war with Japan. That is the power of communal closeness after a tragedy. Thus, the psychology of unity after tragedy remains a natural phenomenon that instills a feeling of closeness following a tragedy. It breaks down walls...

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May 30: Biafra’s Declaration Remembrance is utterly Imperative

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionMay 30: Biafra’s Declaration Remembrance is utterly Imperative

PilotnewsJune 1, 2021

“Moving on, the government must not give its citizens the impression that they are less wanted to remain part of the union”―Ebuka Onyekwelu No matter how successive Nigerian government decides to view the Biafra declaration which then led to a civil war that left no fewer than three million Easterners dead, the fact that cannot be disputed is, the event, cannot be erased in Nigeria’s existential history. And so, of all the possible cause of...

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Biafra Remembrance Day: Situation Report of Compliance to Sit-At-Home Order In Enugu

NewsBiafra Remembrance Day: Situation Report of Compliance to Sit-At-Home Order In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)May 31, 2021

ENUGU — The Biafra Remembrance Day, May 30 every year was set aside in remembrance of millions of Biafrans who died during the three-year civil war in Nigeria. The Republic of Biafra made up of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, existed from May 1967 to January 1970 during the Nigerian Civil War. After Biafra’s declaration of independence, Nigeria declared war on the nascent state; millions lost their lives especially children and the Biafran forces under...

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Northern Governors Agrees To Adopt Open Ranching

BusinessNorthern Governors Agrees To Adopt Open Ranching

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 30, 2021

KADUNA — The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has agreed to adopt ranching and asked the federal government to release funds for the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP). Plateau State Governor, Senator Simon Lalong and Chairman of the forum made this disclosure yesterday during the seventh Annual Lecture of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in Kaduna, saying open grazing is unsustainable and initiated measures to end it. At the annual lecture yesterday, Lalong...

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Why We Allow Younger Pilots To Fly Army Chief, Others – Official

Accidents and SafetyMilitaryWhy We Allow Younger Pilots To Fly Army Chief, Others – Official

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 30, 2021

ABUJA — The Nigerian Air Force has said the capability of its pilots should not be questioned despite the recent NAF plane crashes, which included last Friday’s crash which claimed the lives of the Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other military personnel. A NAF Beechcraft King Air 350i crashed at the Kaduna civil airport after the pilot diverted from the military airport because of bad weather. It was the second time that...

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