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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By The Insight Team May 8, 2020 794 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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Ugandan security personnel enforcing COVID-19 measures assault journalists

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 930 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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[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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[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

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[My Covid-19 Diary]: Day 5 – Coronavirus infects the flesh and heart of media

By The Insight Team April 7, 2020 852 3

Like Israelites who lost appetite for Manna and panted for flesh in the desert, I began to thirst and hunger after news in the print format. My hankering for news online dwindled and faded as the borders among social media platforms blurred on my handheld device and laptop. I craved for my newspaper with varieties […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 4: Fighting a deadly disease with ill-motivated forces

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 1195 0

Tea. Yam. Eba. Beans. Bread. Food, food, food. Eat. Eat. Eat. I’ve begun to feel guilty, like I felt as a boy, and being fed by my mother. I tell this story to my children to discourage them from yielding to the snare of gluttony. On many occasions, my mother would whip me with her […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My Lockdown Diary] Day 2: It’s like the end of the world has come

By The Insight Team April 1, 2020 960 0

By Theophilus Abbah Though I announced, on Day 1, that, for me, the lockdown for coronavirus started on Sunday, March 29, Nigeria’s strict social distancing, a preventive measure, officially took effect from Monday, March 30. It would be intensified on Tuesday, March 31 – for two weeks. I’m no clairvoyant, but I was still curious […]Continue Reading

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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 996 0

  ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading

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How to deal with economic fallout of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team March 6, 2020 857 0

…Roles of CBN, Ministry of Finance Apart from being a health challenge, Coronavirus is taking its toll on the economy of many countries, including Nigeria. For instance, capital markets have been plummeting, with a huge loss as high as 10 per cent, in the last few weeks. Many economies are not functioning effectively, as supply […]Continue Reading

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Damboa Attack: Zulum Hails Military for Decisive Blow on Boko Haram

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 890 0

 … Scores of insurgents killed,19 fighter vehicles seized … ‘Taking the war to fleeing insurgents impressive’ Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even Continue Reading

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Immunity for lawmakers will leave Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda in tatters

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 775 0

By Kolawole Olaniyan When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But the recent push by many lawmakers from his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to Continue Reading

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Boko Haram Burns Houses, Rapes, Displaces Thousands in Cameroon – Report

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 1051 0

Boko Haram has attacked a refugee camp in Cameroon where over 3,000 persons, driven from their homes as a result of terrorist attacks, have taken refuge. The attack was reported by the Voice of America, which said the attacked camp was located at the northern border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Refugees had poured into the […]Continue Reading