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Is it true that no presidential candidate wins if he does not receive overwhelming votes from the Muslim-North?

By The Insight Team July 29, 2022 884 0

MYTHS, FACTS AND DATA ABOUT NIGERIA’S ELECTIONS By Daniel Adaji In the next few weeks, we shall make recourse to data to examine 10 myths about contemporary politics in Nigeria, especially in the context of the ongoing fears, tension, and hysteria over same-faith tickets in the race to change the baton of leadership in the […]Continue Reading

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Muslim – Muslim Ticket : Time For A Referendum Not Election

By The Insight Team July 16, 2022 1087 Post a comment

By Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo With the hue and cry of some Nigerians over the Muslim – Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s decision to pick Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, I cannot but ask why are they being unnecessarily emotional, sentimental, hypocritical and dramatic? As […]Continue Reading

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The Blunder in Not Having State Police

By The Insight Team July 15, 2022 853 0

By Eric Teniola The non inclusion of State Police in the Constitution was an error. It was a grave omission. The lapse occurred in 1976, forty-six years ago. No one could have imagined forty-six years ago that our security challenges would become so grave to this level, that we now live in perpetual fear at […]Continue Reading

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A trap for The Priest

By The Insight Team July 12, 2022 954 0

By Tony Adibe The drama entitled “The Priest” is set in the rural community called Ekwereazu apparently in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State which prides itself as the Eastern Heartland. The period of the play is perhaps the time in history when so much ignorance and lack of awareness dominated society especially […]Continue Reading

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When Supreme Court Justices turn whistleblowers

By The Insight Team July 12, 2022 723 0

By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem  On Thursday, July 14, 2022, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration with Yar’Adua Foundation will launch the Corruption Anonymous (CORA) whistleblowing platform at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The CORA platform is a secure civil society driven public whistleblowing tool through Continue Reading

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‘Why Chibok Schoolgirls were abducted’- by former Borno State Governor Shettima

By The Insight Team July 10, 2022 935 0

(This is an excerpt of an interview Governor Shettima granted Theophilus Abbah and published in Daily Trust on Sunday in May 2014) It’s about two weeks since Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram. Is there any good news for their parents? ‎That incident is one nightmare that troubles me so much as a father […]Continue Reading

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7 Lessons from Algeria in Fight against Bandits and Terrorists

By The Insight Team July 9, 2022 1002 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The 1990s was aptly tagged the ‘Black Decade’ in Algeria. It was not just black, it was deadly and pernicious. It was a decade of fire and brimstone when terrorists’ fire engulfed the country from Algiers, its capital city, to rural and isolated communities. Riding on the wings of warped Islamic […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s subsidy rising but not easing hardship

By The Insight Team July 4, 2022 915 2

How to abolish fuel subsidy without causing much pain By Daniel Adaji Since February 2022 Nigerians in the federal capital Abuja and some states have been enduring petrol scarcity, with regular long queues at petrol stations. The queues have continued despite the budgetary allocation of N4 trillion for fuel subsidy in 2022, which has provoked […]Continue Reading

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Defying Boko Haram For 13 Years Makes Northeast Hero of 23-Year Democracy

By The Insight Team June 12, 2022 951 0

Below is the full text of Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum’s speech to commemorate Nigeria’s 23rd Democracy Day: By Professor Babagana Zulum 1. It is now 23 uninterrupted years since Nigeria returned to democratic rule back in 1999. In those 23 years, societies across the country have witnessed different levels of progress and challenges. […]Continue Reading

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Climate change puts rice production at risk in Nigeria

By The Insight Team June 7, 2022 925 0

By Daniel Adaji In September 2020, a devastating flood that swept through Kebbi State, renowned for rice production, left hundreds of farmers in tears. The flood washed away rice farms in 11 local government areas of Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, Bunza, Suru, Koko-Besse, Yauri, Shanga, Bagudo, Maiyama, Jega, and Dandi. In a special report on the […]Continue Reading

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Sustainable lifestyle; panacea for looming food, energy crises

By The Insight Team May 30, 2022 912 0

…as Rev Martins warns of environmental pollution consequences  A case has been made for a sustainable lifestyle to stem the looming food and energy crises that may arise from the current climate change occasioned by environmental pollution and general mismanagement. This is the submission at a one-day conference in Lagos on the Preservation of the […]Continue Reading

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Russia invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 27, 2022 1308 0

By Theophilus Abbah & Daniel Adaji In December 2021, the price of family size Grand loaf, one of the popular bread in Abuja, Nigeria, was N600 ($1.43). As of April 2022, the price jumped to N850 ($2.02), an increase of about 41 per cent. The reason for this rise is not related to domestic economic […]Continue Reading