Investigations Top Story

Remi Tinubu Foreign Trips Gulp N700m In 12 Months

By The Insight Team August 25, 2026 50 0

By The Insight Team Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, incurred at least N700.71 million in recorded expenditure on five foreign trips between March 2023 and September 2024, an analysis of government payment records has shown. The payments covered trips to the United States, Mozambique, France, the United Kingdom and Ethiopia, with foreign exchange Continue Reading

Uncategorized

How Amani Abuja Is Bridging Nigeria’s Housing Deficit

By The Insight Team August 22, 2026 65 0

The developers of Amani Abuja have unveiled a 50-hectare residential community in Kabusa, Abuja, as part of efforts by private-sector investors to bridge Nigeria’s growing housing deficit and respond to increasing demand for quality homes in the Federal Capital Territory. The project, developed through a partnership involving Kopitar, OMEC Properties and Gynosure Continue Reading

Opinions

The Biggest Risk to Institutions Isn’t Bad Leadership, It’s Leadership That Fails to Develop Others

By The Insight Team August 19, 2026 83 0

By Izuoma Ogwuma, Human Resource expert and HR team lead  at the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation   For six years, the regional programme office ran like clockwork under one manager. She caught problems before they became reports. She knew which vendor would deliver and which one to avoid, which state contact returned calls and which one needed […]Continue Reading

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Staff Threaten Strike Over Alleged Illegal Contract Appointments at NEPC

By The Insight Team July 29, 2026 481 0

Staff of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) have threatened to embark on industrial action over what they described as the planned illegal re-engagement of four retired and retiring officers on contract appointments, alleging that the move violates the Public Service Rules (PSR) and undermines due process. The development marks the latest controversy to engulf Continue Reading

Economy Opinions

The Ownership Deficit: Africa’s Real Talent Problem Is Not Talent

By The Insight Team July 20, 2026 205 0

By Great Ukazim, Founder, Beingsphere We were moving offices a few years ago, and in the middle of the chaos, a colleague pointed at a good, sturdy table and said we should leave it behind. Buying a new one would be cheaper than moving this one, he said. But something made me ask him: if […]Continue Reading

Economy

Healthy Diet: N70,000 Minimum Wage Runs Dry After 12 Days – Report

By The Insight Team July 16, 2026 199 0

By The Insight Team Workers earning Nigeria’s N70,000 national minimum wage can afford only about 12 days of healthy feeding if they live in Ekiti, Imo or Bayelsa, where the cost of nutritious meals is highest, an analysis of the latest National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) report has shown. […]Continue Reading

Economy Investigations

Ministry Of Information To Spend Over ₦9bn Outside Statutory Mandate

By The Insight Team July 6, 2026 256

By The Insight Team The Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation has earmarked ₦9.49 billion in its 2026 budget for road construction, health centres, boreholes, food distribution, empowerment programmes, classrooms, transformers and other constituency-style projects that appear unrelated to its statutory mandate of public information management, Continue Reading

Economy Opinions

Nigeria’s Public Institutions Need Young Talent — Young Talent Is Not Interested

By The Insight Team June 30, 2026 185

By Chioma Bright-Uhara, Deputy Director of Communications, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation   I did not grow up planning to care about public service. My parents were public servants, and while I watched them show up for their careers with dedication, that path simply did not feel like mine. When I was thinking about my future, other options […]Continue Reading

Terrorism Monitor Top Story

‎Borno, Katsina, Zamfara Lead as Violence Claims 15,000 Lives in One Year – Report

By The Insight Team June 26, 2026 284

By The Insight Team ‎ ‎Violence across Nigeria claimed 15000 lives in the 12 months between July 2025 and June 2026, with Borno, Katsina and Zamfara emerging as the country’s deadliest conflict hotspots. This is according to data by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), a global conflict data repository. ‎ ‎The data, […]Continue Reading

Economy Opinions

Beyond Training: Building Systems That Let Africa’s Public Servants Deliver

By The Insight Team June 22, 2026 180

By Chioma Njoku, Director of Programmes, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation   Africa does not have a talent problem. Walk into any ministry, any government agency, any public institution in Nigeria, and I dare say, across the continent, and you will find people who are capable, committed and aware of what needs to change. What you will also […]Continue Reading

Economy

Half the Month Hungry: Minimum Wage Fails Food Needs

By The Insight Team June 11, 2026 198

The Insight Team Nigeria’s new minimum wage may have offered temporary relief to workers, but fresh data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) suggests that it falls far short of guaranteeing something more fundamental — access to a healthy diet. The NBS’s latest Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) report shows that the average […]Continue Reading

News

Better Buildings Can Create Safer Communities – CORBON

By The Insight Team June 10, 2026 483

The Chairman of the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON), Samson Ameh Opaluwah, has said that adopting better building practices and sustainable construction methods is critical to creating safer, more resilient communities across Nigeria. Speaking at the 3rd Environmental Design Conference (EDCON) on Tuesday, organised by the Faculty of Environmental Design Continue Reading