Managing crisis communication in the digital age
Responding immediately can certainly be useful, but responding when you do not yet understand the facts can be extremely costly.
Tackling the scourge of air pollution in Nigeria
AIR is an important and vital requirement for life. Air sustains life, but it can also snuff out life. With air one survives and lives; with air one could also die. So it all boils down to the quality of that air.
Dear C-in-C, why we still need Lt Gen TY Buratai
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” Winston Churchill I am writing this piece, not on the strength of ethnicity or religion, but a firm conviction of the true Nigerian spirit. As an officer of the Nigerian Army and from the South Eastern […]
Governorship as Igali’s second missionary journey
The race to Bayelsa State Government House at the Creek Haven in Yenagoa has begun, symptomatic of another ritual of installing a new governor. It also has a signification: it is a time to interrogate the antecedents of aspirants/candidates and to convey political promises to both the electorate and the citizenry in a usually aggressive and blistering electioneering. By the means of political intellection and communication, people’s hope for good governance is always raised; but, subsequently, almost consistently shattered and battered both in comparative and relative terms as it has been the lot of successive administrations in the state.
A prayer for Chief of Staff, ‘General’ Abba Kyari
One of the key challenges of governance in Nigeria and the rest of Africa has been the failure of different agencies of government to operate with cohesion. Since the return to democracy in 1999, the Nigerian public sector has appeared to Nigerians as a visionless conglomerate with disparate units and organs working at cross purposes. It is often widely considered to be peopled by individuals that have only one goal: “grab as much of the national cake as possible.”
Politics of Escapism: Why Igbos should adopt broad strategy in Nigerian politics
The entrepreneurial spirit of an Igbo person is next to none. They are known for leaving their enclaves in the South East, Nigeria, migrating to Lagos, different parts of Nigeria and all over the world in search of greener pastures and returning to their villages in ONE YEAR with automobiles and wealth. I am not exaggerating; most actually make it in such a very short interval. Sui generis to the Igbo people, it is the dream of every one of them who leaves their ancestral homes in the South East to go abroad.
