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[Covid-19: My lockdown diary] Day 1: A ghostly spectacle after unusual Sunday worship

By The Insight Team March 31, 2020 848

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet By Theophilus Abbah President Muhammadu Buhari’s much-delayed and anxiously-awaited authoritative speech on Covid-19, delivered on Sunday, March 29, locked down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun from Monday, March 30. That’s for millions who wake up at sunrise and retire to bed at sunset in these cities. But as for me and the multitude to whom the […]Continue Reading

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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 848

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 in Nigeria: Cislac Demands Total Accountability of Donated Funds (Press Release)

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 921

While the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/ Transparency International in Nigeria commends and appreciates the ongoing donations by indigenous groups towards the combating the COVID-2019 virus pandemic and its socio-economic impacts, we at the same time, call for total accountability of the utilisation and distribution of funds. As we welcome the recent Continue Reading

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NIGERIA: WHAT TIME IS IT?

By The Insight Team March 25, 2020 1118

Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop, Sokoto Diocese 10th Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Convocation Lecture,  20th March 2020   Pressure from the VC made me hurriedly come up with a title as strange as this! However, it is a title that gives rise to many thoughts, particularly so as we look at our world, and more […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 simplified, by Yoweri Museveni.

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 777

President Yoweri Museveni. Countrymen and Countrywomen, Greetings to you all. Today, I have come to address you on the issue of the Corona virus, abbreviated as Covid19.  They call it corona because, under the micro-scope, it looks like a crown (ekiruunga, engure).  This is a new virus but it belongs to the family of the […]Continue Reading

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Much ado about National Security Adviser

By The Insight Team March 12, 2020 923

By Eric Teniola General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the 7th Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as […]Continue Reading

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‘How Nigeria can cope with plummeting crude oil prices’

By The Insight Team March 10, 2020 1052

Eliminate oil theft and leakages in the system Optimize supply chain Introduce alternative energies Maintenance of distribution infrastructure Passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill Remove fuel subsidy Bring in multiple players to participate in importation Oil marketers, under the umbrella of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), has said that the global Continue Reading

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How to deal with economic fallout of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team March 6, 2020 735

…Roles of CBN, Ministry of Finance Apart from being a health challenge, Coronavirus is taking its toll on the economy of many countries, including Nigeria. For instance, capital markets have been plummeting, with a huge loss as high as 10 per cent, in the last few weeks. Many economies are not functioning effectively, as supply […]Continue Reading

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Peace Journalism: A Tool to Fighting Boko Haram Insurgents in the Northeast Nigeria

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 798

By Aondover Eric Msughter There is no doubt that the media have the capacity and moral obligation to create awareness and educate citizen about the counter and prevent act of terrorism by making them approachable enough so that every citizen can approach them with their suggestions about how to create a terrorism-free world. In reporting […]Continue Reading

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Insecurity in Nigeria: What can the Left do?

By The Insight Team March 4, 2020 721

By Edwin Madunagu Reflections on the current “insecurity” and “threatening state failure” in Nigeria – and what the Nigerian Left can do – recently led me, in a tortuous manner, back to a formulation on revolutionary intervention which I thought I had transcended long ago. We shall first discuss the formulation and then come to […]Continue Reading

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Immunity for lawmakers will leave Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda in tatters

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 664

By Kolawole Olaniyan When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But the recent push by many lawmakers from his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to grant themselves immunity […]Continue Reading

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[Health] How to prevent Corona virus

By The Insight Team February 28, 2020 1024

On February 27, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of the corona virus in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said in a statement that an Italian citizen who worked in Nigeria returned from Italy on February 25, 2020 and tested positive for the virus. Here are some tips […]Continue Reading