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Bag of Goodies Promo: past star prize winners eagerly await season 2 kick-off

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 750 0

…Commend Dangote for transforming their lives Previous winners of star prizes in the Bag of Goodies national consumer promo Season 1 done by Dangote Cement Plc in 2019 have expressed huge excitement over the approaching Season 2 version, which is billed to take off nationwide in July. The star winners, among the 40 lucky individuals […]Continue Reading

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For Soyinka at 86, and a scoop denied    

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 855 0

By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By The Insight Team July 7, 2020 781 0

The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading

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10 Issues in Buhari’s Democracy Day Broadcast

By The Insight Team June 12, 2020 747 0

Macroeconomy has stabilized, as economic decline is ‘relatively moderate’ External Reserves stands at $36 billion, enough to fund import for seven months Some 1,200 Housing Units delivered Ajaokuta Steel Company will be resuscitated Siemens agreement will see to the rehabilitation of transmission lines, and by 2023, electricity infrastructure shall transmit Continue Reading

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Former US AfDB Director declares support for Adesina

By The Insight Team June 8, 2020 841 0

A former U.S Executive Director to the African Development Bank, (AfDB), Dr. Mima Nedelcovych, has expressed support to the embattled President Akinwumi Adesina. Dr. Nedelcovych said that Dr Adesina has stepped up when most needed for an African institution to lead the way in the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. On the issue of the […]Continue Reading

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My Covid-19 experience, by a journalist

By The Insight Team June 4, 2020 1019 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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Katsina peace deal with bandits collapses

By The Insight Team June 4, 2020 1132 0

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari said on Wednesday that the peace accord his administration signed with bandits troubling the state had collapsed. Masari had, on August 28, 2019, engaged representatives of bandits terrorising the eight frontline local government areas in the state. He said his visit was aimed at calling the attention of suspected […]Continue Reading

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AfDB President, Adesina addresses corruption allegations

By The Insight Team May 28, 2020 845 0

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has come under pressure to address to the corruption allegations levelled against him. Below are his responses: Allegation No. 1 Not provided Allegation No. 2: Appointment of Mrs Chinelo ANOHU-AMAZU ADESINA: Ms Chinelo Anohu-AMAZU was recruited through a globally advertised, open and competitive Continue Reading

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Ugandan security personnel enforcing COVID-19 measures assault journalists

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 913 0

The Committee to Protect Journalists have called on Ugandan authorities to investigate security forces’ recent attacks against journalists and hold those responsible to account. Since March 19, security forces have harassed or assaulted at least six journalists in the country while enforcing restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to the journalists, Continue Reading

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

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 1026 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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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 991 0

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 in Nigeria: Cislac Demands Total Accountability of Donated Funds (Press Release)

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 1041 0

While the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/ Transparency International in Nigeria commends and appreciates the ongoing donations by indigenous groups towards the combating the COVID-2019 virus pandemic and its socio-economic impacts, we at the same time, call for total accountability of the utilisation and distribution of funds. As we welcome the recent Continue Reading