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Afrophobia: The lies, data and undercurrent

By The Insight Team September 12, 2019 1048

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az pin up pin up az mostbet pin up mostbet mostbet Outrage spread with fire and blood across Africa as the demon of xenophobia took control of the mind and conscience of hundreds of South African youths. Thirsty for blood and destruction, they struck their African brothers to death, looted the fruits of their victims’ labour, burned down the remnant of their hard work, and cursed […]Continue Reading

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The Road-block Tragedy in Taraba

By The Insight Team August 14, 2019 870

By Danladi Andetu For the umpteenth time, the Nigeria Army is in the news over allegations of crime and unpatriotic conduct of some of its members. And for the umpteenth time also, Taraba State is at the receiving end of this perfidy that has become the trademark of military operations in the country, particularly in […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank CEO visits Cross Rivers Governor

By The Insight Team August 13, 2019 836

Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu; Executive Governor, Cross River State, His Excellency Prof. Ben Ayade and Executive Director, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Dennis Olisa during the bank’s visit to the Governor to further infrastructural development partnership with the State Government at the weekend.Continue Reading

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Clinics with nothing : How millions meant for the sick are never spent

By The Insight Team August 10, 2019 972

Healthcare in Nigeria is incredibly complicated. Large budgets are trapped on different government levels, only accessible to those who know how to work the system. The Primary Healthcare Centre in Ugbamaka-Igah village in Kogi State, Nigeria, is overgrown with grasses. The labour and patient wards as well as the other rooms of the clinic are […]Continue Reading

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5 Questions for Army over killing of police operatives

By The Insight Team August 9, 2019 1137

The word ‘waste’ erupts in the mind as one imagines the unnecessary killing of three elite police officers in Taraba State this week. As an evidence of the lack of cooperation among security agencies fighting terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery and communal violence, army personnel were those involved in the senseless shooting. In the last one […]Continue Reading

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As Audu Ogbeh Takes the Back Seat

By The Insight Team August 9, 2019 1146 Post a comment

By Eric Teniola When President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, submitted his list of Ministers to the Senate on July 23, the name of Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh (72) was missing. He was one of the few ministers who was not re-nominated by the President. And this led to a conclusion that, perhaps, the public service career […]Continue Reading

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Sowore, DSS and language of ‘revolution’

By The Insight Team August 5, 2019 777

At the centre of Department of State Security (DSS’) arrest of Mr. Omowole Sowore at the weekend over the protest #RevolutionNow is the meaning of the noun ‘Revolution.’ Erudite spokesman of DSS, Peter Afunanya, justified the security agency’s ‘preventive measure’ by not just defining ‘revolution,’ but provided extended meaning of the word to include: “… […]Continue Reading

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Vultures of steel: Ajaokuta where corruption is the system

By The Insight Team July 13, 2019 1437

Theophilus Abbah If corruption was an issue of the presence of individual ‘rotten apples’ in the state, it would suffice to arrest such individuals to cleanse the system. That it is not so proves the story of the steel plant of Ajaokuta, Nigeria, where corruption has been the system for decades. With a new legislature […]Continue Reading

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Federalism, local government autonomy and the crisis of identity in Nigeria

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 998

By Austin Emaduku Local government councils, counties, prefectures, cities, boroughs, municipalities, etc., the world over, are regarded as vehicles of grassroots development because of their closeness to the people. It is for this reason that it is often argued that they be granted enough financial strength and space to operate. However, the question of municipal […]Continue Reading

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Their African way: The business associates who help the kleptocrats (Transnational Investigation)

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 853

By African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM team: David Dembélé (Mali), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Charles Mafa and John Mukela (Zambia), T. Kaiwonda Gaye* (Liberia), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), Purity Mukami with Africa Uncensored, Kenya “You must be very careful,” says the lawyer over the phone to the local reporter. “This is a dark and sensitive dossier. Continue Reading

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Dapsy: father of modern investigative journalism in Nigeria

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 1425

Title: Testimony to Courage: Essays in Honour of Dapo Olorunyomi Editors: Chido Onumah and Frederick Adetiba Publishers: Kappa and Omega Company, Abuja Pages: 404 Reviewer: Theophilus Abbah, PhD It has been sluggish strides, like baby-steps. That is the journey of newspapering in Nigeria from being a church bulletin, established in 1859 by Reverend Henry Townsend, […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram in Buhari’s speeches in 2015 and 2019 [Data and content analysis]

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 852 Post a comment

Presidential inaugural speeches give heads of states with a periodic opportunity to renew their social contract with their people. Carefully crafted and pored upon for, perhaps, weeks before their delivery, such political rhetoric are expected to leave sweet tastes in the mouth of their audience. Quotable quotes, take-away promises, renewal of hope, paradigm shifts and Continue Reading