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[Lesson from Abroad] Is Nigeria on path to Somalia?

By The Insight Team February 25, 2020 844

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet Somalia: There Is No Government Here, By Muno Gedi (A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective (AIPC)) “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows into Somalia from Ethiopia, through the regional capital Beledweyne further into the Hiran region, down to Buluboorde and beyond. Many farmers tend […]Continue Reading

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Uproar as FG plans to handover $100m Abacha loot to Bagudu

By The Insight Team February 24, 2020 821

There was a general feeling of indignation across the country yesterday over a report of alleged attempts by the federal government to hand over about $100 million United States authorities say was stolen by a former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Bagudu, a top member of the ruling All […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank Posts N200billion Profit

By The Insight Team February 21, 2020 658

In a clear show of its resilience and market leadership, Zenith Bank has announced an impressive result for the year ended December 31, 2019, with profit after tax (PAT) of N208.8 billion, achieving the feat as the first Nigerian Bank to cross the N200 billion mark. According to the bank’s audited financial results for the […]Continue Reading

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[INSIGHT]: Is NSA’s role in The Presidency ambiguous?

By The Insight Team February 20, 2020 845

By Theophilus Abbah Nigerians were embarrassed this week to learn that President Muhammadu Buhari’s kitchen cabinet was in disarray over who-does-what in the difficult battle against the hydra-headed insecurity in the country. In a nutshell, a leaked memo divulged the frustration that President Buhari’s National Security Adviser, General Mohammed Babagana Monguno, has Continue Reading

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World Bank Approves Nigeria’s Identity Project

By The Insight Team February 19, 2020 660

The World Bank on Wednesday (February 18, 2020) in Washington DC, the United States, approved Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem project along with five others, aimed at assisting the country to empower citizens, especially marginalized groups, to access welfare-enhancing services. The National Digital Identity Ecosystem Project is focused on enhancing the national Continue Reading

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Zulum spends two days in Monguno, starts 1000 homes for IDPs, higher school

By The Insight Team February 5, 2020 880

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has spent two days in Monguno town around the tough shores of the Lake Chad in northern Borno, during which he laid the foundation for construction of 1,000 houses. The houses on completion, will resettle  internally displaced persons currently occupying schools. During the visit, governor Zulum also laid the […]Continue Reading

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Inside Nigeria’s Failed Vision 2020

By The Insight Team January 3, 2020 1253 Post a comment

Ten years may sound like a blurry, distant future. But built into them are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that provide harbor for infinitesimal opportunities that transform the lives of men and the fortunes of nations. Men and nations who benefit from time are those who employ their imagination in crafting long-term visions […]Continue Reading

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Afrophobia: The lies, data and undercurrent

By The Insight Team September 12, 2019 1124

Outrage spread with fire and blood across Africa as the demon of xenophobia took control of the mind and conscience of hundreds of South African youths. Thirsty for blood and destruction, they struck their African brothers to death, looted the fruits of their victims’ labour, burned down the remnant of their hard work, and cursed […]Continue Reading

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Clinics with nothing : How millions meant for the sick are never spent

By The Insight Team August 10, 2019 1022

Healthcare in Nigeria is incredibly complicated. Large budgets are trapped on different government levels, only accessible to those who know how to work the system. The Primary Healthcare Centre in Ugbamaka-Igah village in Kogi State, Nigeria, is overgrown with grasses. The labour and patient wards as well as the other rooms of the clinic are […]Continue Reading

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5 Questions for Army over killing of police operatives

By The Insight Team August 9, 2019 1183

The word ‘waste’ erupts in the mind as one imagines the unnecessary killing of three elite police officers in Taraba State this week. As an evidence of the lack of cooperation among security agencies fighting terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery and communal violence, army personnel were those involved in the senseless shooting. In the last one […]Continue Reading

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Sowore, DSS and language of ‘revolution’

By The Insight Team August 5, 2019 829

At the centre of Department of State Security (DSS’) arrest of Mr. Omowole Sowore at the weekend over the protest #RevolutionNow is the meaning of the noun ‘Revolution.’ Erudite spokesman of DSS, Peter Afunanya, justified the security agency’s ‘preventive measure’ by not just defining ‘revolution,’ but provided extended meaning of the word to include: “… […]Continue Reading

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Their African way: The business associates who help the kleptocrats (Transnational Investigation)

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 892

By African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM team: David Dembélé (Mali), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Charles Mafa and John Mukela (Zambia), T. Kaiwonda Gaye* (Liberia), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), Purity Mukami with Africa Uncensored, Kenya “You must be very careful,” says the lawyer over the phone to the local reporter. “This is a dark and sensitive dossier. Continue Reading