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Shocking things Ghana’s Auditor-General said about oil and gas

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1011

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet pin up mostbet mostbet In the last decade I’ve been haunted by an opaque expression: ‘the oil and gas sector is opaque.’ What is opaque? What is oil and gas? The simple definition of opaque is “not transparent,” and it has synonyms like “cloudy,” “blurred,” “dirty,” “muddy,” “hazy,” etc. Is the word, opaque, not a synonym of the phrase […]Continue Reading

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5 Revelations from Leah Sharibu’s Audio Tape

By The Insight Team August 27, 2018 934

A socio-pragmatic linguistic analysis of the transcript of the audio of Leah Sharibu proves five things. The transcript, widely circulated in the media, read thus: “I am Leah Sharibu, the girl that was abducted in GGSS Dapchi. I am calling on the government and people of goodwill to intervene to get me out of my […]Continue Reading

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Thank you all; Thank you Lord

By The Insight Team August 27, 2018 758 Post a comment

As the castle of Journalism where I had been secure for two decades crashed earlier this year into bricks and rubble, exposing my life to whirlwind, tornado and tsunami, my inner eyes did not foresee another sunrise, not a sunrise on Sunday, August 26, 2018, my birthday. I could not imagine a sunrise in a […]Continue Reading

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2019: APC Alerts Nigerians on Arms Seizure Over Elections

By The Insight Team August 26, 2018 1009

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over arms build up in the country following the interception of Nigeria-bound arms in South Africa. A statement today by its spokesman, Mr Yekini Nabena, said the arms seizure was a red flag for security agencies to be very vigilant as the country approaches the next […]Continue Reading

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Sadly, terror attacks leave over 600 dead

By The Insight Team August 22, 2018 761

… In Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan… Terrorist organisations that harbour anti-establishment, anti-West, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic ideologies have stepped up their attacks, recording sinful successes and forcing back the hand of the clock where successes seemed to have been recorded in the last few years. In Nigeria, for instance, there have been more than five Continue Reading

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20 Strategies of Boko Haram, other terror groups

By The Insight Team August 19, 2018 852

The United Nations Security Council report on the state of terrorist groups in the Levant (Syria and Iraq), Middle East, Europe, Africa, South-East Asia, Central and South Asia elicited diverse reactions in Nigeria. Prominence was given to the speculation that the Federal Government parted with huge sums as ransom to secure the release of 105 […]Continue Reading

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17 election matters pending on Buhari’s desk

By The Insight Team August 10, 2018 736

Many innovative issues dealt with by the National Assembly in the Electoral Act No.6 2010 (Amendment) Bill 2017 may not feature in the 2019 general elections as President Muhammadu Buhari has kept the bill in abeyance since April 2018. Senate President Bukola Saraki alluded to the delay in signing the bill into law in the […]Continue Reading

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7 reasons why the DSS is powerful

By The Insight Team August 8, 2018 2201

The sacked Director-General of the Department of State Security Lawal Daura cut the image of an all-powerful, obstinate and beyond-the-law official who could defy the president, the legislature and the judiciary. That was until Acting President Yemi Osinbajo gave him the boot which forced him to fall belly up on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. There […]Continue Reading

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Defections: Saraki, Dogara hang on the edge of the precipice

By The Insight Team August 6, 2018 741

Senate President Bukola Saraki has to work hard to retain his seat against the fury of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently should not deal a fatal blow to his political career. Also, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, will be hitting his […]Continue Reading

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Investigation: 2019 is not the year for the #Not Too Young to Run

By The Insight Team August 4, 2018 1139

In spite of the groundswell on agitations for an amendment to the 1999 constitution to lower the age bar to enable young Nigerians to scale it and contest the presidency, only 9 out of about 40 aspirants that have shown interest in the top are below the age of 40. President Muhammadu Buhari, on June […]Continue Reading

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100 Dangerous ‘Pastors’

By The Insight Team August 4, 2018 1313

In February, a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Port Harcourt remanded in prison custody one Pastor Chidebere Okoroafor, who claimed to be the founder of the Altar of Solution Church. His offence? The so-called man of God was alleged to have killed a 25-year- old pregnant woman and two others. Shamefully, the man 32-year-old ‘pastor’ […]Continue Reading

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Nigerian presidency can’t be bought with money – Makarfi

By The Insight Team July 7, 2018 800

Senator Ahmed Makarfi is a former governor of Kaduna State, who also served as the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and now one of the over 12 presidential aspirants of the party. In this interview, the two-term senator speaks on issues surrounding his party’s presidential ticket, his chances […]Continue Reading