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Kukah Raises Queries on Christianity and Politics

By The Insight Team October 27, 2018 1168

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet The Trying Triangle of Politics, Economy and Faith: Through the Eyes of the Needle By Matthew Hassan Kukah 1. Preamble In your letter of invitation to me, you requested that I speak on what you called, The Trying Triangle of Politics, Economy and Faith: Through the Eyes of the Needle. In more plain language, this […]Continue Reading

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Top 10 promises made by Atiku

By The Insight Team October 7, 2018 1066

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made many promises to Nigerians during his campaign for this ticket. Today, he got the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the 2019 presidential election. Below are 10 of those promises. 1. To End Boko Haram He made this promise while on a campaign visit to Maiduguri, […]Continue Reading

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Kogi East Senate: Victor Adoji may dump PDP

By The Insight Team October 6, 2018 787

A frontline contender for Kogi East Senatorial District seat, Dr Victor Adoji, is likely to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for another platform. This is due to anti-democratic activities that coloured the primary elections. Dr Adoji met with top leaders of Kogi politics yesterday in order to perfect the next plan of action after […]Continue Reading

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7 Perspectives to CBN/MTN Tango

By The Insight Team September 30, 2018 921

In 2016, the Senate Committee on Banks, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions probed how MTN, between 2006 and 2016, allegedly repatriated about $13.9billion from Nigeria after side-stepping the due process for issuing Certificates of Capital Importation (CCIs) within 24 hours of conversion. On August 29 this year, the CBN came out with the report of […]Continue Reading

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51 pastors kidnapped in 2 years

By The Insight Team September 26, 2018 1020

Kidnappers demand N1 billion ransom Edo, Delta and Kaduna top list of most dangerous states for pastors In the last two years not less than 51 pastors and priests of various denominations and churches were  kidnapped in Nigeria. Also, ransom figures put at about N1 billion was demanded from them and their loved ones. This […]Continue Reading

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Tema Refinery: City of Pipes, Tanks and Towers

By The Insight Team September 1, 2018 1021

  With youthful anxiety for the Friday excursion to Accra’s Tema Oil Refinery, I struggled out of sleep at a very odd hour. I woke up at the dark and unholy hour of 2.00am when human beings were at rest but the spirit world active with unrest. Strangely, I felt struck with an inexplicable nausea […]Continue Reading

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But the “President” is mentioned 22 times in the Petroleum Bill

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1162

The return of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill 2018, harmonized by the Senate and House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday coincided with a session on extractive sector (mining, oil and gas) legal framework that we were taken through in Accra, Ghana on the same day. Organised by the […]Continue Reading

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Shocking things Ghana’s Auditor-General said about oil and gas

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1048

In the last decade I’ve been haunted by an opaque expression: ‘the oil and gas sector is opaque.’ What is opaque? What is oil and gas? The simple definition of opaque is “not transparent,” and it has synonyms like “cloudy,” “blurred,” “dirty,” “muddy,” “hazy,” etc. Is the word, opaque, not a synonym of the phrase […]Continue Reading

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5 Revelations from Leah Sharibu’s Audio Tape

By The Insight Team August 27, 2018 1005

A socio-pragmatic linguistic analysis of the transcript of the audio of Leah Sharibu proves five things. The transcript, widely circulated in the media, read thus: “I am Leah Sharibu, the girl that was abducted in GGSS Dapchi. I am calling on the government and people of goodwill to intervene to get me out of my […]Continue Reading

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Thank you all; Thank you Lord

By The Insight Team August 27, 2018 796 Post a comment

As the castle of Journalism where I had been secure for two decades crashed earlier this year into bricks and rubble, exposing my life to whirlwind, tornado and tsunami, my inner eyes did not foresee another sunrise, not a sunrise on Sunday, August 26, 2018, my birthday. I could not imagine a sunrise in a […]Continue Reading

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2019: APC Alerts Nigerians on Arms Seizure Over Elections

By The Insight Team August 26, 2018 1044

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over arms build up in the country following the interception of Nigeria-bound arms in South Africa. A statement today by its spokesman, Mr Yekini Nabena, said the arms seizure was a red flag for security agencies to be very vigilant as the country approaches the next […]Continue Reading

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10 national issues being lost to 2019 power noise

By The Insight Team August 25, 2018 1086

The next general election is six months away. Not, government seems to have surrendered its duties to the noise of the power riddle, abandoning many issues of national importance. Below is a list of some of such issues that federal and state governments have relegated to the background in their anxiety to secure ‘the people’s […]Continue Reading