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Gbajabiamila to propose bill that will ensure two months free electricity supply

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 818 0

The House of Representatives is to consider a fresh Stimulus Bill that will ensure that Nigerians get free electricity supply for two months to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Speaker Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila said the proposed Bill is to help in boosting the economy through the informal sector as the country prepares for […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s unhealthy healthcare in the eye of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 824 0

By Runcie C.W. Chidebe Coronavirus (COVID-19) is here to teach us a lesson; I hope we learn. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy. But instead of fixing it our rulers have been busy flying up and down to benefit from other country’s productive health system. With Coronavirus, reality is upon us. No more running overseas for medical […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 4: Fighting a deadly disease with ill-motivated forces

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 1065 0

Tea. Yam. Eba. Beans. Bread. Food, food, food. Eat. Eat. Eat. I’ve begun to feel guilty, like I felt as a boy, and being fed by my mother. I tell this story to my children to discourage them from yielding to the snare of gluttony. On many occasions, my mother would whip me with her […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Today’s Report

By The Insight Team April 3, 2020 731 0

The charts below show the current state of Covid-19 in Nigeria. Death is still low, but there are concerns about its spread in the South-West, especially. There are fewer cases in the North. But this does not give a clear idea of the situation there, because fewer tests have been conducted in that part of […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 3 – Breakfast without bread in a blackout

By The Insight Team April 3, 2020 777 0

By Theophilus Abbah Blanket blackout, darkness, sweats and fatigue ruled and ruined the night before Tuesday, March 31, when life would grind to a halt and the curse, we, Abuja residents, feared most would be unleashed to drench and drown us. Blackout, because electricity supply had become so unreliable that both government and the governed […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My Lockdown Diary] Day 2: It’s like the end of the world has come

By The Insight Team April 1, 2020 880 0

By Theophilus Abbah Though I announced, on Day 1, that, for me, the lockdown for coronavirus started on Sunday, March 29, Nigeria’s strict social distancing, a preventive measure, officially took effect from Monday, March 30. It would be intensified on Tuesday, March 31 – for two weeks. I’m no clairvoyant, but I was still curious […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My lockdown diary] Day 1: A ghostly spectacle after unusual Sunday worship

By The Insight Team March 31, 2020 889 0

By Theophilus Abbah President Muhammadu Buhari’s much-delayed and anxiously-awaited authoritative speech on Covid-19, delivered on Sunday, March 29, locked down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun from Monday, March 30. That’s for millions who wake up at sunrise and retire to bed at sunset in these cities. But as for me and the multitude to whom the […]Continue Reading

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Shutting down population movement will not extinguish the Coronavirus epidemics- World Health Organization

By The Insight Team March 31, 2020 837 0

The World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the lockdown of countries in curtailing the spread of COVID19. In a statement by the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, it said that: “We understand that countries are trying to assess when and how they will be able to ease these measures. The answer depends on […]Continue Reading

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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 886 0

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 in Nigeria: Cislac Demands Total Accountability of Donated Funds (Press Release)

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 954 0

While the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/ Transparency International in Nigeria commends and appreciates the ongoing donations by indigenous groups towards the combating the COVID-2019 virus pandemic and its socio-economic impacts, we at the same time, call for total accountability of the utilisation and distribution of funds. As we welcome the recent Continue Reading

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10 Main Points in Buhari’s Covid-19 Speech

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 940 0

Whole instrument of government mobilized to tackle pandemic Covid-19 has no cure to date Three preventive measures are (i) regular hygiene (ii) sanitary practice (iii) social distancing N15 billion set aside as response Citizens in Lagos, FCT and Ogun should stay at home Air travels suspended Relief materials for satellite towns in Lagos and Abuja […]Continue Reading

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NIGERIA: WHAT TIME IS IT?

By The Insight Team March 25, 2020 1155 0

Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop, Sokoto Diocese 10th Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Convocation Lecture,  20th March 2020   Pressure from the VC made me hurriedly come up with a title as strange as this! However, it is a title that gives rise to many thoughts, particularly so as we look at our world, and more […]Continue Reading