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The DPRK Seen through Questions

By The Insight Team August 26, 2020 764 0

Those who visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea often encounter surprising realities.  Democr Are the Workers Really Living Here? There are sky-scraping apartment houses on Changjon Street with modern architectural beauty and workers’ dormitories at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill and Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in the capital of Continue Reading

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‘The order of things’

By The Insight Team August 26, 2020 974 0

By Obadiah Mailafia There was a storm in a teacup the other day. It involved, shall we say, yours sincerely. Life itself, as I’m sure my gentle readers would agree, is a risk. Once in a while, you have to wager some big risks. The philosopher Aristotle famously declared that for you to have absolutely […]Continue Reading

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‘The states are dying’

By The Insight Team August 19, 2020 1069 0

By Eric Teniola There is a hardly a day that goes by now, that we don’t read in the media of billions of naira being stolen by an agency in the central government. The whole thing is sickening. The rate at which money is being stolen in the central government has become like a curse. […]Continue Reading

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Times of Unprecedented Crisis Present Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action

By The Insight Team August 13, 2020 878 0

By Graça Machel, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, Dr. Vera Songwe, and Maria Ramos COVID-19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens that women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs of managing the virus as well as future-looking to Continue Reading

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Nigeria-China loans: This is my story

By The Insight Team August 11, 2020 902 0

By Theophilus Abbah A hot and deadly arrow flying across Nigeria over Chinese loans hit my heart and mind last Friday, destabilizing my weekend, and leaving me with bleary eyes. The arrow was very devastating because, like every victim of misfortune, I did not forecast it. As the debate on the sovereignty clause in Chinese […]Continue Reading

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How Panel exonerated AfDB President Adesina

By The Insight Team July 28, 2020 818 0

A panel of high-level independent experts reviewed the report of the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank and the Response of President, Akinwumi Adesina. The Independent Review Panel exonerated the President of the African Development Bank in a report. Below are some of the findings of the report: On non –respect of internal rules […]Continue Reading

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ISS: New insights into how communities resist Boko Haram

By The Insight Team July 27, 2020 902 0

By Akinola Olojo, Senior Researcher, ISS Communities affected by violent extremism are frequently considered to have risk factors linked to socio-economic deprivation, bad governance, and religious radicalization. These factors prevail across the whole of northern Nigeria, and in the north-eastern Bauchi and Gombe states. However, despite Boko Haram’s factions being Continue Reading

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Over 130 killed in Kaduna in 6 months

By The Insight Team July 24, 2020 853 0

No fewer than 130 persons have been killed in Kaduna State this year, according to media reports. Data mined by this website show that most of the killings took place in Kajuru Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna. As a result of the killings many women of Southern Kaduna came out in their numbers to […]Continue Reading

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Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono arrested, charged with incitement in Zimbabwe

By The Insight Team July 20, 2020 912 0

New York, July 20, 2020 – Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release independent investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and drop the incitement charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At about 11 a.m. today, Chin’ono posted two short messages on his Twitter account, which are no longer available Continue Reading

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Dangote Cement Promo 2: Fresh Goodies for Potential Consumers, Winners

By The Insight Team July 20, 2020 777 0

In a process which brings back fond memories from Season 1, Nigerians, especially cement consumers are in for another jolly time, as Dangote Cement Plc, Nigeria’s leading cement manufacturer unveils Season 2 of its Bag of Goodies national consumer promo to reward its consumers with various mouth-watering prizes The people who put their hands in […]Continue Reading

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Regrouping Sokoto bandits force thousands out of their communities

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 903 0

Recent military operations in Sokoto has seen bandits regrouping away from their usual hideouts. In retaliation for aerial bombardments by the Nigerian Air Force, they have been attacking villages, displacing thousands of farmers.  Our correspondent speaks to some of the people displaced by this latest twist in the bandits’ crisis. Recent military bombardments Continue Reading

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Magu and albatross around EFCC chairmen’s neck

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 850 0

By Theophilus Abbah Nuhu Ribadu booted out, demoted (2008). Farida Waziri sacked! (2011). Ibrahim Lamorde removed, under probe (2015).  Ibrahim Magu arrested, detained, grilled (2019). With these fragmented statements and reads-on that scream from the headlines of dailies, each chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was, with bleary eyes, Continue Reading