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Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

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The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company.

Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four years, left the role this week, according to a press release. Pivotal said Karklin is “pursuing new endeavors” but didn’t offer any other information about the executive’s departure from the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) firm.

“Leading Pivotal has been the privilege of my career. Together, we’ve moved beyond the promise of light eVTOL and proved it out in practice,” Karklin said in a statement. “This industry has moved past prototypes and press releases; it’s now operating in the real world, under real constraints, with real consequences for the future of Advanced Air Mobility. As I turn to new endeavors, I do so knowing the foundation we built here will help carry this industry forward.”

Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal’s board of directors in November 2025. Karklin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Karklin’s departure comes two years after Pivotal started sales of Helix, its first lightweight electric personal aircraft. The single-seat aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly and starts at around $200,000.

“Ken’s leadership over the past four years has been instrumental in bringing Pivotal to where it is today. Our team, our priorities, and our roadmap remain steady through this transition,” Ross said in a statement. “I’ve had the honor of working closely with Ken as a Board member and watching Pivotal’s disciplined approach to safety, engineering, and accessibility deliver on the vision of electric VTOL flight. I look forward to working with the team and guiding the company forward as we bring our fourth-generation Helix aircraft to market.”

Pivotal has also spent years developing an aircraft called BlackFly that is aimed at defense and first-responder use cases. Last month, BlackFly was used to respond to an emergency in North Carolina for the first time ever. The company says it beat an ambulance responding in parallel to the call by 20 minutes. BlackFly has flown more than 10,000 times, according to Pivotal.

Pivotal is one of a number of companies in the space that was selected for the Federal Aviation Administration’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, which was created to increase testing of these types of aircraft around the country.

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2027: Igbo can produce Nigeria’s President only through dignity – Sam Amadi

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The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Sam Amadi, has hinted on the “only” path the Igbo race can produce Nigeria’s President.

Amadi disclosed that the only pathway for the Igbo nation to produce Nigeria’s President is through dignity.

Posting on X, Amdi wrote: “I have said it before, the only pathway to Igbo presidency in Nigeria is a path called ‘dignity’. Eji ndu eme gini (what is the value of life), talk less of Nigerian presidency, outside dignity.”

During the 2019 and 2023 elections, there were clamours for the South-East to produce Nigeria’s President.

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Former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi was the presidential running mate to then Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, in 2019 but the party lost.

In 2023, Obi decamped to the Labour Party, LP, in his push to become Nigeria’s President but he came third behind Atiku and eventual winner and candidate of the All Progressives Party, APC.

Meanwhile, Obi will again contest the 2027 presidential election under the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.

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2027: Abuja is for Peter Obi – Isaac Fayose dares FCT Minister, Wike

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Social commentator and businessman, Isaac Fayose, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, would comfortably win the 2027 presidential election in Abuja.

Fayose made the claim on Tuesday while appearing on News Central TV, amid a recent statement by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that the opposition lacks popularity in the nation’s capital.

Wike had, during an interview, described the 2027 election as an easy contest, insisting that President Bola Tinubu would win both Rivers State and the FCT.

However, Fayose disagreed with the minister, asserting that “Abuja is NDC, Abuja is Peter Obi.”

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Fayose stressed that there was nothing else the ruling party could do other than “write results”, but said they had plans to prevent any alleged attempt to rig the election.

According to him, the NDC has put strategies in place to ensure that the election is not manipulated by anyone.

“People are ready to vote. All we are scared of now is what angle are they going to suppress us from this time? This is the only area we are trying to fine-tune.

“Go to the street and try to talk to one or two people. Ask them, ‘Who are you going to vote for?’

“Abroad, before the proper election, they seek people’s opinions on who they want to vote for through mock elections. We don’t do that in Nigeria, but we need to start doing it,” he said.

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