Saudi Arabia’s Leading Human Rights Defender Dies in Prison

PoliticsWorld NewsSaudi Arabia’s Leading Human Rights Defender Dies in Prison

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 25, 2020

A leading Saudi Arabia Human Rights advocate and political reform movement member, Dr. Abdullah al-Hamid, died on Friday in Prison while serving his Jailed Term. The scholar who was sentenced because of his activism had suffered a stroke on April 9. Dr. Abdullah had been in a coma in the intensive care unit at al-Shumaisi Hospital in Riyadh. He has suffered hypertension. Three months ago, Doctor told him that he needed heart surgery. However, prison...

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Trump Says U.S. States Will Be Cutting oil Production

NewsWorld NewsTrump Says U.S. States Will Be Cutting oil Production

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump says Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota are going to cut their oil production, without giving specifics on numbers, amid a glut in energy supplies and shortages of storage that led to massive drops in prices on the market. “They gotta cut,” Trump said, speaking to reporters at the White House. He also said Canada would make cuts. “I want to help that industry,” Trump said, calling himself an “energy person.” He...

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WHO Appoints Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala as COVID-19 Special Envoy

AfricaCoronavirusNewsNigeriaWHO Appoints Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala as COVID-19 Special Envoy

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday named former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as a Special Envoy for the newly inaugurated Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. She is to serve alongside British business executive, Sir Andrew Witty in the same capacity, to mobilise international commitment to the initiative. Director-General of the organisation, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the announcement during the launch of the ACT Accelerator — via webinar from Geneva. “I would...

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12 Rangers Killed in Armed Attack in National Park in DRC

AfricaNews12 Rangers Killed in Armed Attack in National Park in DRC

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

Seventeen people, including 12 rangers from Virunga National Park, died in an armed attack by an unidentified armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), local authorities said on Friday. According to a statement by Nzanzu Kasivita Carly, governor of the eastern province of North Kivu where the attack took place, four passengers and a driver were also killed in a jeep burned by the attackers. The attack was also confirmed by the...

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Nigerian, Benin Navies Foil Pirates’ Attack on Portuguese vessel

AfricaNewsNigeriaNigerian, Benin Navies Foil Pirates’ Attack on Portuguese vessel

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

Eleven crew men onboard a Portuguese flagged container ship, MV TOMMI RITSCHER, have been rescued from a pirate attack by operatives of Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service (NN SBS) and Benin Navy in Beninoius territorial waters. Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, Defence Headquarters Spokesman, said in a statement on Thursday that the pirate attack was foiled under the auspices of ECOWAS Maritime Zone E Naval operation comprising Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Niger Republic Gendarmerie. “The vessel was...

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Corona Virus: Delta State Grants Amnesty To 150 Convicts

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCorona Virus: Delta State Grants Amnesty To 150 Convicts

Beloved John (Staff Writer)April 25, 2020

The Delta Government has granted amnesty to 150 convicts in the custodial centres of the Nigerian Correctional Services across the state as part of the measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Mr. Timothy Agbaragu, the Public Relations Officer, Delta State High Court, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday. According to the amnesty was granted by the Chief Judge (CJ) of the state, Justice Marshal Umukoro....

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COVID-19: NCDC records 114 new Cases, With 855 Active, as Infections Recorded Reach 1,095

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: NCDC records 114 new Cases, With 855 Active, as Infections Recorded Reach 1,095

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 114 new cases of the coronavirus, a development that has taken the number of active cases of the virus to 855, and the total number of infections recorded so far to 1,095 as of late Friday. The centre, which disclosed this in its daily tweet, said the country’s COVID-19 cases exceeded 1,000 because of the 114 new cases recorded in nine states of the federation. According...

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NFF to Revise 2020 Budget, Cut Down on Competitions to Attend

NewsNigeriaSportsNFF to Revise 2020 Budget, Cut Down on Competitions to Attend

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Friday met via video conferencing to deliberate on important issues in Nigerian football, according to a statement from the football body. The NFF Executive Committee, according to the meeting’s eight-point communique, resolved that the Federation should revise its budget for the year, among other stringent measures. “The Executive Committee mandated the General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, to within the next four weeks and armed with the realistic...

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ASA Women USA Donates N1m to Anambra Govt COVID-19 Fight (Photos)

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaASA Women USA Donates N1m to Anambra Govt COVID-19 Fight (Photos)

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

The effort to put COVID-19 under control in Anambra State was given a boost with a donation of N1million by the Anambra State Association (ASA) Women in the United States of America. Dr. Anthonia Uche Umeh head ASA Women USA a nonprofit charity and humanitarian organization based in Washington, D.C.  During the presentation of the donation to the Anambra State Government in Awka through the Secretary to the State Government, Hon Tobe Chukwulobelu, the local...

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COVID-19: FG won’t Allow Self-Isolation for Returning Nigerians – Onyeama

CoronavirusForeign PolicyNigeriaCOVID-19: FG won’t Allow Self-Isolation for Returning Nigerians – Onyeama

PilotnewsApril 25, 2020

The Federal Government says it will not accept the request to self-isolate, by Nigerians abroad willing to come back home. “We will not accept the request to self-isolate because it will be difficult to monitor them. That is our position,” Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, said at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily briefing on Friday in Abuja. Onyeama explained that some Nigerians willing to come back home were asking for self-isolation in...

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