Word Monger

The emergence of new media in modern communications has lead to the development of wide ranging applications and opportunities in the ICT environment globally. In Nigeria however, the impact of new media in our local media is greatly masked by the ineptitude of employers to provide adequate incentives to practitioners, who are poorly remunerated and often owed back log of salaries. The implication of this is the lack of interest by new media practitioners to seek gainful employment in media houses and therefore unable to contribute to the expected growth and development of the practice in the sector and the country at large. Until employers and other stake holders in the media industry pay adequate attention to these concerns, the expected positive impact and economic growth the country stand to benefit will continue to be elusive. Though this is arguable, the truth however is that a lot of media houses worldwide are already paying the price for not embracing new...

I first saw this Sony Ad on Twitter days ago and have since followed the comments .  Well let's see, apology? Yes! Maybe for irresponsible communications on the part of Sony. But does Nigeria deserve it? Hmm! Again, may be for our re-branding efforts. However, some think otherwise because of the 419 scam escapades. On the contrary though, I think that if Black Africa can live without apology from our slave masters decades after the end of slave trade and giving the efforts the government of Nigeria is making to fight the 419 scourge, EFCC in particular. I think our white brothers should be more understanding and not spite all Nigerians with such scorn as expressed in some of the comments. 

"The millennium glitch fallout: oxygen machine failure kills 1,500 miners in South Africa," "Mir Space station drifts into orbit, crews in danger". Disaster in Japan, two subway trains collide, 5,000 lives lost,: "A blackout in California, death toll in hospital hit 1,000." "Plane crash in Nigeria, 320 passengers feared dead," "One million deaths usher in the year 2000." The scenario, doomsayers believe, will be a gloom picture of calamity and stampede. It will be that of rushing ambulances and siren from police vehicles hooting at full blare and heading in opposite directions. Accident, traffic jam, pandemonium," dog bark, baby crying, explosion, and horror will fill the air. The very existence of man will be threatened by his own ingenious creation. Is the Y2K computer bug a real threat to life on earth? Will the doomsayers' prophesy about the Y2K apocalypse come true? Robert Bemer thinks the threat of the Y2K bug is a re...