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Leah Sharibu: Boko Haram rejected ransom — Government sources

By The Insight Team February 17, 2020 722 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency told Daily Trust yesterday. Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls’ Science […]Continue Reading

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Notes on engaging Nigeria’s ruling class

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 951 0

By Edwin Madunagu Nigeria’s ruling class has presented the nation with a number of issues around which the Nigerian Left can build an agenda of political engagement for the year 2020, or which, to use an old journalistic expression, the Left can use as “pegs” to construct an agenda of close and integrated engagement with […]Continue Reading

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Bandits, kidnappers hiding at national parks — Senate

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 772 0

The Senate has raised the alarm that national parks across the country have become safe havens for bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers. According to the Senate, the criminals come out to attack and return back there for safety. It called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the nation’s security architecture in line […]Continue Reading

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The Imbalance in NDDC as it Affects Imo and Ondo States

By The Insight Team February 13, 2020 1032 0

By Eric Teniola Since 2000 every President in Nigeria has been unfair to Ondo and Imo states in terms of appointments of chairman/Managing Director/Executive Director in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). It does not matter the quantum of oil produced in those two states as long as they are still members of the NNDC, […]Continue Reading

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10 reasons why Boko Haram still shoots and bombs despite defeat

By The Insight Team February 11, 2020 938 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah At the rate  Boko Haram terrorists launch suicide attacks, lay siege on the military, kill helpless civilians, and kidnap the vulnerable in the North-East in spite of their sack from Sambisa Forest, it is apparent that the violent jihadi sect has been deflated but not conquered. Not even when the sect is […]Continue Reading

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Why Nigeria has failed to achieve greatness – Kukah

By The Insight Team February 5, 2020 949 0

By Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Foundations once destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps. 11: 3) Let me first congratulate Dr. Bode Ayorinde, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of this august University and thank you immensely for the honour of being invited to give the Convocation Lecture and to also receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree […]Continue Reading

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10 Characteristics of 10 Jihadist Groups Troubling Sahel and Nigeria

By The Insight Team January 20, 2020 1099 Post a comment

Just as Boko Haram and ISWAP attacks have led to thousands of deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, so have these terror groups caused thousands of deaths in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic. The Jihadist groups include Macina Libration Front, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Ansaroul Islam, Katiba Serma, Al-Qaeda in […]Continue Reading

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Inside Nigeria’s Failed Vision 2020

By The Insight Team January 3, 2020 1422 Post a comment

Ten years may sound like a blurry, distant future. But built into them are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that provide harbor for infinitesimal opportunities that transform the lives of men and the fortunes of nations. Men and nations who benefit from time are those who employ their imagination in crafting long-term visions […]Continue Reading

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The Road-block Tragedy in Taraba

By The Insight Team August 14, 2019 983 0

By Danladi Andetu For the umpteenth time, the Nigeria Army is in the news over allegations of crime and unpatriotic conduct of some of its members. And for the umpteenth time also, Taraba State is at the receiving end of this perfidy that has become the trademark of military operations in the country, particularly in […]Continue Reading

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Clinics with nothing : How millions meant for the sick are never spent

By The Insight Team August 10, 2019 1075 0

Healthcare in Nigeria is incredibly complicated. Large budgets are trapped on different government levels, only accessible to those who know how to work the system. The Primary Healthcare Centre in Ugbamaka-Igah village in Kogi State, Nigeria, is overgrown with grasses. The labour and patient wards as well as the other rooms of the clinic are […]Continue Reading

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As Audu Ogbeh Takes the Back Seat

By The Insight Team August 9, 2019 1265 Post a comment

By Eric Teniola When President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, submitted his list of Ministers to the Senate on July 23, the name of Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh (72) was missing. He was one of the few ministers who was not re-nominated by the President. And this led to a conclusion that, perhaps, the public service career […]Continue Reading

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Vultures of steel: Ajaokuta where corruption is the system

By The Insight Team July 13, 2019 1574 0

Theophilus Abbah If corruption was an issue of the presence of individual ‘rotten apples’ in the state, it would suffice to arrest such individuals to cleanse the system. That it is not so proves the story of the steel plant of Ajaokuta, Nigeria, where corruption has been the system for decades. With a new legislature […]Continue Reading