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Training Opportunity at Wits University on Media Freedom

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 970 0

The University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg has called for application for a free online journalism training.. The course would take place for a period of seven weeks and it would be titled “Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Africa”. The course is a free-of-charge MOOC (massive open online course) and it aims to […]Continue Reading

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“Majek Fashek: Still Raining, Gloriously” by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By The Insight Team June 2, 2020 834 0

In 1988, Majek Fashek released the album, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, which contained the hit song, Send Down the Rain. It was a very big hit, in what would be a very rainy year in  Nigeria! The radical lyrics were very much in tune with that period in history. The struggle against apartheid was reaching it’s […]Continue Reading

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Zenith bank emerges best bank in Nigeria in the global finance world’s best banks awards 2020

By The Insight Team June 1, 2020 829 0

Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the recently released Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks Awards 2020.   The awards, which was published in the May 2020 edition of the Global Finance Magazine, was based on the performances of the banks in their respective regions […]Continue Reading

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HIV/AIDS Self-testing kit now available in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 21, 2020 1433 0

By Emmanuel Kwada National AIDS and STDs Control Programme (NASCP) have launched a self-testing HIV/AIDS kit called “OraQuick”. The NASCP was instituted to complement efforts by the ministry of health towards the fight against HIV and AIDS.    Organiser of NASCP, Dr. Godwin Emmanuel, in a statement on Tuesday, November 19, gave a report on […]Continue Reading

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Zenith General Insurance’s profit before tax rises by 16% to N3.67bn

By The Insight Team May 18, 2020 784 0

Zenith General Insurance Limited has released its full-year financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019. A review of the results showed positive improvements on a year-on-year basis with profit before tax rising by 16% from N3.16bn to N3.67bn while profit after tax rose by 10% up from N2.79bn to N3.06bn. The company also […]Continue Reading

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Cameroon govt to help Archbishop who developed cure for COVID-19

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 743 0

By ChiefBisong Etahoben Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health has dispatched a team of government pharmacists to Douala, the country’s economic capital, to meet with the Archbishop of Douala, His Grace Samuel Kleda and discuss on how best government can assist in advancing the production of his Covid-19 herbal cure which he calls “Essential Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 869 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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The mid-term JEE 2019 in Nigeria: a need to boost epidemic preparedness further

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 753 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong In the third week of November 2019, experts in health security from 29 Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies gathered. Their task was to use a 49-indicator tool of the World Health Organisation to access Nigeria’s capacity to detect, prevent or respond to a disease outbreak—in effect, whether the country was prepared […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 13675 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By The Insight Team May 8, 2020 788 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari, on April 27, 2020 ordered the ease of lockdown in three major high-infection states in the country. The three states, Lagos, FCT, and Ogun, had been on lockdown since March 30. This decision was as a result of the impact the lockdown had on the economy. In his […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: “The media is on the frontlines”, by Eugenia Abu 

By The Insight Team April 25, 2020 791 0

For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The […]Continue Reading

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Melinda Gates said she feared coronavirus in Africa would lead to dead being put out in street, as in Ecuador

By The Insight Team April 24, 2020 1160 0

Disclosure: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of Africa Check’s funders, providing 11% of our income in 2019. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of US billionaire Bill Gates, has said the coronavirus pandemic “will make Africa have dead bodies lying on the streets”. Continue Reading