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Africans in Diaspora condemn Trump’s interference in AfDB’s leadership

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 798 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az The African Diaspora Congress (ADC) has condemned, in strong terms, the meddling of the United States of America in the leadership of the African Development Bank under President Akinwumi Adesina. In a statement signed by the Secretary General of ADC, Prof Apollos O Nwauwa, and the Public Relations Officer, Dr Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, the association said […]Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 778 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By The Insight Team May 12, 2020 11758 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By The Insight Team May 8, 2020 723 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari, on April 27, 2020 ordered the ease of lockdown in three major high-infection states in the country. The three states, Lagos, FCT, and Ogun, had been on lockdown since March 30. This decision was as a result of the impact the lockdown had on the economy. In his […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: “The media is on the frontlines”, by Eugenia Abu 

By The Insight Team April 25, 2020 703 0

For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The […]Continue Reading

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

By The Insight Team April 24, 2020 899 0

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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Malam Abba Kyari: a brother, friend and patriot, by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 1038 0

I have been in shock, since news broke, of the passing of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late on Friday night, the 17th of April, that it has been difficult for me, to concentrate on literally any other thought, except the incredible life that Mal Abba lived, and the gravity of […]Continue Reading

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Re-introducing “The Lugano Report” by Edwin Madunagu

By The Insight Team April 22, 2020 714 0

Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the Pluto Press, London, released a book with the title: “The Lugano Report” and subtitle, “On preserving capitalism in the 21st century”. The author, Susan George, who shares this name with another well-known but much younger woman, was born Continue Reading

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The present and the past flu by Eric Teniola

By The Insight Team April 10, 2020 730 0

The Coronavirus is a negative scientific invention. Until proved otherwise, the virus called SARS-COV-2 was made by scientists and escaped in a laboratory. It is a laboratory construct and a manipulated virus. It is not the product of natural evolution. The sudden and forceful spread of the virus, especially from China to Europe and then […]Continue Reading

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Zenith bank introduces automated voice banking service, Assures customers of best-in-class service at this challenging time

By The Insight Team April 7, 2020 763 Post a comment

Zenith Bank Plc has introduced an automated voice banking service, an interactive voice response (IVR) solution which enables customers to perform basic banking transactions by dialing a dedicated phone line through their registered phone numbers and following the prompts. By simply dialing +234 (1) 278 7000 from the phone number linked to their accounts and […]Continue Reading

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Gbajabiamila to propose bill that will ensure two months free electricity supply

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 824 0

The House of Representatives is to consider a fresh Stimulus Bill that will ensure that Nigerians get free electricity supply for two months to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Speaker Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila said the proposed Bill is to help in boosting the economy through the informal sector as the country prepares for […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s unhealthy healthcare in the eye of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 831 0

By Runcie C.W. Chidebe Coronavirus (COVID-19) is here to teach us a lesson; I hope we learn. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy. But instead of fixing it our rulers have been busy flying up and down to benefit from other country’s productive health system. With Coronavirus, reality is upon us. No more running overseas for medical […]Continue Reading