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Dangote Sugar increase production by 13.7% despite pandemic

By The Insight Team March 2, 2021 244 0

Despite the disruptions to the economy, owning majorly to coronavirus pandemic, Dangote Sugar Refinery recorded an increase in production volume which rose by 13.7 percent to 743,858 tonnes in the financial year ended December 31, 2020, compared to 654,071 tonnes in 2019. The sugar group also posted an increase in sales volume which rose by   […]Continue Reading

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Dangote Grooms Nigerian Engineers to Manage Refinery Complex on Completion

By The Insight Team March 1, 2021 253 0

The Management of Dangote Oil Refinery is preparing young Nigerian graduates to take over the management of its 650,000 barrels per day single train refinery when it becomes operational in 2022. Already, the company has trained several Nigerian engineers in some of the world’s biggest refineries in India and other parts of the world to […]Continue Reading

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Dr Amaechi Matthew Nwaokolo (1961-2021): Exit of a counter-terrorism ideologue

By The Insight Team February 19, 2021 273 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD He was not a theatre commander in any of the military’s offensives against Boko Haram or bandits. He was not a member of the Multi-National Joint Task Force battling terrorists in the Lake Chad region. He was not an official of the Ministry of Defense or in the Office of the […]Continue Reading

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‘Feature of the Workers’ Party of Korea’

By The Insight Team February 11, 2021 221 0

The Workers’ Party of Korea carries out without fail whatever it is determined to do. What is the secret then? First, it solves all the problems relying on the people. It is its will that nothing is impossible as long as it believes the people and relies on them. By relying on the people, it […]Continue Reading

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5 Reasons Why Nigeria Scored Low on Corruption Perceptions Index 2020:

By The Insight Team February 4, 2021 263

  …What should be done to improve it The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released globally by Transparency International (TI) recently has shown that Nigeria yet again, records a decline in the CPI in 2020. In the report published exclusively in Nigeria by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the National Chapter of TI, […]Continue Reading

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The National Question and the Quest for Restructuring in Nigeria

By The Insight Team February 3, 2021 306 0

By Chido Onumah  Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks, or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, landmarks would include October 1, 1960, (the day Nigeria gained independence from Britain), January 15, 1966, (when the Continue Reading

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Sad Return to Broken Chains

By The Insight Team February 3, 2021 316 0

By Eric Teniola In June 2005 we were so ecstatic in celebrating the debt relief offered us, a relief of over $20billion, which was beyond the total revenue of Nigeria for one year. So happy were we that President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, had to make a broadcast to the nation on June 30, 2005. He […]Continue Reading

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Buba Marwa Resumes as NDLEA Boss, Bemoans 15 million Drug Users in Nigeria

By The Insight Team January 18, 2021 330 0

The New Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brigadier General Mohammad Buba Marwa has bemoaned the increasing number of drug users at over 15 million in Nigeria. Marwa who lamented the growing population of drug users during his inaugural address at the NDLEA headquarters Abuja pointed out […]Continue Reading

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‘When Homecoming is Dangerous’

By The Insight Team January 18, 2021 223 0

By Frank Tietie Ogacheko Atanu, an Idah born, world acclaimed and Saudi Arabia based drilling engineer was assassinated by unknown gunmen on Saturday, 9th of January, 2021 while holidaying in his country home in Idah, Kogi State of Nigeria. He was scheduled to travel back to Saudi on the morning of the next day before […]Continue Reading

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Remaking Nigeria, Sixty Years After

By The Insight Team January 5, 2021 256 0

By Chido Onumah “…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices   “A country is as good […]Continue Reading

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Here is Bishop Kukah’s misinterpreted 2020 Christmas Day message

By The Insight Team December 29, 2020 325 0

A Nation in Search of Vindication: Another Christmas with Dark Clouds of Death:   Let me paraphrase the holy prophet Isaiah who said: “For Jerusalem (Nigeria’s sake), I will not be silent until her vindication shines forth like the dawn…..No more shall people call you forsaken, or your land desolate, but you shall be called […]Continue Reading

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How Do I Write A Tribute For Sam Nda-Isaiah?

By The Insight Team December 14, 2020 284 0

It was a short post from Isiaq Ajibola, former COO of Media Trust, on the WhatsApp platform of the Northern Media Forum, that drew attention to the passing of Sam Nda-Isaiah, just a few minutes past midnight, today, Saturday, 12th December 2020. To say that I was stunned, was to understate my emotions! I placed […]Continue Reading