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Pamela Peter-Vigboro Leesi emerged the winner of Miss Nigeria 2015 after beating 35 other contestants to the most coveted crown.
http://nigerianpilot.com/pamela-peter-vigboro-wins-miss-nigeria-2015/

Even as the euphoria of a fifth FIFA U-17 World Cup triumph by the Golden Eaglets is yet to subside, pioneer skipper of the team which won the 1985 inaugural tournament in Tokyo, Japan, Nduka Ugbade has described the boys as ‘’global heroes.’’
http://nigerianpilot.com/golden-eaglets-are-global-heroes-ugbade/

The Super Eagles will begin training on Tuesday in preparation for Friday’s first-leg second round fixture in Lobamba for their FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifier against Swaziland.
http://nigerianpilot.com/2018-wc-qualifier-super-eagles-begin-training-tomorrow/

President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC certainly knew how to tell Nigerians what they wanted to hear.
http://nigerianpilot.com/apc-buhari-and-the-ghost-of-unfulfilled-promises/

Late Bobbi Kristina’s aunt, Pat Houston, says Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s daughter was preparing for rehab in the days before her near-drowning in late January.
http://nigerianpilot.com/aunt-gives-insight-into-bobbi-kristinas-death/

Recently released 24th Bond movie “Spectre”, has broken several box office records.
http://nigerianpilot.com/spectre-breaks-box-office-records-grosses-80-4m-in-1st-week-of-release/

Even as the impasse between Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and Dream team Head coach Samson Siasia lingers, the National Sports Commission, NSC, has assured that no stone would be left unturned in making sure that existing row was resolved.
http://nigerianpilot.com/nsc-orders-payment-of-siasias-salaries-amidst-row-with-nff/

Nigeria defeated Mexico 4-2 to reach the final of the 2015 Fifa U17 World Cup final.
http://nigerianpilot.com/nigeria-4-2-mexico/

EMMA ALOZIE looks at how the internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC in Bayelsa State is seriously damaging its chances of unseating the PDP.
http://nigerianpilot.com/apcs-self-implosion-and-bayelsas-december-5-guber-poll/

EMMA ALOZIE looks at how the internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC in Bayelsa State is seriously damaging its chances of unseating the PDP.
http://nigerianpilot.com/apcs-self-implosion-and-bayelsas-december-5-guber-poll/

Arturo Vidal has issued a warning to Arsenal as Bayern Munich prepare to host them in the Champions today.
http://nigerianpilot.com/bayern-plot-arsenal-fall-in-germany/

Lionel Messi is looking increasingly unlikely to be fit enough to face Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the 2015-16 La Liga campaign.
http://nigerianpilot.com/el-clasico-messi-in-doubt/

A second successive away win, secured by Ideye Brown’s late goal at GNK Dinamo Zagreb, has put Olympiacos FC firmly in the frame for one of the qualifying places in Group F.
http://nigerianpilot.com/ucl-ideye-set-to-nail-dinamo-zegreb-again/

Former CAF and FIFA technical advisor, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde and ex-Nigerian international, Etim Esin are backing Golden Eaglets star striker, Victor Osimhen to smash the all-time scoring record of nine goals in the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
http://nigerianpilot.com/onigbinde-esin-back-osimhen-to-smash-all-time-world-cup-record/

Chelsea striker Diego Costa is waiting to discover if he will be retrospectively punished by the Football Association for an alleged kick on Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel.
http://nigerianpilot.com/chelseas-diego-costa-could-face-4-match-ban/

The controversies surrounding the screening of the ministerial nominees might have come and gone; but it opened another vista in the fight of Senator Saraki to retain his plum job as the Senate President. While he saw the screening exercise as an opportunity to mend fences with the hierarchy of his party who are not pleased with his emergence as the Senate President, he might have succeeded in estranging his huge support base, the opposition PDP.
http://nigerianpilot.com/saraki-how-amaechis-screening-may-have-sealed-his-fate/

Genevieve Nnaji’s debut movie, ‘Road to Yesterday’, was last Wednesday, October 27 shown to a selected group of movie critics, entertainment personalities and showbiz journalists.
http://nigerianpilot.com/road-to-yesterday-screened-to-select-audience-in-lagos/

World Bank has again rated Nigeria among countries that are poor on the ease of doing business ranking adding that other African countries including the neighboring Benin Republic fared much better in how easy it is to start a business in their countries.
http://nigerianpilot.com/wb-rates-nigerian-business-climate-poor/

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu is expected to resume office next week after his clearance by the Senate. Assistant editor, Mike Odiakose, writes that as he assumes office, it is not going to be a tea party as Nigerians expect him to fix several loose ends and half-done jobs left behind by the former INEC chairman.
http://nigerianpilot.com/nec-an-agenda-for-prof-yakubu/

An Abuja based journalist with the SubNews Magazine, Tony Christian has petitioned the Inspector General of Police over an alleged use of the police to harass and intimidate him by the managing director of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority, NEPZA, over the magazine’s investigation into an alleged involvement of the MD in a N500million contract scam. - See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/journalist-petitions-igp-over-alleged-intimidation-by-nepza-md/#sthash.mZfFCN72.dpuf

Despite growing concern over sudden retirement of two Super Eagles players, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has insisted that it would not consider pleading with the latest retiree Emmanuel Emenike to make a comeback into the national team
http://nigerianpilot.com/we-wont-beg-emenike-to-return-nff/

Following this ugly trend, which has been the hallmark of the nation’s revenue base for months, Permanent Secretary, Federal ministry of finance, Mrs. Anastasia Nwaobia told reports yesterday in Abuja that the federal government is worried about the dwindling revenue of the country and is working tirelessly to reverse it for good.
http://nigerianpilot.com/falling-revenue-poses-threat-to-economy/

Chief Segun Odegbami has attributed his inability to get the required five nominations needed to endorse him as a candidate vying for the FIFA top post to sabotage.
http://nigerianpilot.com/fifa-presidency-odegbami-cries-sabotage/

As Professor Mahmood Yakubu awaits to be screened and confirmed by the Senate as the substantive chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, there are numerous challenges ahead of him. In this piece, DOZIE EMMANUEL looks at those challenges - See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/tasks-before-the-new-inec-chairman/#sthash.vZmR3m8r.dpuf

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As Muslims all over the world celebrate the new Islamic year, Hijrah 1437, an Islamic Cleric, Professor Lakin Akintola has said that insurgents around the world are criminals and should be treated as such. - See more at:

http://nigerianpilot.com/islamic-new-year-insurgents-should-be-treated-as-criminals-cleric/#sthash.XWWAzzWM.dpuf