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Uproar as FG plans to handover $100m Abacha loot to Bagudu

By The Insight Team February 24, 2020 295 0

There was a general feeling of indignation across the country yesterday over a report of alleged attempts by the federal government to hand over about $100 million United States authorities say was stolen by a former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Bagudu, a top member of the ruling All […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank Posts N200billion Profit

By The Insight Team February 21, 2020 234 0

In a clear show of its resilience and market leadership, Zenith Bank has announced an impressive result for the year ended December 31, 2019, with profit after tax (PAT) of N208.8 billion, achieving the feat as the first Nigerian Bank to cross the N200 billion mark. According to the bank’s audited financial results for the […]Continue Reading

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CAN to Buhari: Fulfil Promise on release of Leah Sharibu, Chibok girls.

By The Insight Team February 19, 2020 228 0

The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make good on his promise to ensure the release of Leah Sharibu and the Chibok girls who were captured on February 19, 2018. The call was made in a statement signed by Evangelist Kwamkur Samuel Vondip, Director, Legal and Public Affairs, CAN on […]Continue Reading

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Insecurity: People must be sacked for failure — Lawan

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 255 0

Senate President Ahmad Lawan says those employed for the nation’s security must be given targets and that they should be sacked if they do not meet the targets. Lawan spoke at plenary yesterday after the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Senator Kashim Shettima (Borno) urging the military authorities to establish a […]Continue Reading

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Bandits, kidnappers hiding at national parks — Senate

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 245 0

The Senate has raised the alarm that national parks across the country have become safe havens for bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers. According to the Senate, the criminals come out to attack and return back there for safety. It called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the nation’s security architecture in line […]Continue Reading

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The Imbalance in NDDC as it Affects Imo and Ondo States

By The Insight Team February 13, 2020 252 0

By Eric Teniola Since 2000 every President in Nigeria has been unfair to Ondo and Imo states in terms of appointments of chairman/Managing Director/Executive Director in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). It does not matter the quantum of oil produced in those two states as long as they are still members of the NNDC, […]Continue Reading

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Why Nigeria has failed to achieve greatness – Kukah

By The Insight Team February 5, 2020 289 0

By Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Foundations once destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps. 11: 3) Let me first congratulate Dr. Bode Ayorinde, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of this august University and thank you immensely for the honour of being invited to give the Convocation Lecture and to also receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree […]Continue Reading

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Inside Nigeria’s Failed Vision 2020

By The Insight Team January 3, 2020 315 Post a comment

Ten years may sound like a blurry, distant future. But built into them are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that provide harbor for infinitesimal opportunities that transform the lives of men and the fortunes of nations. Men and nations who benefit from time are those who employ their imagination in crafting long-term visions […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank CEO visits Cross Rivers Governor

By The Insight Team August 13, 2019 337 0

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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Sowore, DSS and language of ‘revolution’

By The Insight Team August 5, 2019 280 0

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

By The Insight Team June 27, 2019 294 0

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 555 0

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