By Dr. Oyewole Sarumi “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before” – Rahm Emanuel This is just a musing from …
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Nigeria has always been an interesting case. It’s the richly endowed country that is also home to some of the world’s poorest. It is where sprawling mansions exist in close proximity to slums. For some unexplainable reason, we have struggled …
You can be forgiven if you think the present administration’s failure with regards to its communication began only last Monday with that embarrassing leak of the President’s national address. True, there was substantial goodwill when that famous victory was won …
This year’s Big Brother Nigeria made the headlines but mostly for all the wrong reasons. Except for the purists though, it probably was a record-breaking performance for the organisers of the reality show that continues to divide opinion in equal …
I had just received through the kind consideration of a Nigerian academic based in South Africa, a report on the state of South African research and was busy with it when the British Broadcasting Corporation. (BBC) aired its report on …
Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, and Chris Paterson, University of Leeds An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa annually is for media development. Foreign aid funds diverse projects, …
When Olamide shocked live and watching audiences with his rant at the 2015 Headies Award by boasting, ‘street ti take over,’ he very well may have been speaking to the emerging trend of digital hate mobs. Some recent events and …
For the second time in less than two months, Nigerian journalists are at the centre of a needless and embarrassing controversy. Some of the reactions to the appointment of a Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President of …
President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments at 13th Convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, early last month was spot on, not because they revealed something we don’t already know but because they exposed Nigeria’s inadequacies in a profoundly …
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes something new to remind you that Nigeria is one exciting and complex place where anything can happen. Or how else does one make sense of that viral video of Success …
