Fact Check Features Investigations Media Opinions Top Story

Historic perspective on the pardon of Alli and Enahoro

By The Insight Team September 22, 2020 276 0

By Eric Teniola The presidential pardon granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to former Nationalist and Minister, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro (1923-2010), and also to Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli (1929-1989), former Governor of the defunct Bendel state and endorsed by the National Council of State is most welcome. I hope the pardon will be extended […]Continue Reading

Fact Check Features Interviews Investigations Media Opinions Top Story

State Theft, Cronyism and Civil Right Violations: Inside the Hidden Horrors of the CAMA 2020 Bill

By The Insight Team August 28, 2020 270 Post a comment

By David Hundeyin Imagine you woke up from a bad dream yesterday, only to find out that you are in another bad dream today. Then you wake up from it tomorrow, only to find yourself in another bad dream, which gives way to yet another nightmare and so on in that manner, like an everlasting […]Continue Reading

Book Review Fact Check Features Health Interviews Investigations Media Opinions Terrorism Monitor Top Story

‘How media abandoned IDPs’

By The Insight Team August 27, 2020 294 0

(A review of ‘Managing Internal Displacement Crisis in Nigeria’)   By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Introduction: An African proverb says ‘pregnancy can never be hidden with bare hands.’ Springing from the imagery and significance of this proverb, and in the context of internal displacements in Nigeria, one could say it corresponds with the society’s attitude to this […]Continue Reading

Fact Check Features Interviews Investigations Media Opinions Top Story

‘The states are dying’

By The Insight Team August 19, 2020 286 0

By Eric Teniola There is a hardly a day that goes by now, that we don’t read in the media of billions of naira being stolen by an agency in the central government. The whole thing is sickening. The rate at which money is being stolen in the central government has become like a curse. […]Continue Reading

Features Interviews Media Opinions Terrorism Monitor Top Story

Boko Haram, Zulum’s eruptions and classified outbursts

By The Insight Team August 14, 2020 266 0

By Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it” That was Jack Nicholson when he starred as Col Nathan R Jessep in […]Continue Reading

Features Opinions Top Story

One by one those senators are departing

By The Insight Team August 10, 2020 352 0

By Eric Teniola With the passage of Senator Ayomide Fasanmi (September 27, 1925 to July 29, 2020) the number of the ninety-five Senators, who served between October 1979 to October 1983, still alive has been reduced. I covered that Senate until Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), GCFR, terminated democracy in Nigeria on December 31st, 1983. […]Continue Reading

Business Fact Check Features Investigations Top Story

How Panel exonerated AfDB President Adesina

By The Insight Team July 28, 2020 245 0

A panel of high-level independent experts reviewed the report of the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank and the Response of President, Akinwumi Adesina. The Independent Review Panel exonerated the President of the African Development Bank in a report. Below are some of the findings of the report: On non –respect of internal rules […]Continue Reading

Fact Check Features Investigations Terrorism Monitor Top Story

ISS: New insights into how communities resist Boko Haram

By The Insight Team July 27, 2020 278 0

By Akinola Olojo, Senior Researcher, ISS Communities affected by violent extremism are frequently considered to have risk factors linked to socio-economic deprivation, bad governance, and religious radicalization. These factors prevail across the whole of northern Nigeria, and in the north-eastern Bauchi and Gombe states. However, despite Boko Haram’s factions being active Continue Reading

Features Opinions Top Story

Reorganising Nigeria’s Left Politics

By The Insight Team July 23, 2020 242 0

By Edwin Madunagu There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics on the other. That contradiction can be stated like this: Nigerian Leftists have always hoped to found […]Continue Reading

Features Interviews Terrorism Monitor Top Story

Aid workers’ execution: Zulum deeply pained, sends delegation to families

By The Insight Team July 23, 2020 226 0

…Says victims died as heroes Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is deeply pained by insurgents’ execution of aid workers whom he described as heroes that were gruesomely killed in the course of serving humanity. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in a statement released Thursday morning, that the Governor was informed of the execution on […]Continue Reading

Features Health Interviews Top Story

In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By The Insight Team July 17, 2020 279 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

Features Opinions Top Story

The Cost of Destroying Ibrahim Magu

By The Insight Team July 16, 2020 238 0

By Muni Williams On Monday, July 6, 2020, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, a police commissioner, was finally arrested on the streets of Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria. He was said to have been bundled unprepared to face an administrative panel of inquiry headed by a […]Continue Reading