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Regrouping Sokoto bandits force thousands out of their communities

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 941 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 753 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

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WEMA ALAT: Appreciating a technology-led Bank

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 911 0

With the growing face of competitiveness and many luring offers by different financial institutions in the country today, it takes the ingenuity and resourcefulness of each institution to remain relevant to its customers. The development of the Nigerian economy has not been stable over the years. Due to this, the country’s economy has gone through […]Continue Reading

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Meet Lamido Yuguda, the new SEC boss

By The Insight Team July 13, 2020 1126 0

President Muhammadu Buhari, recently appointed an Economist, Dr. Lamido Yuguda, as the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This brings to an end, the 2-year long controversy surrounding the office of the DG, SEC. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), a CFA charter holder, and also […]Continue Reading

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Magu and albatross around EFCC chairmen’s neck

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 892 0

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 858 0

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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[Terrorism Tracker] Joint Task Force, Mama Boko Haram, and other stories

By The Insight Team July 9, 2020 800 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday As Nigerians worry about Covid-19, they tend to push the activities of terrorists and bandits to the background. However, these evil men have killed many more persons than Covid-19 has in the last four months and counting. In this edition of Terrorism Tracker, we provide insight into the perennial violence and […]Continue Reading

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‘When I was a Boko Haram member’

By The Insight Team July 9, 2020 914 0

By Mustapha Bukar Sabo In modern-day Nigeria, Borno is referred to as Home of Peace.  Its history is synonymous with statecraft, Islam, and scholarship.  When Kanem Borno was relating to the outside world in trade and international relations, most nationalities in Nigeria were unaware of the outside world.  It is the home of Islamic Continue Reading

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How Nigeria can survive the oil slump – NEITI

By The Insight Team July 9, 2020 873 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has come up with a prescription on how Nigeria can cope with the current economic challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic. NEITI is a government agency task with the challenge of ensuring accountability and transparency in the solid mineral and natural resources sector. In its […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By The Insight Team July 7, 2020 783 0

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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Zenith Bank ranked number one bank in Nigeria by tier-1 capital

By The Insight Team July 1, 2020 901 0

Zenith Bank Plc has again emerged the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2020 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking published by The Banker Magazine. Climbing a whopping 29 spots from 415 in 2019 to 386 in the 2020 global ranking of banks, Zenith Bank retained its position as the number one […]Continue Reading

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Stop unprovoked attacks on Igala people

By The Insight Team June 29, 2020 1002 0

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