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Port Harcourt: 600 Bishops, other clergies witness as Anglican church awards Zulum for “courage and purposeful leadership”

By The Insight Team February 24, 2022 1133 Post a comment

At least six hundred clergies, amongst them 20 Archbishops, 144 Bishops, and hundreds of reverends converged in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where the church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) honored Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, with a “prestigious award for courageous and purposeful leadership in challenging times”. Nigeria’s Continue Reading

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Maiduguri: Osinbajo opens Zulum’s 78 doctors’ apartments, 78 shops, school, and road

By The Insight Team February 24, 2022 1097 0

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo was in Maiduguri on Thursday, to launch the 30th edition of the Federal Government’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic during which he commissioned four out of over 500 projects executed by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. The Vice President arrived in Maiduguri around 11 am […]Continue Reading

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Ernest Shonekan As a Footnote

By The Insight Team February 23, 2022 940 0

By Eric Teniola I guess that history will be very kind to Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, GCFR, (May 9, 1936-11 January 2022), why? Because his tenure was the shortest, just eighty-two days. While his colleagues have been brutally treated by history either for action or misaction, I am sure history will treat Chief Shonekan […]Continue Reading

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The Unseen Forces Behind Terrorist Fighters

By The Insight Team February 16, 2022 870 0

By Theophilus Abbah On February 4, 2022, no fewer than 25 terrorists, fleeing airstrikes by the Nigerian military,  drowned in a deep river located within the Marte axis of the Lake Chad basin in Borno State. On February 10, 2022, a  military fighter jet and helicopter gunship eliminated some bandit leaders and terrorists in Niger State. On […]Continue Reading

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Two days in Gamboru: Zulum, Shettima share food, cash to 60,803 returnees

By The Insight Team February 15, 2022 894 0

… Zulum tells doctors Borno will match NGO pay Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima was in the border town of Gamboru in Ngala Local Government Area, undertaking humanitarian responses, from Sunday to Tuesday. The leaders supervised and also got directly involved in the distribution of food and non-food items […]Continue Reading

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A Guarantee of Peace and Stability

By The Insight Team February 4, 2022 920 0

In October last year the Defence Development Exhibition, Self-Defence 2021, was held in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It clearly showed that the DPRK heads the list of world-class military powers. The forces hostile towards the country are very vocal in their claim that the DPRK’s defence buildup poses a […]Continue Reading

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Ideal and Perfect Political Identity

By The Insight Team February 4, 2022 889 0

The collapse of socialism, a great political earthquake, which started in the late 1980s ended with the red flag pulling down at Kremlin, Moscow, in December 1991. The continuous collapse of socialism in the USSR and other eastern European countries made people expect the “end of socialism” in the whole world, reminding them of the […]Continue Reading

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Mass transit: Zulum launches 610 taxis, tricycles, buses in Maiduguri

By The Insight Team February 3, 2022 900 0

… Gives N50m to 1,000 operators … Targets 3,200 beneficiaries Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched 610 taxis, tricycles, and buses to enhance urban mass transportation in Maiduguri and parts of Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas which fall under the metropolis. Zulum arrived in Maiduguri after his presidential press briefing in Continue Reading

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Zulum flags-off N11.5 billion works for 10 major roads, bridges

By The Insight Team January 27, 2022 921 0

Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, flagged off N11.5 billion worth of construction works for eight major roads and two bridges cited in key parts of Maiduguri, the state capital. A Chinese construction company, Eighteenth Engineering Company (EEC), and a Borno-based construction company, Obtuse Tech Engineering Company Limited, both of which Continue Reading

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Dangote Refinery to Reduce Africa’s Petroleum Importation by 36%, says APPO

By The Insight Team January 23, 2022 1039 0

African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO) has said that the establishment of the Dangote Oil Refinery will bring about a 36 percent reduction in the importation of petroleum productions into the continent. Besides, the organization expressed a belief that the success of the Dangote Refinery project could incentivize the rise of similar projects across Africa despite Continue Reading

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Dismantle Trade Barriers to grow Africa’s economy, Dangote urges Leaders

By The Insight Team November 20, 2021 1001 0

African leaders have been urged to dismantle trade barriers stifling their countries, in a bid to ensure smooth flow of goods and services, with a corresponding impact on economic growth and development across the continent. The call was made by the Group Chief Commercial Officer of Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Rabiu Umar, during an interview […]Continue Reading

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‘What IMF says about eNaira’

By The Insight Team November 16, 2021 955 0

By Jack Ree, IMF African Department The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officially launched the “ eNaira”—a central bank digital currency (CBDC)—on October 25, 2021. This is the second CBDC fully open to the public after the Bahamas. Other countries and regions, such as China and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, have been conducting CBDC […]Continue Reading