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Now, every Nigerian owes China over N15,000

By The Insight Team September 3, 2018 1107 0

Every Nigerian owes China about N15,000 at the moment in goodwill and in debt, considering the quantum of Chinese aid for development, welfare and loans in the last few years. As at 2014, Nigeria was the sixth country on the list of third world countries that had received aid from China. It received the sum […]Continue Reading

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But the “President” is mentioned 22 times in the Petroleum Bill

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1333 0

The return of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill 2018, harmonized by the Senate and House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday coincided with a session on extractive sector (mining, oil and gas) legal framework that we were taken through in Accra, Ghana on the same day. Organised by the […]Continue Reading

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Shocking things Ghana’s Auditor-General said about oil and gas

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1189 0

In the last decade I’ve been haunted by an opaque expression: ‘the oil and gas sector is opaque.’ What is opaque? What is oil and gas? The simple definition of opaque is “not transparent,” and it has synonyms like “cloudy,” “blurred,” “dirty,” “muddy,” “hazy,” etc. Is Continue Reading

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Thank you all; Thank you Lord

By The Insight Team August 27, 2018 888 Post a comment

As the castle of Journalism where I had been secure for two decades crashed earlier this year into bricks and rubble, exposing my life to whirlwind, tornado and tsunami, my inner eyes did not foresee another sunrise, not a sunrise on Sunday, August 26, 2018, my birthday. I could not imagine a sunrise in a […]Continue Reading

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2019: APC Alerts Nigerians on Arms Seizure Over Elections

By The Insight Team August 26, 2018 1166 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over arms build up in the country following the interception of Nigeria-bound arms in South Africa. A statement today by its spokesman, Mr Yekini Nabena, said the arms seizure was a red flag for security agencies to be very vigilant as the country approaches the next […]Continue Reading

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10 national issues being lost to 2019 power noise

By The Insight Team August 25, 2018 1229 0

The next general election is six months away. Not, government seems to have surrendered its duties to the noise of the power riddle, abandoning many issues of national importance. Below is a list of some of such issues that federal and state governments have relegated to the background in their anxiety to secure ‘the people’s […]Continue Reading

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Sadly, terror attacks leave over 600 dead

By The Insight Team August 22, 2018 919 0

… In Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan… Terrorist organisations that harbour anti-establishment, anti-West, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic ideologies have stepped up their attacks, recording sinful successes and forcing back the hand of the clock where successes seemed to have been recorded in the last few years. In Nigeria, for instance, there have been more Continue Reading

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20 Strategies of Boko Haram, other terror groups

By The Insight Team August 19, 2018 1045 0

The United Nations Security Council report on the state of terrorist groups in the Levant (Syria and Iraq), Middle East, Europe, Africa, South-East Asia, Central and South Asia elicited diverse reactions in Nigeria. Prominence was given to the speculation that the Federal Government parted with huge sums as ransom to secure the release of 105 […]Continue Reading

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ISIS and Leah Sharibu’s 150 days in Boko Haram Den

By The Insight Team July 30, 2018 989 0

On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, Miss Leah Sharibu, the 15-year-old girl who defied Boko Haram’s conversion strategy, marked 150th ugly days in the dangerous Lake Chad desert with the terrorists. Some of the abducted and later freed 105 students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, claimed that the Abu Mus’ab Albarnawi […]Continue Reading

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Nigerian presidency can’t be bought with money – Makarfi

By The Insight Team July 7, 2018 957 0

Senator Ahmed Makarfi is a former governor of Kaduna State, who also served as the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and now one of the over 12 presidential aspirants of the party. In this interview, the two-term senator speaks on issues surrounding his party’s presidential ticket, his chances […]Continue Reading

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Between a citizen’s rights and a legislator’s privileges

By The Insight Team June 7, 2018 949 0

Wikipedia defines a privilege as “a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. These can be revoked in certain circumstances. In modern democratic states, a privilege is conditional and granted only after birth. By contrast, a #right is an […]Continue Reading

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#NotTooYoungToRunBill: The game-changing bill brought to life by Saraki’s Senate

By The Insight Team June 7, 2018 881 0

Many Nigerian youths are still hungover from the celebrations of the signing of the #NotTooYoungToRun bill by President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday but it is only fair to note that while the President gave his assent to the historical bill, it was the Nigerian Senate, led by Dr Bukola Saraki, The Senate President who took […]Continue Reading