Buhari Returns to Abuja After 4-day Official Visit to Daura, Katsina State

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBuhari Returns to Abuja After 4-day Official Visit to Daura, Katsina State

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2021

ABUJA —  President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday returned to Abuja after a four-day official visit to Daura, his hometown in Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Presidential aircraft carrying the president and some presidential aides landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 5.p.m. NAN reports that the president was welcomed at the airport by his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Minister of...

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Senate Committee Rejects Voting Rights for Married Underage Girls

LifestyleNigeriaPoliticsSenate Committee Rejects Voting Rights for Married Underage Girls

Beloved John (Staff Writer)February 2, 2021

ABUJA —  Senator Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the suggestion that married underage girls should have the right to vote has been rejected. The senator disclosed this while at the NAN Forum in Abuja on Tuesday. The matter had generated widespread criticism when it was brought up in the senate in December 2020. According to Gaya, a memorandum on the matter was “submitted by...

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Obasanjo Expresses Concerns Over Buhari’s Failure on Corruption and Security

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaObasanjo Expresses Concerns Over Buhari’s Failure on Corruption and Security

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 1, 2021

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed grave concerns over the increased banditry in the north-west region of the country, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from. Obasanjo asked Buhari to wake up and fight banditry and other growing crimes, especially in the northern part of Nigeria. The ex-President spoke on Sunday in a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, urging Buhari to start leaving an enduring legacy as President. The ex-President said, “I thought...

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Lekki Shooting: Reddington Hospital Confirms Treatment Of Victims, Nigerians React

Law & JusticeNewsLekki Shooting: Reddington Hospital Confirms Treatment Of Victims, Nigerians React

Beloved John (Staff Writer)February 1, 2021

Several reactions have trailed the testimony of Reddington Hospital on the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2020, which halted the two weeks long demonstration against Police brutality. On Saturday, during cross-examination with the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Dr. Babajide Lawson, a physician with Reddington Hospital confirmed to the panel that the victims of the shooting were treated in the hospital facility. His testimony countered that of the military who claimed that no...

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Messi Creates Another Record as FC Barcelona Beat Athletic Bilbao

NewsSoccerSportsMessi Creates Another Record as FC Barcelona Beat Athletic Bilbao

PilotnewsJanuary 31, 2021

BARCELONA  —  FC Barcelona moved a place up into second in the Spanish La Liga on Sunday after a 2-1 win over Athletic Bilbao, with club captain Lionel Messi entering the record books again. Barca went ahead after 20 minutes, when Lionel Messi scored directly from a free-kick for his 650th goal in 750 games for the club. Athletic Bilbao came back into it when Jordi Alba put past Marc-Andre ter Stegen after 49 minutes....

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FG Disburses Grants to 2,800 Women in Enugu

InvestingNational DevelopmentNewsFG Disburses Grants to 2,800 Women in Enugu

PilotnewsJanuary 31, 2021

ENUGU  — The Federal Government on Sunday began the disbursement of grants to 2,800 rural women in Enugu State under the Grant for Rural Women Project. Hajia Sadiya Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, said that the project was part of the Federal Government`s National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). Farouk, who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Bashir Alkali, said the programme was designed...

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Maritime Transport Policy to Unlock Nigeria’s Blue economy – NPA MD

EconomyInfrastructureNewsNigeriaMaritime Transport Policy to Unlock Nigeria’s Blue economy – NPA MD

PilotnewsJanuary 31, 2021

LAGOS —  Hadiza Bala-Usman, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has identified the National Maritime Transport Policy as key to unlocking the huge potential and vast opportunities in the nation’s blue economy. Bala-Usman said this in a statement Ibrahim Nasiru, NPA Assistant General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, issued to newsmen on Sunday in Lagos. According to her, a well-articulated National Maritime Transport Policy will support local content development and create good value jobs. She...

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Maryam Abacha Varsity Niger Donates 3 Luxury Buses to BUK, Others –Spokesman

EducationNewsPhilanthropyMaryam Abacha Varsity Niger Donates 3 Luxury Buses to BUK, Others –Spokesman

PilotnewsJanuary 30, 2021

KANO  —  Maryam Abacha American University Niger (MAAUN), Maradi, in collaboration with AAG-Foundation, has donated 60-seater Mercedes-Benz luxury buses to three universities, comprising two Nigerian, and one Nigerien,  a statement issued by the institution on Saturday, in Kano, has said. The statement by Mr. Ali Kakaki, MAAUN spokesman, disclosed that the donation was part of the institution’s education sub-Sector Support Initiative in the West African (ECOWAS/CEDEAO) sub-Region. According to him, the gesture was to ease...

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War Songs of Betrayal —Inglorious Mobs that Stormed the Capitol

ColumnsDon OkoloNigeriaOpinionWar Songs of Betrayal —Inglorious Mobs that Stormed the Capitol

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

…look in this place ran Cassius dagger through. See what a rent the envious Casca made. And through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed…’ The quote above was Mark Anthony’s. He was lamenting the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar, in the Capitol, by a bunch of Senators. When the desire to kill Caesar was baking in the mind of one Caius Cassius, he took his crazy idea for the political dethroning of Julius Caesar out to...

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OPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusOpinionOPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced that the COVID-19 case fatality rate in Africa is now 2.5 percent, higher than the worldwide level of 2.2 percent. (According to Johns Hopkins University, in the United States the rate is 1.7 percent; in New Zealand, 1.1 percent.) In twenty-one countries on the continent the case fatality rate is 3 percent or higher. Africa CDC announced that there were 207,000 new cases the week of...

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