If you are from Abia State, you are likely familiar with and love Ofe Ukazi. You eat it with or without achara. It is a delicacy common to the major subgroups in the state. However, you will need help finding Ofe Ukazi on request in the hotels, restaurants, or fast-food joints in Umuahia, the state capital, or Aba, the commercial …

Ondo is one of Nigeria’s most enlightened states. It is, perhaps, side-by-side with Oyo, one of the most significant political bellwethers of the South-West. Apart from Olusegun Agagu’s four-year spell as governor, that state has maintained its progressive credentials in the last 24 years. But that illustrious tradition has fallen on bad times. And you know this when the opposition …

If I remember correctly, in all my years as a brands and communications journalist, the only story I dwelt on for a long period was that between Prima Garnet on the one hand; and Guinness Nigeria Plc, Scan Group, and its promoter, Bharat Thakrar and Airtel Nigeria, on the other. I stayed quite long on the story because I felt …

Nigeria, as I have often said, is a country of one scandal, one minute. Before you have settled down to digest one, another happens! So, you hurriedly sweep the previous one under the carpets to have enough room for the latest! Our carpets, thus, are bulging, threatening to burst any time-t, as they say, at the seams! The latest controversy …

A brand was in the news recently, struggling to put out fires. The company had had a young lady arrested for what it perceived as an unacceptable online review. The action led to a lot of backlash on social media, some offline. The only thing I remember thinking was that I wish the firm had a functional public relations department …

Prayer is communication with the supernatural and spiritual realms, depending on which positive or negative realms of God Almighty or Satan you occupy here in the natural physical world. Those who worship Satan and his fallen angels called gods and goddesses communicate with these fallen angels in the supernatural realm via prayers such as using candles, incenses, animal sacrifices, astrological …

Dapo Olugbodi is the Chief Executive Officer of Arrowshot Care Solutions, a pacesetter in the care sector. He speaks on the need to secure professional services for the aged, and maintaining the highest standards in the sector The edge of Arrowshot Care solutions The edge is what we call the ACS – PICKACS. We have a strong focus on P …

His Excellency Sir, I write to commend you on your activities of drawing attention to the country in your quest to revive the economic challenges. In the line with what you are doing, I want to draw your attention to the National Advertising Conference scheduled to hold between 7th and 8th December 2023 with the theme, ‘Marketing Communication as an …

The number of delegates from Nigeria attending the ongoing Climate Summit in Dubai (otherwise called COP28) has generated a lot of controversies and strong social media conversations in the last 24 hours. It is important to set the record straight and provide some clarity. To begin with, the summit is tagged COP, which means Convention of Parties. The ongoing summit …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo loves to hug the limelight. I was expecting him to write one of the damning  letters he is noted for to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu but he diverted his grouse to democracy. I still expect him to write to Tinubu sooner or later. Penultimate week he came down heavily on democracy, magisterially returning the verdict that …