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From Partnership to Progress: SDP4 and the Future of UK–Nigeria Security Cooperation

By The Insight Team June 23, 2026 79

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet By Chido Onumah Today, Abuja hosts the Fourth United Kingdom–Nigeria Security and Defence Partnership (SDP4) Dialogue, marking another important milestone in one of the most consequential bilateral security relationships on the African continent. More than a diplomatic engagement, SDP4 arrives at a defining moment for both countries and for the wider international security Continue Reading

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Beyond Training: Building Systems That Let Africa’s Public Servants Deliver

By The Insight Team June 22, 2026 79

By Chioma Njoku, Director of Programmes, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation   Africa does not have a talent problem. Walk into any ministry, any government agency, any public institution in Nigeria, and I dare say, across the continent, and you will find people who are capable, committed and aware of what needs to change. What you will also […]Continue Reading

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After On Nigeria: Who Will Fund Democracy in Nigeria?

By The Insight Team June 18, 2026 101

By Dayo Olaide, Development and Philanthropy expert Nigeria’s democracy is entering dangerous territory, with governance failures worsening. Unfortunately, donor support for transparency, accountability, and democracy programming in Nigeria is being withdrawn under the radar. Should Nigerians be worried? For nearly a decade, major donor-funded programs supported efforts to 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 June 12, 2026 214

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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Sierra Leone’s Maada Bio Advocates Visionary Legacy For West Africa

By The Insight Team June 4, 2026 172

By Lindsay Barrett (With additional reporting from Sierra Leone Presidential Information Service) President Bio Greets the Dominican-born Member of the House of Lords and Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal. One of the most prestigious delegates at the Colloquium. The President of Sierra Leone Dr. Continue Reading

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It Is the Cosmic — What We Do Returns to Us, Says Babafemi Ojudu

By The Insight Team May 29, 2026 139

In a candid and reflective piece, former Senator Babafemi Ojudu has delved into the concept of karma, describing how the consequences of human actions, particularly in the exercise of power, inevitably return to their originators in what he terms a cosmic cycle. Ojudu made it clear that he was not attempting to explore the deep […]Continue Reading

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2027 Elections: My fears for Professor Amupitan

By The Insight Team May 26, 2026 233

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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Africa: Search for Inter-Faith Partnerships For Peace

By The Insight Team May 12, 2026 135

By Francis Femi For a continent that is torn by forces of religious extremism, accompanied by destruction of lives and property in some countries, especially Nigeria, the commendation by Pope Leo XIV to the delegates of the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA) during a recent visit to the Vatican to promote a harmonious […]Continue Reading

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An encounter with a soldier who fought bandits in North-West 

By The Insight Team May 1, 2026 1151

My spirit dwindled, and my heart sank as dark-faced military personnel flagged my car down at a mischievous checkpoint on the outskirts of Lokoja en route Abuja. Emerging from the snarling traffic on the rickety road at Felele in Lokoja, I was charged for the two-hour ride to Abuja in my Mercedes-Benz car on that […]Continue Reading

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To Defeat Terror, Nigeria Must Channel Bibi’s Anger

By The Insight Team April 25, 2026 323

My circle and that of the late Brigadier General Oseni Braimah never once overlapped. Yet his murder by Boko Haram and ISWAP on April 9, 2026, in Benisheikh, Borno State, struck me with the force of a personal bereavement. It felt as though death had robbed me of a bosom friend on the highway of […]Continue Reading

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Chido Onumah @60: A man so good, yet so true

By The Insight Team April 10, 2026 230

By Uche Ugboajah There are some people who come into your life and you wish you had never met them. Yet there are others whom you meet and begin to wonder where they have been all your life. Dr. Chido Onumah belongs firmly to the latter category—those rare individuals you encounter, connect with instantly, and […]Continue Reading

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Dangote at 69: The Man Building Africa’s Industrial Backbone

By The Insight Team April 10, 2026 237

By Abiodun Alade As Aliko Dangote turns 69, his story demands to be read not as a biography of wealth, but as a case study in Africa’s unfinished industrial argument. For decades, the continent has lived with a structural contradiction. It exports raw materials and imports finished goods. It produces crude oil but imports refined […]Continue Reading