U.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

CoronavirusEconomyWorld NewsU.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Thursday that around one trillion dollars of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a proposed global deal. The UN agency said that the plan was to help them overcome the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s developing economies, which were already struggling with a rapidly growing debt burden, must now confront a record global downturn, plummeting prices for their oil and...

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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

ColumnsCoronavirusOpinionCOVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Isolation from COVID-19 pandemic calls for resourcefulness: engagement and ways to encourage exercising the mind and body. _____ Many nations, including Nigeria, are on lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus. This brings to mind that we had been enjoying the privilege of liberty all along without even knowing it! The powerful is shaken, and the vulnerable weakened even the more. States closed their borders to forestall movement of persons. Except for the medical sector...

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COVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

CoronavirusUnited StatesCOVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO, has called on the Federal and State Governments to take necessary measures to halt community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Mr. Isah Ibrahim, its Nutrition Advocacy Advisor, Kaduna State Field Office, made the appeal in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna. According to him, community transmission of COVID-19 can have an unimaginable impact on children. ”More preventive actions need to be taken to ensure the protection and well-being of...

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Australia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

CoronavirusWorld NewsAustralia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday threw his weight behind calls for an international inquiry into China’s initial response to the coronavirus and its origins. “I think such an inquiry is important and we can respectfully have a difference of view from that that has been put by China,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday. In his comments Morrison backed his foreign minister, Marise Payne, who on Sunday called for an independent inquiry,...

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Covid-19: Minister Raises Alarm Over Influx of Destitutes in FCT

NewsNigeriaPovertyCovid-19: Minister Raises Alarm Over Influx of Destitutes in FCT

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Wednesday, raised alarm over the influx of destitute into the territory from neighbouring states in spite of the current lockdown in Abuja. , Minister of State for FCT made the statement while inspecting palliative items at Tunga Mage community in Gwagwalada Area Council, for onward distribution to the vulnerable at Kwali Area Council. Aliyu, who said that FCT was not a dumping ground, warned that anyone caught aiding...

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HEADLINER: Whitney Houston Biopic Being Produced for Film

EntertainmentFilmUnited StatesHEADLINER: Whitney Houston Biopic Being Produced for Film

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Whitney Houston is headed back to the big screen in a feature film about the singer’s life that took her to the heights of fame but ended in drug addiction and tragedy. Taking its title from one of Houston’s biggest hits – “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” – the film has the backing of the singer’s estate and her longtime record producer and mentor Clive Davis, producers said. They described the film as a “joyous,...

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Nigeria Records 91 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 873

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNigeria Records 91 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Now 873

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has recorded  91 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the pandemic outbreak in the country. In a tweet, on, Wednesday night the NCDC said the 91 new cases were reported from nine states. The states are Lagos (74), Katsina (five) Ogun (four), Edo (two), Delta (two), FCT (one), Adamawa (one), Kwara (one) and Oyo (one). It said that the country’s total infections have now risen to 873. While deaths have risen...

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COVID-19: 72 Nigerians Awaiting Evacuation in China Tested Positive

CoronavirusNigeriaWorld NewsCOVID-19: 72 Nigerians Awaiting Evacuation in China Tested Positive

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

72 Nigerians in China have been tested positive for the coronavirus disease. These are Nigerians in Guangdong Province of China who are waiting for evacuation. According to reports, 56 Nigerians tested, and the results released on Tuesday. The results showed that the persons were asymptomatic. It created some worry that they might have infected others. It was reported that 16 Nigerians had earlier tested positive for COVID-19, which brought the total number of infected persons...

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Covid-19: Governors Agree on Inter State Lockdown

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCovid-19: Governors Agree on Inter State Lockdown

Beloved John (Staff Writer)April 23, 2020

The Nigerian Governors Forum has called for the decentralisation of COVID-19 responses from federal to local governments to contain the spread of the pandemic. The forum also agreed to an interstate lockdown for two weeks. A statement by the chairman of the forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, described the decentralisation idea as the best chance of nipping the spread of the virus in communities. Mr. Fayemi said this was imperative as a result...

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Stopping Corruption and Prostitution in Nigerian Banks (Part 1)

ColumnsMoneyNigeriaSpecial ReportStopping Corruption and Prostitution in Nigerian Banks (Part 1)

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

In the last 20 years, Nigerian banks have not only become irredeemable money laundering organizations, they have also institutionalized the immoral exploitation of their female employees. It’s time somebody or some people did something about it. In this two-part article which I originally wrote three years ago, I lay out the enormity of these twin problems. There is a kind of person called a “pimp.” Not the “PIMP” described by my late father Dr. Nnanna...

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