Post-COVID-19: Tough Times Await a Troubled Nigeria’s Educational System

EducationNigeriaSpecial ReportPost-COVID-19: Tough Times Await a Troubled Nigeria’s Educational System

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

How Nigeria’s Years of Mistakes Present a Tough Future for the Education Sector Post-Covid-19 No one envisaged that five years after world leaders agreed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities by 2030 — as part of the Sustainable Development Goals — governments will be forced to shut schools over fear of COVID-19 spreading. Data are not looking good for global education. As of March, schools in 168 countries have...

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NEWS ANALYSIS: Will Nigeria’s Battle with COVID-19 Become Too Expensive to Sustain?

CoronavirusEconomyNigeriaNEWS ANALYSIS: Will Nigeria’s Battle with COVID-19 Become Too Expensive to Sustain?

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)May 28, 2020

For every COVID-19 test carried out on suspected persons, Lagos, Nigeria’s epicenter of the viral infection with a population of over 20 million, spends between N40,000 and N50,000 ($102.56 – $128.21), Professor Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health disclosed. The revelation by Prof. Abayomi highlights the magnitude of the burden of the disease and raises questions about the sustainability of the fight against COVID-19. With an estimated population of 200 million and a virus...

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Francis Compromised Wisely in Protracted Drama of Bishop Okpaleke’s Appointment

NewsFrancis Compromised Wisely in Protracted Drama of Bishop Okpaleke’s Appointment

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

The bishop died. But the ordinary means of providing a new ordinary — the church’s term for a head bishop — became far from ordinary. The timing of such a transition, as well as the selection of a new bishop, is by custom, up to the pope. In this case, it took 26 months to complete the formal process, but that came nowhere near filling the vacancy. What ensued became a striking example of conflicting...

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The WHO and the Challenge of Managing the Novel Pandemic

ColumnsCoronavirusOpinionThe WHO and the Challenge of Managing the Novel Pandemic

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

World Health Organization (WHO) has been facing a lot of backlash from around the world for varying degrees of accusations bothering on its inability to meet the expectations of different people across the globe in its efforts managing COVID-19.  The US President has accused the WHO of negligence and failing in its duty to alert the world of the seriousness of coronavirus in Wuhan China despite being fully aware of the danger it then poses...

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US Death Toll From Coronavirus Surges Past 100,000 People

CoronavirusNewsUnited StatesUS Death Toll From Coronavirus Surges Past 100,000 People

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths. That number is the best estimate and most assuredly an undercount. But it represents the stark reality that more Americans have died from the virus than from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. “It’s a striking reminder of how dangerous this virus can be,” said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington. The once-unthinkable toll...

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LASG Moves to Criminalize Infrastructure Vandalism

Crime & SecurityInfrastructureNewsLASG Moves to Criminalize Infrastructure Vandalism

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said that it would enforce laws to stop damage to public infrastructure, especially roads. Mrs Aramide Adeyoye, Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, said this while taking questions from newsmen during the 2020 ministerial press briefing. The briefing was also to commemorate first anniversary of the Sanwo-Olu administration. Adeyoye, who lamented excess loading, indiscriminate road cutting and burning, as well as theft of manholes covers,...

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Coastal Erosion: LASG Seeks N400 bn From FG

EnvironmentInfrastructureNewsCoastal Erosion: LASG Seeks N400 bn From FG

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

The Lagos State Government has called on the Federal Government to assist it with about N400 billion to complete efforts in saving the nation’s coastlines from erosion, already threatening some parts of the state. The Lagos State Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure Development, Mr Kabiru Abdullahi, made the appeal while taking questions from journalists during the 2020 ministerial press briefing to commemorate the first anniversary of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration. Abdullahi said that the state...

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Trump to Issue Executive Order on Social Media — Reports

PoliticsPress * MediaUnited StatesTrump to Issue Executive Order on Social Media — Reports

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on social media on Thursday, according to local media reports. The reports, citing unnamed White House officials, came a day after microblogging site, Twitter, tagged Trump’s  tweets on mail-in voting as misleading. In the tweets, the president told his over 80 million followers that voting through mail, otherwise known as mail-in ballots, was prone to fraud. Shortly after, Twitter tagged the tweets with a circled...

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Targeting of AFDB and Adesina by the US is Consistent With Trump’s Arrogance and Racist Demeanor

Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionTargeting of AFDB and Adesina by the US is Consistent With Trump’s Arrogance and Racist Demeanor

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

With the pattern of duplicity and cruelty that conjures the Donald Trump’s policy actions against the people of color, tell me how these ethically malnourished oppressors can educate any organization about good character and accountability? For clarity, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is not like Chase. Nope, it is not the traditional bank where folks drive through a narrow pathway to use the ATM. It is a bilateral development finance institution facilitating sustainable economic and...

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Nigeria Records 389 New Cases of COVID-19, Highest Daily Figure Ever, NCDC Says

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNigeria Records 389 New Cases of COVID-19, Highest Daily Figure Ever, NCDC Says

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

Nigeria on Wednesday reported 389 new confirmed new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total of confirmed infections in the country to 8,733. NAN reports that the figure is the highest daily cases so far reported since the beginning of the outbreak in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its official twitter handle, said that five deaths were also recorded. The NCDC says one new state, Kogi, has reported a case in the last...

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