Two high-powered meetings within a space of eight days by the prime political opposition the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is signal to the urgency with which the party intends to rediscover itself. After 16 years at the helm in governance, the PDP has been the odd outsider in the nation’s politics into the ninth year now. If it was a …

It was the immortal Winston Churchill who once described democracy as the worst form of government except all other governments that have been tried and discarded in the past. The truism is obvious. It accentuates the Lincolnian classical definition of democracy. Despite its flaws , democracy offers the best hope of man in a conflicted world. It gives room for free expression, …

That Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) on a Sunday could promptly respond to the “controversy” about training of judges  in London is a sign of a responsive Bola Tinubu-led new administration in Nigeria. However, it is a woeful attempt by the NJC to persuade millions of hurting Nigerians who are going through hardships meted out to them by previous leadership failures. …

Hunger is widespread and chronic in Nigeria, and its prevalence is one phenomenon that statistics cannot fully capture; not even the global hunger index does justice to it. Statistics deals with numbers, but hunger deals with humans. Relying on quantitative data alone to assess the state of hunger in Nigeria is the worst mistake anybody could make. Quantitative data and …

A “wind of change” is blowing across Africa but this time around, it is not the same wind of change that erstwhile British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, spoke about – the positive wind of change blowing away colonial rule and ushering in Independence to the African colonies of Britain. Macmillan made his famous speech to the parliament of apartheid South …

Sylvanus Ukafia, a medical doctor and a pastor, has fun memories of his first encounter with Ray Ekpu. His father, the late Owen Ukafia, an accomplished journalist in his own right, worked at the once bubbling Nigerian Chronicle in Calabar, where Ekpu started his journalism career. The senior Ukafia kept feeding his son daily with juicy stories of excellent journalism exemplified …

In two days, the seventh month of the year would disappear into the history books. We therefore use these brief moments of remembrance to escalate and celebrate the exploits and impact of only a few of the marvelous characters we have had the pleasure of interacting with fairly closely, and could attest to their industry, humanity and, more often than …

It is the eighth month of the year. The historically inclined will most probably remember that 33 years ago this August, leaders of the 15 countries which make West Africa took the bold initiative to poll combatants and resources together to rescue one brother nation specifically from the throes of internecine unrest. It was an agglomeration of Anglophone, Francophone and …

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Introduction I was at a conference for public relations professionals recently. It was well-attended by practitioners from different countries, mostly from Africa. We discussed issues about the future of the profession and practice. During the conversation that followed a presentation on influencer marketing, a delegate implied that social media influencers are a threat to PR practice. In other words, they …