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No report of mass violence, vote-buying in Osun guber poll -Police

By The Insight Team July 17, 2022 731 0

By Kelecho Ogunleye The police say they have yet to receive reports of violence or vote-buying in Saturday’s Osun governorship election. Mr. Johnson Kokumo, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) said this after a visit to ward 5, unit 5 Salvation Army alekuwodo polling unit in Osogbo. Kokumo said that […]Continue Reading

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Osun: Buhari congratulates Adeleke on election victory

By The Insight Team July 17, 2022 767 Post a comment

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Sen. Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the victory of the party in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun. The President’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja. The president expressed Continue Reading

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Muslim – Muslim Ticket : Time For A Referendum Not Election

By The Insight Team July 16, 2022 1097 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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Zulum allots 259 houses, N110 million to Borno police

By The Insight Team July 15, 2022 844 0

… IGP calls Governor’s support enormous Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday in Maiduguri, announced the government’s allocation of 259 houses and the release of N110m to the Nigerian Police Force in the state. Zulum made the announcement during the commissioning of Borno’s branch of the Nigerian Police Force Microfinance Bank Continue Reading

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The Blunder in Not Having State Police

By The Insight Team July 15, 2022 861 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 968 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 742 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 951 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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8 Dangerous conspiracy theories that hamper counter-terrorism in Nigeria – Governor Shettima

By The Insight Team July 10, 2022 1376 0

At a seminar organized by the Institute of Security Studies, Bwari, Abuja recently, Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima listed seven conspiracy theories about the insecurity in Nigeria and encourages efforts to dismiss them. They are below: Introduction: To my mind, the most ignored, yet very dangerous threat to our Nation’s internal security and governance is […]Continue Reading

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7 Lessons from Algeria in Fight against Bandits and Terrorists

By The Insight Team July 9, 2022 1015 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 936 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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How MacArthur Foundation Projects Boost COVID Recovery In Nigeria

By The Insight Team June 28, 2022 1120 Post a comment

By Ibrahim Zikirullahi and Armsfree Ajanaku Although the dreadful Corona Virus outbreak that convulsed the world in 2020 appears to be receding, the devastation it imposed continues to stare governments and citizens in the face. For many Nigerians who found themselves in a state of hysteria and uncertainty, it appears that the worst of what […]Continue Reading