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Why Nigeria’s Presidential Candidates need to debate
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
One of my favorite past times is ‘putting forward my strong reasons’ why a thing should go one way or the other. Many thanks to my father who encouraged us to ‘defend’ requests like an increase in our weekly allowances. Thinking about that particular episode makes me chuckle – the intensity with […]
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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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What’s Hot in Nigeria: How Close is Nigeria in Providing Safe Water?
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
If we got paid for all the times we heard ‘water is life’, we probably would not need it anymore; we’d be drinking, bathing, and doing everything else with gold – that’s how wealthy we’d be. How important is this most vital of natural resources? On the 28th of July […]
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Global Media Forum: Sights, sounds, and all the action!
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
What’s the next big thing after Facebook and Twitter? Is social media the peak of journalism, or is there more to be seen? Is there an end in sight for the battle for supremacy between traditional and social media? What is ‘clicktivism’, how effective it it, and what do millions […]
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Africa’s Revolution: The Inaccuracy of Labels
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
This post was inspired by a session I listened to called “Revolution postponed: The Arab Spring and Africa” at the just concluded Global Media Forum hosted by Deutsche Welle. Who provides the worldwide acceptable definition of the word ‘Revolution’? Who owns the word? Is it Tunisia, because they pretty much […]
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Nightfall in Nigeria, starring Boko Haram
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
When Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali wrote the classic ‘Nightfall in Soweto’, perhaps he had peeked far into the future and seen the exact similarities between his protagonist and Boko Haram in all their deviousness. When he wrote, “a murderous hand, lurking in the shadows, clasping the dagger, strikes down the helpless […]
