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Covid-19: How to be security conscious

By The Insight Team June 10, 2020 951 0

The year, 2020, has come with unexpected hardship in Nigeria. As a result of Covid-19, many businesses have been shut down, many workers have lost their jobs, even artisans are finding it difficult to put  meals on their table. Government’s palliatives are on the pages of newspapers or in the air waves.  No adequate provision […]Continue Reading

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My Covid-19 experience, by a journalist

By The Insight Team June 4, 2020 1044 0

A journalist, Kabir Anwar, is the index case of Covid-19 in Yola, Adamawa State, where he works. In this short interview, Anwar tells his story from how he was infected to when he tested negative.   What ailment were you treating before you tested positive to Covid-19? Cough, fever, body weakness, I also had shortness […]Continue Reading

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Why did COVID-19 hit Kano State below the belt?

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 906 0

Kano budgeted N1,805.88 per head in 2020 health projection When Kano state recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 10, 2020, many people knew that there were going to be issues in respect to the level of preparedness of the state government to adequately manage the emerging cases of the virus. The irony, […]Continue Reading

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HIV/AIDS Self-testing kit now available in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 21, 2020 1458 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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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 883 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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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By The Insight Team May 8, 2020 793 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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COVID-19: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?” by Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR

By The Insight Team April 24, 2020 995 0

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 Today

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 906 0

Here is an update on Covid-19 in Nigeria     Latest Report InfogramContinue Reading

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10 Takeaway from Buhari’s second speech on Covid-19

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 1048 0

 92% of all identified contacts with Covid-19 positive persons has been identified. Testing capacity doubled – 1,500 tests could be conducted daily 7,000 health care workers trained in ‘infection prevention and control’ Health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment NCDC team deployed Continue Reading

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[Intelligence] Covid-19 Expenditure and 2020 Health Budget

By The Insight Team April 11, 2020 975 0

Nigeria’s federal and state governments have been on a spending spree to frustrate the spread of coronavirus. Imperative as the spending is, it has raised concerns about the fate of the 2020 health budget. With several health challenges like poor primary healthcare delivery, high maternal mortality rate, poor immunization of children, deaths due to typhoid […]Continue Reading

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The present and the past flu by Eric Teniola

By The Insight Team April 10, 2020 805 0

The Coronavirus is a negative scientific invention. Until proved otherwise, the virus called SARS-COV-2 was made by scientists and escaped in a laboratory. It is a laboratory construct and a manipulated virus. It is not the product of natural evolution. The sudden and forceful spread of the virus, especially from China to Europe and then […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 6: Fuel price jerked up as more than 500 Africans die

By The Insight Team April 8, 2020 906 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah As I started my car engine this evening to ride out of boredom into the locked down world, I noticed that my fuel had drained. The red sign on the gauge jeered at him as if to say it would certainly draw some cash from my drained pocket. Even if I had […]Continue Reading