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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 891 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az   ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 simplified, by Yoweri Museveni.

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 814 0

President Yoweri Museveni. Countrymen and Countrywomen, Greetings to you all. Today, I have come to address you on the issue of the Corona virus, abbreviated as Covid19.  They call it corona because, under the micro-scope, it looks like a crown (ekiruunga, engure).  This is a new virus but it belongs to the family of the […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank donates N100m support to emergency relief fund

By The Insight Team March 20, 2020 806 0

L-R: Executive Director, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Henry Oroh; Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Zenith Bank, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Executive Director, Zenith Bank, Dr. Temitope Fasoranti; Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadiri Hamzat; and Executive Director, Zenith Bank, Mr. Dennis Olisa during the visit by the Executive Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: To secure IDP camps, Zulum summons UN agencies, government multi-stakeholders to Borno’s emergency response plan

By The Insight Team March 19, 2020 802 0

…No cause for alarm To prevent spread of Coronavirus with potential for wild-fire effect at internally displaced persons’ camps, Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has convened a multi-stakeholder meeting in Maiduguri which adopted a response plan. The meeting which held today, Thursday, in Maiduguri, was attended by senior officials of the World Health Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank fetes shareholders with dividend payout of N87.9 billion

By The Insight Team March 17, 2020 1028 0

Shareholders of Zenith Bank Plc, on Monday, at the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Bank held at the Shehu Musa Yaradua Centre, Abuja unanimously approved the proposed final dividend of N2.50 per share, bringing the total dividend payment for the 2019 financial year to N2.80 per share with a total value of N87.9 billion. […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: myths, facts and issues in Africa

By The Insight Team March 13, 2020 964 0

Some African countries do not have testing capacity for the COVID-19. Out of 54 countries in Africa, only 37 of these countries have testing capacities for the virus. Seventeen other countries have no capacity to conduct tests for coronavirus, according to New Scientist. The publication said further that most of the reported and confirmed cases […]Continue Reading

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IPPIS will shut door against foreign scholars – ASUU leader Ogunyemi

By The Insight Team March 13, 2020 824 0

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 958 0

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 777 0

…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 Continue Reading

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‘How Nigeria can cope with plummeting crude oil prices’

By The Insight Team March 10, 2020 1079 0

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 761 0

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 760 0

…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