LEVERAGING PR STRATEGIES FOR INSURANCE BROKING PRACTICE.
- Tope Adaramola
It is no longer news that most corporate organizations are increasingly coming to terms with the need to engage Public Relations to gain better positive image and consequently improve their bottom line. Regardless of the nature of products or services rendered, PR has continued to make itself handy and beneficial to those who chose to utilize it in their day to day operation
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IF NIGERIA BREAKS.
- Emmanuel Yawe
My son came to me last Wednesday with the distressing news that he has decided to take his wife and son home. I sought to know why since they just came back from the Christmas and New year holiday. The answer was Boko Haram. His house in the Federal Capital Territory is located between a Mosque and a Church. With the worsening security situation in the country, tension has risen in the neighbourhood between the two faiths
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The African National Congress is 100 years old.
- Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
Recently, the African National Congress celebrated its centenary with pomp and gaieties. Last year, the Communist Party of China also celebrated its centenary. The fine thread running through the political culture of the two parties, is their adoption of Marxian dialectics as the philosophical basis for the quest for mechanisms for socialization of their states.
Both parties engaged in prolonged wars of liberation. The history teacher can tell us the gruesome stories of the effects of the Nanking Treaty of 1842 and the centuries of apartheid rule in South Africa.
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OLUREMI TINUBU: RE-DEFINING REPRESENTATIVE POLITICS
- Tope Adaramola
Senator Tinubu who came to limelight as the First Lady during her husband’s tenure as Governor of Lagos State, is proving skeptics wrong about her understanding of statecraft and dynamics of participatory or representative governance. Obviously latching on her association with her husband- the mercurial politician and icon of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu- Oluremi is also enjoying the rob off effect of the dynamism and vision of party mates and egg heads in the fold of the CAN, to project herself admirably as a national legislator.
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Protests Postmortem: Locating ND and Ndigbo in the Fuel Subsidy Political Ecosystem - Franklin Otorofani
Let's be clear about one thing before revisionists begin to rewrite our recent history in a hurry as it relates to the aborted fuel subsidy protests. The fuel subsidy protests, while indisputably popular as they are bound to be in any society that had been used to such entitlements suddenly withdrawn, were by no means spontaneous, but meticulously pre-planned and executed by vested interests that had been feeding fat on the backs of the people using labor as their battle axe. Labor's action plan had been rehearsed, pre-packaged and put on the shelf to be picked up and implemented nationwide on D-Day, which was long expected as the government had insisted on going ahead with its plan.
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Oil Wars: Winning the Present to Lose the Future---the Constitutional and Strategic Imperatives of Gutting the Subsidy
- Franklin Otorofani
There is a sense in which the ongoing confrontations in the streets of Abuja, Lagos, and other state capital cities in Nigeria between security forces on the one hand and pro-subsidy forces on the other could appropriately be characterized as the battlefields of oil wars although they might not involve the exchange of bombs and bullets. After all, the cold war that lasted for decades between the east and the west did not involve such ballistic exchanges, yet it was dubbed “war” nevertheless.
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Sovereign National Conference: For the Avoidance of Doubt.
- Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
It has been widely reported in the media that Nobel Laureate and social activist, Professor Whole Soyinka and Yale educated economist, Olu Falae have declared their intention to convene a Sovereign National Conference in the immediate future. They will just do it.
When a nation is under political stress and spirit possession, it is not unusual for its concerned and knowledgeable citizens to resort to their mental inheritance in order to fashion out workable panacea to restore the state to its displaced equilibrium.
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Open letter to Mr. Ruben Abati: THE CONTROVERSY OF FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND NIGERIAN POLITICS
- Daniel Atignon
I thank God for making way for you to be there as one of the advisers in the presidency in such a time like this. I carefully listened to comments, critics and body language of many stakeholders in this crucial time in history of our nation and our continent; this made me rewind back to those issues since early 1989 when one of the then regime’s policies was rejected and took people to the street and there was riot in some states of the federation. In fact, I ponder on the post June 12 struggle, the Abacha era and adventure of PDP into the soul of this nation. Suddenly, I realized that the people have not been well represented. But what lesson have we learnt?
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Nigeria: The Disastrous Consequences of Materialistic Culture; a Critical Note to the Sovereign National Conference.
- Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
A sociological enquiry I carried out last year, yielded evidential truths about the origin of Nigeria’s condition of anomie and intractable problems of its social maladies and decay.
Before colonial rule was ruthlessly imposed on Nigeria, there existed a strong bond among village people, who lived modestly, honestly and people forged bonds of altruism and solidarity.
The village chief or district head enforced law and order, assisted by village elders. There was order and the power of shame was all-pervading.
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Celebrating the Death of Reason in Protests and Imprisonment of the Intellect in Nigeria
- Franklin Otorofani
Powered by the intoxicating energy of fuel subsidy, opportunism is walking naked in its underwear on all fours on the streets of major towns and cities in Nigeria. And good old reason, which directs all logical and rational actions, has fled from the land into exile. In times like these voices of reason would always be drowned out by cacophonous effusions of rabble rousers and political demagogues parading themselves as messianic leaders. Yet the true voices of reason neither quit nor allow themselves to be drowned out by idle charter and populist pontifications by those seeking to be on the “good” side of the “masses”, regardless of the economics of the issue and the larger question of economic health of the nation that should be paramount in the minds of all patriots.
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WHY NIGERIANS ARE PROTESTING
- Chigbu Tobechi
In this day of sophisticated communication, the world is our neighborhood, and its peoples, regardless of status, are our friends and neighbors. Whatever concerns us interests them, and the advices they give us at times of our challenges whether solicited or not are deeply considered. This is the case also on the flipside in literally all aspects of our daily lives. We tend to compare extant observed conditions outside our shores, with whatever prevails within our own immediate surroundings and seek solutions from among others, asking our friends and fellow citizens of the world community offshore for counsel.
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