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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 4: Fighting a deadly disease with ill-motivated forces

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 1068 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az Tea. Yam. Eba. Beans. Bread. Food, food, food. Eat. Eat. Eat. I’ve begun to feel guilty, like I felt as a boy, and being fed by my mother. I tell this story to my children to discourage them from yielding to the snare of gluttony. On many occasions, my mother would whip me with her […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My lockdown diary] Day 1: A ghostly spectacle after unusual Sunday worship

By The Insight Team March 31, 2020 894 0

By Theophilus Abbah President Muhammadu Buhari’s much-delayed and anxiously-awaited authoritative speech on Covid-19, delivered on Sunday, March 29, locked down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun from Monday, March 30. That’s for millions who wake up at sunrise and retire to bed at sunset in these cities. But as for me and the multitude to whom the […]Continue Reading

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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 896 0

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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10 Main Points in Buhari’s Covid-19 Speech

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 944 0

Whole instrument of government mobilized to tackle pandemic Covid-19 has no cure to date Three preventive measures are (i) regular hygiene (ii) sanitary practice (iii) social distancing N15 billion set aside as response Citizens in Lagos, FCT and Ogun should stay at home Air travels suspended Relief materials for satellite towns in Lagos and Abuja […]Continue Reading

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NIGERIA: WHAT TIME IS IT?

By The Insight Team March 25, 2020 1160 0

Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Bishop, Sokoto Diocese 10th Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Convocation Lecture,  20th March 2020   Pressure from the VC made me hurriedly come up with a title as strange as this! However, it is a title that gives rise to many thoughts, particularly so as we look at our world, and more […]Continue Reading

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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 896 0

  ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank fetes shareholders with dividend payout of N87.9 billion

By The Insight Team March 17, 2020 1035 0

Shareholders of Zenith Bank Plc, on Monday, at the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Bank held at the Shehu Musa Yaradua Centre, Abuja unanimously approved the proposed final dividend of N2.50 per share, bringing the total dividend payment for the 2019 financial year to N2.80 per share with a total value of N87.9 billion. […]Continue Reading

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Much ado about National Security Adviser

By The Insight Team March 12, 2020 967 0

By Eric Teniola General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the 7th Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s economy is not working – Dangote

By The Insight Team March 12, 2020 782 0

…says his firms lost N30bn profit to Apapa gridlock Business mogul and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday gave a poignant verdict on efforts by successive governments to transform the nation’s economy, saying that Nigeria’s economy is not working. This is as even as he said Nigeria’s economic diversification programme Continue Reading

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Peace Journalism: A Tool to Fighting Boko Haram Insurgents in the Northeast Nigeria

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 832 0

By Aondover Eric Msughter There is no doubt that the media have the capacity and moral obligation to create awareness and educate citizen about the counter and prevent act of terrorism by making them approachable enough so that every citizen can approach them with their suggestions about how to create a terrorism-free world. In reporting […]Continue Reading

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Damboa Attack: Zulum Hails Military for Decisive Blow on Boko Haram

By The Insight Team March 5, 2020 803 0

 … Scores of insurgents killed,19 fighter vehicles seized … ‘Taking the war to fleeing insurgents impressive’ Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even Continue Reading

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Insecurity in Nigeria: What can the Left do?

By The Insight Team March 4, 2020 760 0

By Edwin Madunagu Reflections on the current “insecurity” and “threatening state failure” in Nigeria – and what the Nigerian Left can do – recently led me, in a tortuous manner, back to a formulation on revolutionary intervention which I thought I had transcended long ago. We shall first discuss the formulation and then come to Continue Reading