Beyond Giving: How companies can use corporate philanthropy to build stronger, self-sustaining communities
By Sam Ogbemi Daibo For decades, the relationship between companies and their host communities in Nigeria has largely been defined by projects. A company builds a classroom, renovates a health centre, provides boreholes, awards scholarships or rehabilitates a road. These interventions can be valuable. They meet real needs and often improve lives. But after decades […]
The Joseph Goebbels in government spokespersons
By Jerome-Mario Utomi IN 1978, Public Relations professionals across the globe gathered in Mexico to, among other aims chart a course, and stir the ship of public relations practice. The gathering proposed and adopted a highly influential definition of public relations which it tagged; The Mexican statement. It says: “Public relations practice is the art and […]
Senate passes Finance Bill 2020
The Senate on Tuesday passed the Finance Bill 2020, transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari on Nov. 25 for consideration. The bill, which has 77 clauses was passed following adoption of the report of Senate Joint Committee on Finance, Customs, Excise and Tariff, Trade and Investment and Public Procurement at the Committee of the Whole. Chairman […]
Tantrums of little men
By Professor Akitoye-Rhodes In a desperate, vicious piece of journalistic trash, one Ayobami Olu-Peters , apparently working for his not so veiled masters, cooked up all kinds of childish, unverifiable balderdash in a failed attempt to rub odium on the person of Chief Olabode George. From the title which will not be dignified with […]
Could the invisible enemy be at the door again?
By Magnus Onyibe At a point, the second wave of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic seemed so farfetched. But with the number of cases of covid-19 pandemic carriers ramping up as reflected by the increase in the count of people testing positive for a disease that was thought to be on its way out, Coronavirus has once […]
INFRADIG – A presidential comeuppance by Wole Soyinka
Once, the word featured prominently in the repertory of Nigerian shorthand diction. Indeed, I grew up thinking that it was only one word, not two, and assumed also that it was English, not Latin: infra dignitatem! I joined others in applying the shorthand to any situation where I felt that my dignity was assailed, that […]
