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Family Planning: FG fails to complete 2019 counterpart fund

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 1041

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet The Federal Government has failed to complete the payment of its counterpart fund for Family Planning activities in the 2019 health budget, investigations have revealed. Family planning is a component of health strategies to encourage child spacing, promote the health of women of child-bearing age, and to reduce financial pressures on households in Nigeria. Since […]Continue Reading

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COVID-19: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?” by Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR

By The Insight Team April 24, 2020 856

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: myths, facts and issues in Africa

By The Insight Team March 13, 2020 917

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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Now, every Nigerian owes China over N15,000

By The Insight Team September 3, 2018 971

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

By The Insight Team August 29, 2018 1071

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