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$3.3bn Abacha Loot: Between Obasanjo, Jonathan and Buhari

By The Insight Team September 21, 2018 268 0

In the last 20 years, the Federal Government has recovered $3.3 billion from countries where former Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha, stashed the country’s proceeds from oil sales. The recovery hits N1.2 trillion when converted to our local currency, an amount, going by the 2018 budget is enough to fund critical agencies […]Continue Reading

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10 Areas to Monitor Boko Haram in 2019 Politics

By The Insight Team September 18, 2018 245 0

BokoHaram terrorists have become very daring, capturing communities in Gudunbali Local Government Area , attacking a military base in Baga, Kukawa LGA and even occupying Damasak in Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno state. Though the military has recaptured these locations from the sect, the death toll in these attacks is not known. The sect’s […]Continue Reading

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Now, every Nigerian owes China over N15,000

By The Insight Team September 3, 2018 267 0

Every Nigerian owes China about N15,000 at the moment in goodwill and in debt, considering the quantum of Chinese aid for development, welfare and loans in the last few years. As at 2014, Nigeria was the sixth country on the list of third world countries that had received aid from China. It received the sum […]Continue Reading

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Tema Refinery: City of Pipes, Tanks and Towers

By The Insight Team September 1, 2018 401 0

  With youthful anxiety for the Friday excursion to Accra’s Tema Oil Refinery, I struggled out of sleep at a very odd hour. I woke up at the dark and unholy hour of 2.00am when human beings were at rest but the spirit world active with unrest. Strangely, I felt struck with an inexplicable nausea […]Continue Reading

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But the “President” is mentioned 22 times in the Petroleum Bill

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 348 0

The return of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill 2018, harmonized by the Senate and House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday coincided with a session on extractive sector (mining, oil and gas) legal framework that we were taken through in Accra, Ghana on the same day. Organised by the […]Continue Reading

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

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 398 0

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 357 0

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 254 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 396 0

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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10 national issues being lost to 2019 power noise

By The Insight Team August 25, 2018 298 0

The next general election is six months away. Not, government seems to have surrendered its duties to the noise of the power riddle, abandoning many issues of national importance. Below is a list of some of such issues that federal and state governments have relegated to the background in their anxiety to secure ‘the people’s […]Continue Reading

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20 Strategies of Boko Haram, other terror groups

By The Insight Team August 19, 2018 342 0

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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9 Celebrities who have spoken out about being photoshopped

By The Insight Team July 25, 2017 193 0

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