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PilotnewsMarch 17, 2020
Chief Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti and immediate past National Deputy Chairman of APC, on Monday confirmed that he was dumping the party for the PDP. Oni, who spoke to journalists in Ado Ekiti, claimed he was leaving the APC due to ill-treatment and lack of respect for his person by the party. He also alleged that he was shabbily treated by the APC, adding that he and his supporters were ostracised from...
NewsNigeriaOshiomhole: Buhari meets governors, as Tuesday’s APC NEC meeting postponed
PilotnewsMarch 16, 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, met behind closed doors with governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting was unknown as at the time filing this report. However, Gov. Atiku Bagudu, who led the governors to the meeting with Buhari, announced the postponement of the APC National Executive Committee meeting earlier scheduled for Tuesday....
A Nigerian vocalist and songwriter, Timi Dakolo, has released his first project for 2020 titled ‘Take’, featuring popular Nigerian rapper and YBNL boss, Olamide. Dakolo got his breakthrough into the Nigerian music industry after he emerged winner of the inaugural season of Idols West Africa in 2007. His win came with a recording contract with Sony BMG which gave his music career the needed boost. The Pheelz produced track, ‘Take’ is a love song which...
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has signed the Ekiti State Security Network Agency Bill, otherwise known as “Amotekun Corps” into Law. Signing the bill into law in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, the governor warned criminals to turn a new leaf, or relocate to alternative places, as it will henceforth not be business as usual for them. According to him, Amotekun will help the police to gather intelligence and information, while police would arrest and prosecute the...
Fiction & PoetryLifestyleI am Sure of Something
PilotnewsMarch 16, 2020
O breezy smile you create for me A world that stayed with patience beyond time. I do not need to worry out patience as I wait out this sweet pain on the edge of this world. The Texas heat too, even the humidity and pattern of repressed air is precisely the same as broke my heart. For time passing —now I am sure of something! Something will be ours, but what? Was it whenever we...
NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu Takes a Stand on Oshiomhole’s Battle, Says 2023 Ambition Destroying Party
PilotnewsMarch 16, 2020
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given his support for the All Progressive Congress (APC) embattled chairman, saying that Oshiomhole was human with both merits and flaws and this should not be a basis for his dismissal. In a statement released on Sunday ahead of the APC National Executive Council (NEC) meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow where the fate of Mr. Oshiomhole would be known, Mr. Tinubu expressed his disappointment at the plot to remove...
NewsNigeriaSanusi: It is easy to get the throne back, but I have moved on
Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 15, 2020
The deposed Emir Muhammad Sanusi II, has said he could get back the throne if he wanted because removing him was illegally done in the first place. Malam Sanusi boasted in a video where he spoke after he was released from house arrest in both Loko and Awe in Nasarawa State following an order by a Federal High Court in Abuja. He then flew to Lagos accompanied by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai....
AfricaHealthNewsNigeriaBreaking: One suspected coronavirus case in Enugu State
Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2020
The faith of a patient who has shown signs of the novel coronavirus will be known by Monday, few hours from now. According to reliable medical personnel, the patient has been sick and undergoing treatment before now. However based on suggestive signs of the dreaded virus, the patient was isolated, samples collected and tested for the virus; results of the test will be known tomorrow. The scope of the virus spread in the country has...