There is a correlation between responsible political representation and prosperity of the represented all over the world. Put succinctly, the development of a people in any modern day democratic governance is a function of how well the people’s elected representative ...
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Feed SubscriptionStrengthening The Media For Just and Inclusive Societies By Patrick Albert
Today, we gladly join our colleagues, nay the entire global media community to mark the World Press Freedom Day as profoundly promoted by the United Nations (UN) through its agency, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In ...
Read More »Merchants of Mischief By Joe Etokudor
They think they have it all – Money, Power, Guile, Charisma wits. And they even score high on the intelligent quotient scale. But it is always with a touch of evil, sly as a serpent, each fits the fiction writer’s ...
Read More »Nigeria: From Barbarism to Degeneration? By Joe Etokudor
We, the Government and people of Nigeria should stop pretending that we have no serious problems affecting our corporate co-existence as a nation. I understand there are over 250 ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. This writer happens to come from a ...
Read More »Crises in Journalism Practice By Joe Etokudor
The media have been known as one watch dog that is always in danger of becoming all dog and no watching. Left to do as it pleases and it will snooze off in some corner and foul up the air ...
Read More »The Akwa Ibom State of My Dream By Joe Etokudor
Like Christmas which comes once in every year, the ritual of September 23, a day of the year, when Nigerians of the south- southern bloc roll out the drums in ecstasy over the advent of their socio-political identify as a ...
Read More »CO-OPTING RURAL DWELLERS INTO ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION EXERCISE THROUGH TRADITIONAL MEDIA BY AKANINYENE OTON
The problem of environmental sanitation and man’s attempt to solve it dates back to man’s consciousness of the need for a hygienic and healthy co-existence. Environmental sanitation is as old as the history of man’s existence and effort at finding ...
Read More »Roads decay and south east governors By Omotayo Yusuf
The Igbo spirit A story has been told of how before 1966, an Igbo National Leader needed to pay in a particular amount of money into an account in the then African Continental Bank, ACB, before a given date, or ...
Read More »Southern Nigeria – A Victim of Circumstance By Joe Etokudor
When Kalu Okpi, a novelist in his book – Biafra testament” made a statement that – “there are sights one sees only once in a lifetime and only once is enough for ever,” he was sounding a note of caution ...
Read More »Letter to My Fellow Akwa Ibomites By Joe Etokudor
My dear Akwa Ibomites, it is with great sense of responsibility and patriotism that I have decided to address you in my maiden letter on the issues I consider germane to the socio-economic transformation of the state from the proverbial ...
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