The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is to induct the newly acquired Agusta 109E (M) Power helicopters and an Mi-17IE combat helicopter on Thursday, Feb.6, at the Eagle Square, Abuja. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, made announcement in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Daramola said rehearsals for activities that formed part of the induction ceremony would involve the movement of military aircraft flying at low level as from Monday,...
Did you think I was talking about the weather? Since this is Texas, patience is a good virtue to covet. A state as independent as its size, you might expect lone stars everywhere. Even in the white and darkened clouds of the skies. You must be alert, he said, the variegated clouds can become a Lone Ranger. The highway into her interiors undoes myths developed in a darkroom, To show clearly the stuff of legends;...
Four years ago, Majek Oscar (not real name) thought the cause of his temporary loss of sight was mere eyes infection. Then in 2018, after initial denial, he experienced series of signs that made him feel all was not well and confirmed the fear of his family and friends that he was not feeling well. He started having fever, coughing persistently, feeling extremely tired and boils developed all over his body. “It is a very...
More than five years after he left office, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan GCFR, GCON might technically still be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, based on the standards set by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It may be recalled that Dr. Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election to former military ruler and now the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari. However, on the website of Embassy of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, China, Dr. Jonathan’s...
The former governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulazizi Yari has berated the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for staging nationwide protest against the judgment of the Supreme Court that on January 14, 2020 sacked Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo state. Ex-governor Yari who surprisingly paid a visit to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja said that PDP was making noise...
Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan China has exposed the incapability of the Nigerian Embassy in China. The Embassy does not care about Nigerians , West African Pilot can authoritatively report. A disease outbreak that has ravaged Hubei province where Wuhan is located, but no information about the disease or the people of Nigeria is seen on the Nigerian Embassy website in China. Already, Coronavirus cases have been reported in more than 20 countries around the world...
Apple Inc on Saturday said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb 9. as fears over the coronavirus outbreak mounted and the death toll more than doubled to over 250 from a week ago. “Out of an abundance of caution and based on the latest advice from leading health experts, we’re closing all our corporate offices, stores, and contact centers in mainland China through Feb. 9,”...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says it will continue to work closely with states affected by the Lassa fever outbreak in the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak. It said the move was to ensure that the 95 confirmed cases of Lassa fever in some states across the country within the week were effectively managed. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday in Abuja that the...
Eritrea blasts U.S. visa ban, Nigeria creates committee to address issues Eritrea denounced a U.S. ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable” on Saturday, while Nigeria’s government said it had created a committee to address the issues that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to add the country to the ban. Nigeria and Eritrea were among six countries, four of them in Africa, added to an expanded version of the U.S. visa ban announced...
President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted a committee, to be chaired by the Minister of Interior, Ra’uf Aregbesola, to study the reason why the United State banned Nigerians from its immigration visa. According to a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday, the committee will work with the U.S Government, INTERPOL and other stakeholders to ensure all updates are properly implemented. The president further charged the...
