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IPPIS will shut door against foreign scholars – ASUU leader Ogunyemi

By The Insight Team March 13, 2020 771

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet pin up mostbet mostbet The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has promised to review its ongoing two weeks warning strike it commenced on Monday, March 9 2020 following the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila. ASUU National President, Prof Abiodun Ogunyemi, said at a meeting convened by the […]Continue Reading

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Much ado about National Security Adviser

By The Insight Team March 12, 2020 856

By Eric Teniola General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the 7th Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s economy is not working – Dangote

By The Insight Team March 12, 2020 687

…says his firms lost N30bn profit to Apapa gridlock Business mogul and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday gave a poignant verdict on efforts by successive governments to transform the nation’s economy, saying that Nigeria’s economy is not working. This is as even as he said Nigeria’s economic diversification programme has been largely sluggish […]Continue Reading

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‘How Nigeria can cope with plummeting crude oil prices’

By The Insight Team March 10, 2020 990

Eliminate oil theft and leakages in the system Optimize supply chain Introduce alternative energies Maintenance of distribution infrastructure Passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill Remove fuel subsidy Bring in multiple players to participate in importation Oil marketers, under the umbrella of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), has said that the global Continue Reading

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Emir Sanusi dethronement breaks twitter

By The Insight Team March 9, 2020 692

The dethronement of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II has set tongues wagging. Here are what Nigerians have said about it on twitter: The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II (KCOB) has finally been removed. This was coming. He has lost traditional power but his influence will always be telling on politics in Nigeria as a whole. […]Continue Reading

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How to deal with economic fallout of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team March 6, 2020 686

…Roles of CBN, Ministry of Finance Apart from being a health challenge, Coronavirus is taking its toll on the economy of many countries, including Nigeria. For instance, capital markets have been plummeting, with a huge loss as high as 10 per cent, in the last few weeks. Many economies are not functioning effectively, as supply […]Continue Reading

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Peace Journalism: A Tool to Fighting Boko Haram Insurgents in the Northeast Nigeria

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 728

By Aondover Eric Msughter There is no doubt that the media have the capacity and moral obligation to create awareness and educate citizen about the counter and prevent act of terrorism by making them approachable enough so that every citizen can approach them with their suggestions about how to create a terrorism-free world. In reporting […]Continue Reading

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Damboa Attack: Zulum Hails Military for Decisive Blow on Boko Haram

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 710

 … Scores of insurgents killed,19 fighter vehicles seized … ‘Taking the war to fleeing insurgents impressive’ Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even when Continue Reading

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Insecurity in Nigeria: What can the Left do?

By The Insight Team March 4, 2020 660

By Edwin Madunagu Reflections on the current “insecurity” and “threatening state failure” in Nigeria – and what the Nigerian Left can do – recently led me, in a tortuous manner, back to a formulation on revolutionary intervention which I thought I had transcended long ago. We shall first discuss the formulation and then come to […]Continue Reading

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Immunity for lawmakers will leave Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda in tatters

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 615

By Kolawole Olaniyan When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But the recent push by many lawmakers from his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to grant themselves immunity […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram Burns Houses, Rapes, Displaces Thousands in Cameroon – Report

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 775

Boko Haram has attacked a refugee camp in Cameroon where over 3,000 persons, driven from their homes as a result of terrorist attacks, have taken refuge. The attack was reported by the Voice of America, which said the attacked camp was located at the northern border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Refugees had poured into the […]Continue Reading

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How Boko Haram attacked churches in Garkida – Report

By The Insight Team March 2, 2020 792

The town of Garkida in northeastern Nigeria was attacked by Boko Haram the night of Feb. 21-22. A number of buildings were burned, including the church building for Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN—the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). The EYN women’s fellowship of Garkida district was having its annual conference at the church that […]Continue Reading