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

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 696 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 812 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 714 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 13271 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 748 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

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Coronavirus: “The media is on the frontlines”, by Eugenia Abu 

By The Insight Team April 25, 2020 736 0

For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The […]Continue Reading

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COVID-19: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?” by Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR

By The Insight Team April 24, 2020 926 0

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]Continue Reading

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Ugandan security personnel enforcing COVID-19 measures assault journalists

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 877 0

The Committee to Protect Journalists have called on Ugandan authorities to investigate security forces’ recent attacks against journalists and hold those responsible to account. Since March 19, security forces have harassed or assaulted at least six journalists in the country while enforcing restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to the journalists, Continue Reading

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Malam Abba Kyari: a brother, friend and patriot, by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 1081 0

I have been in shock, since news broke, of the passing of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late on Friday night, the 17th of April, that it has been difficult for me, to concentrate on literally any other thought, except the incredible life that Mal Abba lived, and the gravity of […]Continue Reading

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Re-introducing “The Lugano Report” by Edwin Madunagu

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 750 0

Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the Pluto Press, London, released a book with the title: “The Lugano Report” and subtitle, “On preserving capitalism in the 21st century”. The author, Susan George, who shares this name with another well-known but much younger woman, was born Continue Reading

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Covid-19 Today

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 852 0

Here is an update on Covid-19 in Nigeria     Latest Report InfogramContinue Reading

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10 Takeaway from Buhari’s second speech on Covid-19

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 985 0

 92% of all identified contacts with Covid-19 positive persons has been identified. Testing capacity doubled – 1,500 tests could be conducted daily 7,000 health care workers trained in ‘infection prevention and control’ Health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment NCDC team deployed Continue Reading