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Over 130 killed in Kaduna in 6 months

By The Insight Team July 24, 2020 819 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az No fewer than 130 persons have been killed in Kaduna State this year, according to media reports. Data mined by this website show that most of the killings took place in Kajuru Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna. As a result of the killings many women of Southern Kaduna came out in their numbers to […]Continue Reading

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Reorganising Nigeria’s Left Politics

By The Insight Team July 23, 2020 801 0

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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Aid workers’ execution: Zulum deeply pained, sends delegation to families

By The Insight Team July 23, 2020 688 0

…Says victims died as heroes Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is deeply pained by insurgents’ execution of aid workers whom he described as heroes that were gruesomely killed in the course of serving humanity. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in a statement released Thursday morning, that the Governor was informed of the execution on […]Continue Reading

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US agency endorses  electronic cigarette product 

By The Insight Team July 20, 2020 735 0

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) has authorized the marketing of an electrically heated tobacco system as a modified risk tobacco product (MRTP). This followed 43 months of evaluation of the products branded as IQOS which was developed by Philip Morris International, PMI, a leading US-based global tobacco company. Industry analyst Sebastien Satigui Continue Reading

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Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono arrested, charged with incitement in Zimbabwe

By The Insight Team July 20, 2020 880 0

New York, July 20, 2020 – Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release independent investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and drop the incitement charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At about 11 a.m. today, Chin’ono posted two short messages on his Twitter account, which are no longer available Continue Reading

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Dangote Cement Promo 2: Fresh Goodies for Potential Consumers, Winners

By The Insight Team July 20, 2020 748 0

In a process which brings back fond memories from Season 1, Nigerians, especially cement consumers are in for another jolly time, as Dangote Cement Plc, Nigeria’s leading cement manufacturer unveils Season 2 of its Bag of Goodies national consumer promo to reward its consumers with various mouth-watering prizes The people who put their hands in […]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 799 0

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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In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By The Insight Team July 17, 2020 817 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

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The Cost of Destroying Ibrahim Magu

By The Insight Team July 16, 2020 759 0

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 1041 0

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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Regrouping Sokoto bandits force thousands out of their communities

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 871 0

Recent military operations in Sokoto has seen bandits regrouping away from their usual hideouts. In retaliation for aerial bombardments by the Nigerian Air Force, they have been attacking villages, displacing thousands of farmers.  Our correspondent speaks to some of the people displaced by this latest twist in the bandits’ crisis. Recent military bombardments Continue Reading

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Bag of Goodies Promo: past star prize winners eagerly await season 2 kick-off

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 681 0

…Commend Dangote for transforming their lives Previous winners of star prizes in the Bag of Goodies national consumer promo Season 1 done by Dangote Cement Plc in 2019 have expressed huge excitement over the approaching Season 2 version, which is billed to take off nationwide in July. The star winners, among the 40 lucky individuals […]Continue Reading