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Training Opportunity at Wits University on Media Freedom

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 894 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az The University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg has called for application for a free online journalism training.. The course would take place for a period of seven weeks and it would be titled “Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Africa”. The course is a free-of-charge MOOC (massive open online course) and it aims to […]Continue Reading

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“Majek Fashek: Still Raining, Gloriously” by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By The Insight Team June 2, 2020 739 0

In 1988, Majek Fashek released the album, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, which contained the hit song, Send Down the Rain. It was a very big hit, in what would be a very rainy year in  Nigeria! The radical lyrics were very much in tune with that period in history. The struggle against apartheid was reaching it’s […]Continue Reading

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Zenith bank emerges best bank in Nigeria in the global finance world’s best banks awards 2020

By The Insight Team June 1, 2020 759 0

Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the recently released Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks Awards 2020.   The awards, which was published in the May 2020 edition of the Global Finance Magazine, was based on the performances of the banks in their respective regions […]Continue Reading

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AfDB President, Adesina addresses corruption allegations

By The Insight Team May 28, 2020 779 0

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has come under pressure to address to the corruption allegations levelled against him. Below are his responses: Allegation No. 1 Not provided Allegation No. 2: Appointment of Mrs Chinelo ANOHU-AMAZU ADESINA: Ms Chinelo Anohu-AMAZU was recruited through a globally advertised, open and competitive Continue Reading

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HIV/AIDS Self-testing kit now available in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 21, 2020 1252 0

National AIDS and STDs Control Programme (NASCP) have launched a self-testing HIV/AIDS kit called “OraQuick”. The NASCP was instituted to complement efforts by the ministry of health towards the fight against HIV and AIDS.    Organiser of NASCP, Dr. Godwin Emmanuel, in a statement on Tuesday, November 19, gave a report on the OraQuick HIV […]Continue Reading

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Michael Nnadi and Bolanle Ataga: “Walking towards the barking dogs”- By Matthew Hassan Kukah

By The Insight Team May 21, 2020 727 0

The news of the capture of the kidnappers of the four Seminarians has been received with ecstasy and a sense of divine vindication both within and beyond the Catholic and Christian circles here in Nigeria. On the 25th April, I received a telephone call from Fr. Francis Agba, one of the Formators in the Good […]Continue Reading

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Zenith General Insurance’s profit before tax rises by 16% to N3.67bn

By The Insight Team May 18, 2020 710 0

Zenith General Insurance Limited has released its full-year financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019. A review of the results showed positive improvements on a year-on-year basis with profit before tax rising by 16% from N3.16bn to N3.67bn while profit after tax rose by 10% up from N2.79bn to N3.06bn. The company also […]Continue Reading

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Cameroon govt to help Archbishop who developed cure for COVID-19

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 668 0

By ChiefBisong Etahoben Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health has dispatched a team of government pharmacists to Douala, the country’s economic capital, to meet with the Archbishop of Douala, His Grace Samuel Kleda and discuss on how best government can assist in advancing the production of his Covid-19 herbal cure which he calls “Essential Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 769 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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The mid-term JEE 2019 in Nigeria: a need to boost epidemic preparedness further

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 688 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong In the third week of November 2019, experts in health security from 29 Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies gathered. Their task was to use a 49-indicator tool of the World Health Organisation to access Nigeria’s capacity to detect, prevent or respond to a disease outbreak—in effect, whether the country was prepared […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 11702 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By The Insight Team May 8, 2020 717 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari, on April 27, 2020 ordered the ease of lockdown in three major high-infection states in the country. The three states, Lagos, FCT, and Ogun, had been on lockdown since March 30. This decision was as a result of the impact the lockdown had on the economy. In his […]Continue Reading