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Tackling Nigeria’s Beast of Child Marriages
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
In March, social media woke up to a really startling story: a young girl, a 13-year-old child that had been kidnapped from Bayelsa, taken to Kano state, rechristened Aisha in an apparent conversion to Islam, and married off to a young man. The girl? Ese Oruru. The man? Yunusa Dahiru, […]
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Chioma Agwuegbo
Chioma is a graduate of Mass Communication from Ebonyi State University, in Nigeria and Social Media from Birmingham City University, in England. Her background is in radio, having worked as a reporter, duty continuity announcer and presenter for various radio stations before moving on to work as a researcher, scriptwriter and producer of radio drama for the BBC World Service Trust in Nigeria.
A social media consultant, Chioma is intrigued by social media and how it affects/influences governance as well as its relationship with concepts of social capital, open data, and intelligent/big societies. She specializes in
• Creating bespoke social media solutions for companies based on their product, location and target demographic.
• Content development and production for radio and television programmes
She has worked on projects with Chocolate City, Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), Nigeria Dialogue, Shehu Musa Ya’Adua Center, with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), among others.
A poet and contributor to various media (local and international) she tweets from @chiomachuka, is the Fairy GodSister on the blog www.fairygodsister.wordpress.com, works at www.chiomachuka.com, and has a professional page here http://www.facebook.com/pages/CC-Consulting/280213665338588
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Social Media: how much have our lives changed?
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
My best definition of social media is people on the left, people on the right, and technology in the middle. It is the democratization of information and content, the convenience and equal opportunity to share and connect with others, and the fulfillment of “the world is a global village” prophecy. […]
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Dear Nigerians, #Change is more than a hashtag
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
No, this isn’t a ‘Dear President-elect letter’; trust me I am as exhausted with them as the next man. I am not exhausted with the trekking (and cycling, and swimming, etc.) though, young men and women traversing between states on in various ways in honor of their preferred leader, whether […]
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Nigeria: One year on, Chibok is still a sad story…
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
I remember Monday the 14th of April 2014 like it was yesterday, waking up to the horrible news about yet another bomb blast, this time in the super busy Nyanya Motor Park. The explosion went off inside a car about 6.55am, the period with the highest traffic in the area as […]
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A Tale of Social Activism in Nigeria
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Thinking of what we now know as Enough is Enough Nigeria always leaves me with three feelings: Pride – that I was a part of something whose influence transcends the shores of this country. Despair – that five years after, the issues that gave birth to it are still the […]
