Outlook

Three years ago this week, while peacefully protesting for police reform in Nigeria, I was arrested alongside a few other protesters at Millennium Park in Abuja. Three years later, despite the promises of comprehensive police reform and the government's promise to improve the working conditions of our uniformed personnel, not much has changed. Today, across…

Since assuming office as the Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani has brought new vista to the governance of the historical State. Typical of an activist, that he is, Uba Sani came in with clarity of purpose and a mindset to ensure a level playing field on all levels of administration. In less than…

In every team sport, there is always an unsung hero. In football, he is often the man in the midfield or defence who does the “dirty” job of keeping the opponents at bay, making his team’s goal area highly restrictive. He is that team player, who ensures the seamless coordination of his team while operating…

Media relations in Public Relations is about building relationships with members of the press. It refers to the mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and PR professionals. According to Obrien, A (2014), media relations is the systematic, well-planned, cooperative relationship and company interactions with journalists and the mass media, including television, newspapers and the internet. Experts…

If the 1555 book, Les Propheties, by the French Astrologer, Apothecary and Physician, Michel De Nostredame, popularly known as Nostradamus is to be recreated or adopted in the light of the present times, the documentary would probably be titled ‘The Man who saw Today’ instead of the dramatic premiering as a Man who saw Tomorrow.…

In the past few years, it has become a tradition for me to put down a befitting tribute every 2nd of September to celebrate my boss's birthday, the executive governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal. It won't be any different today, but unlike previous years, I am writing about Dauda Lawal, a Governor, as he…

Political communications strategists around the world are watching the most recent Donald Trump indictment and taking notes. Just a few days after he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on allegations that he had conspired to overturn the 2020 election results in the state, his campaign organization announced that it had…

The hurriedly declared resolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deploy troops to restore democracy and reinstate the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic, after the military takeover of power on the 26th of July, might have been influenced by the need to avoid foreign interventions that could lead to…

About two weeks ago, the Nigerian Government took a bold step towards ensuring that hunger in Nigeria is fixed. The government, in this regard, recently declared a state of emergency on food security. The move was to check the looming food shortage, occasioned by low agricultural production fueled by instability. Mr Dele Alake, the Special…

"Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” ― Aung San Suu Kyi Based on documented history, the majority of citizens agree that public sector corruption is a bane to Nigeria's progress. For decades, outsiders saw the nation as a…

"Are you aware of the increasing political gang-up against Professor Pate?!" A caller using a foreign number thundered down the phone line before the call suddenly dropped. While I expected the person to call again, I wondered which of the respected academics from Northern Nigeria he was referring to. I am aware of two professors…

The group of rebellious five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections are finding it extremely difficult to make President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list despite their lobbies to become part of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government that most of them did not contribute anything to the party’s presidential victory.…