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White Smoke Rises: Pope Leo XIV’s Election Signals New Era as Vatican Embraces Tradition, Transformation

By The Insight Team May 10, 2025 104

By Emmanuel Kwada White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney on May 8, 2025, heralding the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American from Chicago, as Pope Leo XIV, the 267th pontiff and the first U.S.-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Nearly 45,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers […]Continue Reading

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WHO Chief urges US to reverse global health aid cuts

By The Insight Team March 17, 2025 161

… says global health crisis looms Emmanuel Kwada The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on the United States to reconsider its recent decision to slash funding for global health initiatives. Speaking at a press conference earlier today, Dr. Tedros warned that a sudden halt to this critical aid […]Continue Reading

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Northwest Nigeria: A Massive Crime Scene, Over 20,000 Lives Lost, Bishop Kukah Calls for Urgent Action

By The Insight Team March 4, 2025 140

By Emmanuel Kwada Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has sounded the alarm on the escalating violence plaguing Northwest Nigeria, urging a unified societal response to a crisis that has claimed over 20,000 lives across 4,500 recorded incidents. Speaking at the Northwest Regional Conference on Women, Peace, and Security held in […]Continue Reading

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Corps Members Disappointed as NYSC Pays N33,000 in February

By The Insight Team March 1, 2025 147

By Emmanuel Kwada National Youth Service Corps members across Nigeria are frustrated after receiving their usual N33,000 allowance for February.  This comes despite repeated assurances from NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, that payments would increase to N77,000 starting in February 2025. The unfulfilled promise, tied to the Federal Government’s new Continue Reading

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40m of land eroded in southern Nigeria annually – Minister

By The Insight Team February 27, 2025 148

By Emmanuel Kwada Southern Nigeria is losing between 30 to 40 meters of land to coastal erosion every year, a crisis that demands urgent intervention, Nigeria’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Geoffrey Nnaji, has warned. The Minister disclosed this in a statement on Thursday by the Director Media and Corporate Communications at […]Continue Reading

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TikTok, YouTube Top the Chart as Nigeria’s Internet Data Consumption Surpasses 1M Terabytes in 2025

By The Insight Team February 24, 2025 366

By Emmanuel Kwada Nigeria marked a monumental shift in its digital landscape as internet data consumption breached the 1-million-terabyte threshold, a feat propelled by the meteoric rise of TikTok and YouTube. According to a TechCabal report citing Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) statistics, January 2025 recorded an eye-popping 1,000,930.6 terabytes of data Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s Cocoa Industry Gains $40.5m Boost

By The Insight Team February 18, 2025 230

…Johnvents targets 100% traceable cocoa with BII partnership.  By Emmanuel Kwada Nigeria’s cocoa industry has received a boost with a $40.5m investment from British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution, in partnership with Johnvents Group. This was disclosed by the Head of Office and Coverage Director, BII, Benson Adenuga on Continue Reading

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Silo maintenance, storage cost Nigeria N2.5bn in 12 months

By The Insight Team February 14, 2025 249

By Emmanuel Kwada The Federal Government of Nigeria spent N2,534,863,003.11 on silo maintenance, storage, and procurement between 2023 and 2024, according to records obtained by The Insight from BudgIT’s accountability platform, GovSpend, on Friday. This sum was allocated to various contractors and service providers across multiple states for the rehabilitation, Continue Reading

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MDAs spent N3.3bn on diesel in five months

By The Insight Team February 14, 2025 322

By Emmanuel Kwada Amidst Nigeria’s lingering power supply challenges, Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of the Federal Government collectively spent over N3.3bn on diesel between July and November 2024 to power their offices, generators, and powerhouses. This is according to records obtained on Friday by The Insight from BudgIT’s accountability platform, Continue Reading

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Kidnapping Epidemic: NYSC Corps Members Bearing the Brunt

By The Insight Team February 7, 2025 330

By Emmanuel Kwada The plight of corps members being kidnapped and murdered has become increasingly perilous across the states in Nigeria, with no place exempted, as the harrowing news greets the air every day, with little or nothing being done about it by the authorities. In a shocking revelation that has sent ripples of fear […]Continue Reading

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Merry Christmas, no matter your cross

By The Insight Team December 25, 2024 178

By Theophilus Abbah Christmas and celebration are two sides of the same coin. At its birth on December 25, 336AD, Christmas festival had emerged from the womb of a Roman tradition of merriment associated with the symbolic renewal of life at winter. Roman Emperor Constantine had envisaged a festival of joy, jubilation, dancing, revelry, wining, […]Continue Reading

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A pilgrimage to Soyinka’s home in Ijesha forest

By The Insight Team December 5, 2024 256

By Theophilus Abbah The two coaster buses that conveyed our team from the charming and luxurious Conference Hotel in Abeokuta sailed and scaled across an overhead bridge, snaked through the noisy Itoku market in Kuto area, famous for merchandize in Yoruba traditional adire. The buses sped up the hill on the dark, glossy, smoothly tarred […]Continue Reading