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Times of Unprecedented Crisis Present Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action

By The Insight Team August 13, 2020 822

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Nigeria-China loans: This is my story

By The Insight Team August 11, 2020 844

By Theophilus Abbah A hot and deadly arrow flying across Nigeria over Chinese loans hit my heart and mind last Friday, destabilizing my weekend, and leaving me with bleary eyes. The arrow was very devastating because, like every victim of misfortune, I did not forecast it. As the debate on the sovereignty clause in Chinese […]Continue Reading

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Omole’s ground-breaking approach to literary linguistics

By The Insight Team August 11, 2020 1187 Post a comment

BOOK REVIEW   Title:                            LINGUISTIC CRITICISM OF THE AFRICAN NOVEL Author:                        Kayode Omole Publisher:                    Bloom Media Network Ltd, Abuja, Nigeria Year of Publication:     2019 Number of Pages:       161 Reviewer:                    Prof Gbenga Ibileye   DISINTERING THE STYLISTICIAN’S PERSONA FROM HIS Continue Reading

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One by one those senators are departing

By The Insight Team August 10, 2020 1222

By Eric Teniola With the passage of Senator Ayomide Fasanmi (September 27, 1925 to July 29, 2020) the number of the ninety-five Senators, who served between October 1979 to October 1983, still alive has been reduced. I covered that Senate until Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), GCFR, terminated democracy in Nigeria on December 31st, 1983. […]Continue Reading

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Reorganising Nigeria’s Left Politics

By The Insight Team July 23, 2020 768

By Edwin Madunagu There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics on the other. That contradiction can be stated like this: Nigerian Leftists have always hoped to found […]Continue Reading

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AfDB impacts in Africa endorse Adesina’s second-term bid as president

By The Insight Team July 17, 2020 766

By Theophilus Abbah The impact of Dr Akinwumi Adesina’s presidency at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in the last five years could be felt and touched in many parts of Africa. They speak eloquently in favour of his re-election as president of the development bank, in spite of opposition from the United States. At an […]Continue Reading

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The Cost of Destroying Ibrahim Magu

By The Insight Team July 16, 2020 727

By Muni Williams On Monday, July 6, 2020, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, a police commissioner, was finally arrested on the streets of Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria. He was said to have been bundled unprepared to face an administrative panel of inquiry headed by a […]Continue Reading

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Abused decree no. 34 and the demand for restructuring

By The Insight Team July 16, 2020 1010

By Eric Teniola Sunday, May 24th was the 54th Anniversary of the Promulgation of Decree number 34 by Major General Johnson Thomas Umanakwe Aguiyi Ironsi (3rd March 1924- 29th July 1966). Few people remembered. It was the decree that transferred all the autonomous power of the four regions then to the center. The regions then […]Continue Reading

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Magu and albatross around EFCC chairmen’s neck

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 792

By Theophilus Abbah Nuhu Ribadu booted out, demoted (2008). Farida Waziri sacked! (2011). Ibrahim Lamorde removed, under probe (2015).  Ibrahim Magu arrested, detained, grilled (2019). With these fragmented statements and reads-on that scream from the headlines of dailies, each chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was, with bleary eyes, Continue Reading

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For Soyinka at 86, and a scoop denied    

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 773

By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By The Insight Team July 7, 2020 681

The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading

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Stop unprovoked attacks on Igala people

By The Insight Team June 29, 2020 900

Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO), an umbrella organization for all socio-cultural groups in Kogi East, has called for a halt to what it called ‘unprovoked attacks on the Igala kingdom’ over a court ruling that affirmed Igala ownership of Ajaokuta, Lokoja, and Koton-Karfe. In a statement signed by Comptroller Abdul Amade (rtd), the National Leader of […]Continue Reading