By Tonnie Iredia In times of crisis, all groups in society are encouraged to come up with what they understand to be the contentious issues at stake. The expectation is that an aggregation of all suchtouchy issues raised by different groups might help to set an agenda for dialogue which is always the best strategy […]

It is certainly not a coincidence that communities which have been unable to recognize the centrality of communication in the process of human development are those that are yet to develop. The United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO, saw this long ago when she declared the 1970s as the ‘Communication Decade.’ It did not […]

By Tonnie Iredia The level of violence in Nigeria today is no doubt mind boggling. How they happen intermittently but seamlessly have become puzzling. While some analysts have used the insurgency in the North-East to explain the level of violence in that region, the continuing destruction of public facilities especially in the South-East has not […]

By Tonnie Iredia To a lay person, the term ‘theory’ sounds technical but in reality it simply refers to the idea of giving a title or name to an observable phenomenon for the purpose of explaining the relationships between concepts. More pointedly, theory allows people to explain what they see and to figure out how […]

By Tonnie Iredia Last Thursday, I was slightly amused listening to Senate President, Ahmed Lawan pouring encomiums on the service chiefs of Nigeria’s military. When the report by the broadcast media on the event started playing, I had thought it was a valedictory session where some war veterans were taking a well-deserved bow. But when […]