By CHIDO ONUMAH A decade and half ago, a global historic event took place in Bangkok, the picturesque capital city of Thailand. UNESCO convened an Expert Meeting on “Towards Media and Information Literacy Indicators,” from November 4-6, 2010, bringing together international experts to develop common indicators for measuring Media and Information Literacy (MIL). The meeting had […]

“I left them doing the crying for me and I started strategizing because blindness cannot and will not stop me”

By Jackson Rivers For decades, the people of Ugborodo, a coastal host community in Warri Kingdom, have lived side by side with one of Nigeria’s most strategic oil and gas operations. Their land hosts critical offshore and onshore facilities supporting Chevron Nigeria Limited’s (CNL) operations at Escravos. Yet, in the midst of this enormous contribution […]

By MOHAMMED DAHIRU Recently, a global spike in the narrative surrounding Nigeria’s complex security situation took a dangerous label that aroused outrage, concern, and curiosity on the one hand and downplayed the plight of other victims of insecurity on the other. This created a situation that enabled a dangerously divisive rhetoric that further polarised the country’s […]

When the wealthiest African in the world publicly turns his fire on a Nigerian civil servant and head of a regulating agency, it is never just a personal dispute