Floyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

Arts & CultureLaw & JusticeUnited StatesFloyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

NEW YORK  — Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in. “I watched them all, ‘Dragnet,’ ‘Adam 12,’ ‘The Wild, Wild West,’ ‘Mannix,’ ‘Cannon,’ ‘Peter Gunn’ reruns and on and on. Now these were white guys and they were tough but fair and even-handed,” he told The Associated Press in a recent email, referring to popular programs mostly...

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ANALYSES: Reasons Obaseki Should Not Leave APC Now

NewsNigeriaPoliticsANALYSES: Reasons Obaseki Should Not Leave APC Now

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 13, 2020

The narrative of the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has reached its climax with his party, All Progressive Congress (APC), disqualifying him from contesting in the party’s primary scheduled for June 22, 2020. This story of political intrigue has gotten a lot of people talking against the ruling APC but the reality remains that if Obaseki had succeeded in outsmarting Oshiomhole, many party members, especially the governors, would make many attempts to do things...

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Many Countries Ask Nigeria for Foods During Lockdown – Fashola

CoronavirusFoodNewsWest AfricaMany Countries Ask Nigeria for Foods During Lockdown – Fashola

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 13, 2020

The Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that many neighboring countries asked Nigeria for food during the lockdown that was caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The minister reveals this in an Instagram Live Chat with City People Magazine on Saturday. Fashola speaks on the COVID-19 Economic Sustainability Plan recently submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. He said that the plan contains diverse measures to strengthen the Nigerian economy against the economic...

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‘Living in Bondage – Breaking Free’ Now On Airtel TV Platform

Arts & CultureEntertainmentFilm & TV‘Living in Bondage – Breaking Free’ Now On Airtel TV Platform

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

Airtel Nigeria, in partnership with Trace Content Distribution, has announced the availability of the classic drama thriller, ‘Living in Bondage – Breaking Free’, on the Airtel TV platform. Airtel made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. It said the movie was directed by veteran actor, Ramsey Nouah and that the drama thriller was a sequel to the 1990’s blockbuster ‘Living in Bondage’ with a riveting plot and an ensemble cast, including Kanayo...

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Memo To The Senate President And House Speaker

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionMemo To The Senate President And House Speaker

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

Like we all know, one of the functions of the National Assembly include the making of laws, the controlling of the finances of the State, and also a critical role to check the actions of government. However, as it stands, history will judge you leaders and members for not being proactive in directing our economy towards enhancing its innate capacity of attaining self-sufficiency, the ultimate safety valve for debt dependence. So, Mr. Senate  President and...

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Obaseki’s Disqualification: APC Should Apologise to Edo People — Orbih

NewsNigeriaPoliticsObaseki’s Disqualification: APC Should Apologise to Edo People — Orbih

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

A PDP Chieftain in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, on Friday asked the All Progressives Congress (APC), to apologise to Edo people over its varying positions on the person of Gov. Godwin Obaseki. Orbih, the immediate past chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, made the call in Benin while reacting to the disqualification of Obaseki from APC Governorship primaries for June 22. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the screening committee for...

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Nigeria Records 627 New COVID-19 Cases, Another High for 2 Consecutive Days – NCDC

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNigeria Records 627 New COVID-19 Cases, Another High for 2 Consecutive Days – NCDC

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

Nigeria has recorded 627 new COVID-19 cases, another high for two consecutive days, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) says. In a tweet on Friday, the centre said Nigeria has 15,181 cases of the COVID-19. The NCDC also said that as at June 12, 12 deaths were recorded. The centre, however, said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours. NCDC said that Lagos state again led the state ranking...

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An Assessment of Anambra 7th House of Assembly in its One Year in Office

NigeriaPoliticsSpecial ReportAn Assessment of Anambra 7th House of Assembly in its One Year in Office

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 13, 2020

The Anambra State House of Assembly today marks its one year in office. The 7th Anambra State House of Assembly was inaugurated on the 11th day of June 2019, with all the thirty members of the Assembly representing thirty state constituencies spread across the twenty-one Local Government Areas in the state and divided proportionally among the three senatorial zones of the state; which is to say that each senatorial zone has seven local governments. Significantly,...

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Nigeria Must Hit Terrorists Where It Hurts the Most

ColumnsNational SecurityNigeriaOpinionNigeria Must Hit Terrorists Where It Hurts the Most

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

All Nigerians should be vexed about the killings that have befallen the northeastern region of Nigeria and which have also penetrated other areas of the Nigerian federation.  In a series of papers presented at the NISEC Homeland Security Conference 2014, I discussed my ideas on how to combat terrorism in Nigeria.  Israeli experts and other scholars and security specialists also enunciated their own counter-terrorism initiatives in Abuja. On this subject, today, the data—as depicted by...

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Democracy Day: Moghalu Advocates Electoral Reforms, Diaspora Voting

NewsNigeriaPoliticsDemocracy Day: Moghalu Advocates Electoral Reforms, Diaspora Voting

PilotnewsJune 12, 2020

Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, 2019 Presidential Candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), has called for electoral reforms to strengthen democracy, drive economic development, and progress in Nigeria. Moghalu who is also the Convener, To Build A Nation (TBAN) initiative, made the call in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Friday as the nation celebrated Democracy Day on June 12. According to him, for democracy to have real...

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