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Revelations from co-authoring Brigadier Musa Usman’s biography

By The Insight Team 306 0
Theophilus Abbah (co-author) Every time Hajiya Ramatu Ohioma Ali (now late) spoke or called me, her voice carried a brutal force of authority I could not resist. So, it was in 2020, when her name flashed on my sleek Samsung handset. In an undisguised commanding tone, she declared: “You’re part of a project to write […]Continue Reading
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‘Why the family commissioned book on Brigadier Musa Usman’

By The Insight Team 176 0
 An address by Hassan Musa Usman, FCA, at the launch of the book: Brigadier Musa Usman (1940-1991): Service & Impact, on   Monday, 14th September 2026 at the NAF Conference Center and Suites, Kado, Abuja Bismillahi Rahmanir Rahim. Your Excellencies, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished guests — all protocols duly observed. We give thanks to Continue Reading
Investigations Terrorism Monitor

‘I’ve Negotiated the Release of 40 Victims from Terrorist Enclaves’

By The Insight Team 212 0
By Emmanuel Kwada For more than a decade, insecurity has left deep scars across communities in northern Adamawa State. Families have been displaced, livelihoods destroyed and lives lost to attacks, kidnappings and years of fear. But behind some of the stories of survival is a man whose work has largely remained unknown. His name is […]Continue Reading
Investigations Terrorism Monitor

Adakole Daniel: An Accountant-turned-Peace Mediator in Benue State

By The Insight Team 477 0
By Sharon Emmanuel Adakole Inalegwu Daniel, a young Accounting graduate, could have chosen the safety of staying away from trouble-ridden communities affected by armed attacks in Benue State. Instead, he has spent years risking his life to promote peace among rural dwellers. Daniel has also invested his personal resources and livelihood in efforts to prevent […]Continue Reading
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Now, Nigerian journalists are trapped in ‘theatre of terror’

By The Insight Team 435 2
A disturbing news judgment I made in January 2012 when I occupied the magisterial seat as Editor of Sunday Trust makes me feel like a guilty old man when dry bone is mentioned in a proverb. In this case, I feel unease when security personnel and government officials throw missiles at the media for allegedly […]Continue Reading
Economy Investigations

Ministry Of Information To Spend Over ₦9bn Outside Statutory Mandate

By The Insight Team 402
By The Insight Team The Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation has earmarked ₦9.49 billion in its 2026 budget for road construction, health centres, boreholes, food distribution, empowerment programmes, classrooms, transformers and other constituency-style projects that appear unrelated to its statutory mandate of public information management, Continue Reading
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Lighting the Forgotten: How Solar Power Can Revive Michika, Madagali After a Decade of Darkness

By The Insight Team 443
By Emmanuel Kwada “It hit me hard when my wife went into labor and we rushed her to the General Hospital in Madagali. We spent the night in total darkness. Mosquitoes feasted on us, and our newborn baby was delivered under torchlight. Patients on admission were sweating inside mosquito nets because there was no electricity […]Continue Reading
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Yes, to state police; but let’s first stop them from doing just one thing

By The Insight Team 423
June 2022 stands out in my life like a dark stain on a spotless white garment. It remains etched in my memory alongside other defining dates — my birthday, my wedding day, the day I wrote my final undergraduate exam, and, most painfully, the day death stole my father away. That month, my family endured […]Continue Reading
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2027 Elections: My fears for Professor Amupitan

By The Insight Team 446
The eyes of my centenarian father-in-law always sparked with excitement, his heart warm with happiness every time I travelled from Abuja to our village and walked into his serene premises. Not because I took a lorryload of material gifts or showered him with Naira notes.  Rather, it was because each visit enabled him to give […]Continue Reading
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EU Grants: How new machines did not help Nigerian voters

By The Insight Team 400
By Theophilus Abbah “I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as an Assistant Presiding Officer at a polling unit in Nasarawa State during Nigeria’s 2023 elections. Connected through a mutual acquaintance, she has agreed to a telephonic interview to share her struggles with the new technology that was Continue Reading
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