Anti-Cult Police Squad Abduction: “Cultism is a Big Issue Now in Anambra State”, Anambra Residents React

Crime & SecurityNewsAnti-Cult Police Squad Abduction: “Cultism is a Big Issue Now in Anambra State”, Anambra Residents React

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)July 27, 2020

The West African Pilot News story was to bring to light the arbitrary tactics of invading homes of suspects and arresting them by the police Ant-Cult Squad in Anambra. The residents of young men suspected to be members of cult groups are invaded in the dead of the night and arrested. Some of our readers and residents of Anambra state have reached out to complain about the activities of cult groups in parts of the...

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Achebe Disappointed Me With His Comment on My Nobel Prize – Soyinka

Arts & CultureNewsPeopleAchebe Disappointed Me With His Comment on My Nobel Prize – Soyinka

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 26, 2020

Africa’s first Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed his disappointment over a comment made by the late renowned novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe, soon after he (Soyinka) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Soyinka disclosed this in a conversation with an American-based Nigerian novelist, Okay Ndibe, which was aired on Channels Television’s ‘Book Club’, Soyinka said that he considered the remark as uncalled for and disappointing. During the conversation with Soyinka, Ndibe recalls...

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COVID-19: Number of infections Rises to 39,977 With 438 New Cases

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: Number of infections Rises to 39,977 With 438 New Cases

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 438 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rise to 39,977. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday. It stated that regrettably 11 deaths were recorded in the country. According to it, 39,977 cases have been confirmed, 16,948 cases have been discharged and 856 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory....

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13 Religious Sisters Die from Coronavirus in Michigan Convent

NewsReligion13 Religious Sisters Die from Coronavirus in Michigan Convent

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

They were former school teachers, librarians, historians and nurses, among other vocations. Culled from Today.Com A convent in Michigan is still reeling after 13 sisters, all longtime members, died last month from the coronavirus. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Convent first lost Sister Mary Luiza Wawrzyniak, 99, on Good Friday, and then 11 more sisters in quick succession. One sister, Mary Danatha (Danuta) Suchyta, initially survived COVID-19 but died from its “residual effects,” bringing...

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GEJ Meets PMB: A Lesson for Bitter-Enders — by Femi Adesina

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionGEJ Meets PMB: A Lesson for Bitter-Enders — by Femi Adesina

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

Anyone who today persists in a cause or action despite difficult or hopeless circumstances, is called a Bitter-Ender. —Femi Adesina In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, and wanted him to continue in office for another term of four years. On the flip side were the Buharists (I was one, and remain...

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A Nollywood film about two women in love shakes Nigeria’s homophobic culture

FilmLifestyleNigeriaA Nollywood film about two women in love shakes Nigeria’s homophobic culture

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

Two women lay in bed in a tight embrace, one is stroking the other’s hair and whispers that she is in love with her. These intimate scenes wouldn’t be out of place in a Hollywood movie, but in Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, they are near taboo. But Nigerian filmmaker Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim says she is tackling the subject head-on in her new film titled “Ife,” to create space for queer characters in the country’s prolific movie industry....

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EKSG Introduces Teaching of ICT from Primary School, Reviews Laws

EducationNewsEKSG Introduces Teaching of ICT from Primary School, Reviews Laws

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

Ekiti State Government on Saturday announced introduction of new education policy that will accommodate teaching of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), from primary school level. The new development was made known in a statement in Ado Ekiti by the Commissioner for Information, Chief Muyiwa Olumilua. He said that the policy was part of decisions taken late Friday at a virtual meeting of the State Executive Council, presided over by Gov. Kayode Fayemi. According to him, the Executive...

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Group Empowers Victims of Human Trafficking from Oyo

Foreign PolicyNewsGroup Empowers Victims of Human Trafficking from Oyo

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

A sociopolitical group, Omitutun Initiative in the Diaspora (OID), has empowered victims of human trafficking recently rescued from Lebanon and returned to Oyo State. The group presented a one million naira cheque to the state government at the governor’s office on Saturday in Ibadan in support of the victims. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the cheque was received on behalf of the state government by Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu, Gov. Seyi Makinde’s aide on Diaspora Affairs. NAN also reports...

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1,775 Babies Delivered in OPM free Hospitals – Management

HealthNews1,775 Babies Delivered in OPM free Hospitals – Management

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

The management of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), free specialist hospital says about 1,775 babies have been delivered in its facilities located in Port Harcourt, Rivers, and Ohanku community in Abia. A statement issued on Sunday by the OPM Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Gogo-Ogute Isaiah, said that 549 of the deliveries were recorded in their hospital in Rivers, while 1,226 were recorded in Abia. Isaiah quoted the Director of the hospital Dr Enighe Ugboma, as saying that the...

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Lawmaker Advocates Life Imprisonment for Rapists

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsLawmaker Advocates Life Imprisonment for Rapists

PilotnewsJuly 26, 2020

A lawmaker representing Ipokia-Idiroko constituency in the Ogun House of Assembly, Mrs Sikiratu Ajibola, has prescribed life imprisonment for rapists in the country. Ajibola made the suggestion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Sunday. Ajibola, who is also the House committee chairman on Women Affairs and Social Development, expressed sadness over the recent development, especially as it concerned minors in the society. She said that time was ripe to enact a law to punish...

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