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Now, Nigerian journalists are trapped in ‘theatre of terror’

By The Insight Team 159 2
mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az 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
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Ministry Of Information To Spend Over ₦9bn Outside Statutory Mandate

By The Insight Team 135
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, image 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 144
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 271
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 284
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 286
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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US Congress Bill to Monitor How Nigeria Combats Terrorism

By The Insight Team 377
…Bill Targets Alleged Christian Persecution with Reporting Mandates, Potential Sanctions, and Terrorist Designations Key Points: The bill requires the U.S. Secretary of State to report on American efforts to combat religious persecution. It urges sanctions, visa bans, and asset freezes on Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and MACBAN over alleged roles in persecution. The legislation Continue Reading
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Lives of Rural Villagers Hold Little Value to Authorities in Nigeria – American Missionary

By The Insight Team 734
By Emmanuel Kwada American missionary Alex Barbir has issued a stark condemnation of the Nigerian government’s apparent indifference to ongoing violence in the Middle Belt, asserting that the lives of rural Christian villagers and indigenous communities “hold little value” to those in power. His comments come amid a recent trek into one of the Continue Reading
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Gumi: A Sheikh above the law in Nigeria

By The Insight Team 649
By Emmanuel Kwada  This week in Nigeria unfolded with gripping debates, bold accusations, and renewed calls for action as insecurity, governance failures, and regional tensions dominated the national mood. Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s controversial claim that the Nigerian Army “cannot defeat bandits” fuelled nationwide outrage and intensified demands for a Northern Continue Reading
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The Rise and Fall of Uche Nnaji: A Tech Minister’s Turbulent Journey

By The Insight Team 1070
Key points:  Overcame 1978 hardship, studied UNN 1981-85, built pharmaceutical empire Secured 2022 APC nomination, pushed tech-driven growth as contender Led 2023-25 AI, biotech, STEM as minister, faced credential doubts 2025 Premium Times exposé revealed fake UNN degree, NYSC fraud Resigned 2025 amid forgery scandal, faces EFCC probe, public outrage.   By Emmanuel Continue Reading
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FG received N12.3 trillion ($7.89bn) loans, grants to tackle poverty, but more Nigerians sink deeper into poverty

By The Insight Team 1553
Cost of living in urban centres is too high for the average salary earner Rural dwellers can’t survive on earnings from their farms From 2019 to 2025, Nigeria has been the destination of a floodgate of loans and grants for conditional and unconditional cash transfers The payment of cash transfers is not transparent Tinubu’s palliatives […]Continue Reading
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