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Inside Nigeria’s Failed Vision 2020

By The Insight Team January 3, 2020 1582 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 1149 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 1216 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 1402 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 1732 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

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Their African way: The business associates who help the kleptocrats (Transnational Investigation)

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 1079 0

By African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM team: David Dembélé (Mali), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Charles Mafa and John Mukela (Zambia), T. Kaiwonda Gaye* (Liberia), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), Purity Mukami with Africa Uncensored, Kenya “You must be very careful,” says the lawyer over the phone to the local reporter. “This is a Continue Reading

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Kashim Shettima’s Mega Legacy of Hope

By The Insight Team May 14, 2019 1391 0

Some bequeath concrete accomplishments; others bequeath abstract statistics. Some bequeath reasons for serving modestly, in fulfilment of their covenant with their people; others bequeath excuses for failing to serve, breaching the trust of their people. Some bequeath legacies of hope; others bequeath legacies of hopelessness. So, is the tradition of elective and public Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank posts N57b profit in 3 months

By The Insight Team April 19, 2019 1063 0

Zenith Bank Plc has posted a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N57 billion in the first quarter of 2019. This is contained in a statement released by the bank on Wednesday. The new profit is higher than what the bank recorded in the first quarter of 2018. The bank’s statement reads thus: “In the first […]Continue Reading

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Minimum wage: Nigeria lags behind war-weary Libya

By The Insight Team April 19, 2019 2062 Post a comment

Justina Adikwu (not real name) was excited that the abstract of conference paper was accepted by a committee in Europe. She was billed to make an oral presentation in September 2018. Having received all supporting documents, including an invitation letter, flight ticket, hotel accommodation, insurance cover, and other necessary documents, she went to the European […]Continue Reading

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Why Buhari should not impose leaders on NASS

By The Insight Team March 16, 2019 1503 0

Each Assembly, from 1999 to 2019, presents a lesson why imposition of leaders on National Assembly always boomerangs In the morning of power struggle for the leadership of the National Assembly, Nigerians heard the loud voices of some elected members of the National Assembly, saying the third arm of government, the Legislature, was waiting on […]Continue Reading

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Why Atiku seeks forensic examination of electoral materials

By The Insight Team March 8, 2019 1128 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) presidential candidate in February 23 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s desire to upturn President Buhari’s victory may have suffered a significant setback. This is because the Court of Appeal, which is the tribunal for the presidential elections dispute, declined Atiku’s lawyers’ demand for scanning Continue Reading

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Shedding blood for political power in Kogi East

By The Insight Team March 3, 2019 1235 0

By Ojotule Adogo Many Nigerians are exchanging banters while congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari for winning the 2019 presidential election. But at the same moment, many families in Kogi East, especially Igala-speaking communities, are mourning as a result of the killings and violence perpetuated by desperate All Progressives Congress (APC) agents during the Continue Reading