Government to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaGovernment to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Police Affairs said machinery had been set in motion to install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras on all major highways across the country as a measure towards curtailing kidnapping. He said the project would be a public-private partnership scheme. Dingyadi on Channels Television breakfast programme, “Sunrise Daily” said “President Muhammadu Buhari already gave approval for the project, and an agreement had been brokered with NPS Technology Company to revamp an abandoned...

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INEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

The National Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, disclosed that as of February 15, the commission had received 9,777 requests from across the country for the establishment of additional polling units. Yakubu made the disclosure when he visited the offices of the Arewa Consultative Forum office, in Kaduna, for consultation on creating additional polling units in the country. He said the requests, which were 5,700 as of October, 2020, had...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 2)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 20211

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This concludes a rejoinder by this Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, who made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. Indeed the action...

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“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

NigeriaOpinionPolitics“The bitter truth about the Igbos” –The Lies of Femi Fani Kayode (Part 1)

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. ___________ In the first part of an article...

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Femi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

NigeriaOpinionPoliticsFemi Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos

PilotnewsFebruary 16, 2021

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...

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United Arab Emirates extends suspension of flights from Nigeria

NewsNigeriaTransportationUnited Arab Emirates extends suspension of flights from Nigeria

PilotnewsFebruary 15, 2021

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extended the suspension of flights from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) from February 28 to March 10. The UAE aviation authorities made this known in the updated travel protocol posted on the website of the Emirates Airline, the flag carrier of the UAE, on Sunday afternoon. The update read, “In line with government directives, passenger services from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) to Dubai are temporarily suspended until 10 March 2021....

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My Father’s Funeral Inspires My Last Album – Vector

EntertainmentNewsNigeriaMy Father’s Funeral Inspires My Last Album – Vector

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

Olanrewaju Ogunmefun, popularly known as Vector, is one of the respected rappers in Nigeria at the moment. He is known for his punch lines. However, artist stated that he tries not to get used to being called one of the best rappers in the music industry. “I appreciate the views of the people who love my music. I appreciate that they all think I am one of the best in the music industry. It is...

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We Need to Get the Global Economic Going Again – Okonjo-Iweala

NewsNigeriaWe Need to Get the Global Economic Going Again – Okonjo-Iweala

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

The newly appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has reacted to her appointment, saying that the organization would get the global economy running again during her tenure as the WTO DG. The financial expert said this on Monday. Her appointment will take effect from March 1, 2021. She also expressed her desire to make the WTO stronger, saying that the organization would adapt to “realities of the day.” “I am...

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Okonjo-Iweala Brought More Joy and Honors to Nigeria – President Buhari

NewsNigeriaOkonjo-Iweala Brought More Joy and Honors to Nigeria – President Buhari

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, quoted President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, as congratulating Ngozi Okonjo-Iweal on her election as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Shehu quoted the President as saying that the development has brought joy and more honors to Nigeria. The statement titled, “President Buhari congratulates Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on election as DG of WTO,” read in part,  “On behalf of the Federal Government...

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A Raging Anambra Gubernatorial Race Finally Unravels A Quintessential Statesman —The Real McCoy

ColumnsDon OkoloNigeriaOpinionA Raging Anambra Gubernatorial Race Finally Unravels A Quintessential Statesman —The Real McCoy

PilotnewsFebruary 14, 2021

“Sir Damian Chibuzo Okolo possesses the moral and ethical bearings of a monk,” ―Don Okolo Esteemed Bureaucrats, especially the elected ones, are hard to find. If a nation were lucky…as in this case, any State in this haggard nation, she would, every once in a while, haul in the quintessential Statesman, whose pottery was sculpted out of porcelain. In other words, the man or woman, who is on the straight and arrow…the one, who would...

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