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Austerity blues? Not In Nigeria!
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Nigeria has come a long way from 1974 when General Gowon said that the problem was not money itself but rather how to spend it. Sadly, the way since then has been been all downhill. Back then we spent more on capital projects and infrastructure than on recurrent spending. These […]
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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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Nigeria: Hobbling the Entrepreneuerial Spirit
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
In today’s economy, it is vital that young people learn to fish for themselves rather than wait to be handed fish by their guardians or society. Yet it is even better to be able to fish and sell for a profit on the open market. Why? Because young people can […]
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My New Chosen Career… To Be Very Rich
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
I made a decision this morning, and that is to be very rich. Mind you, I have always wanted to be rich, but this morning I decided on a new course of action to achieve that goal. I am going to get into public office (currently working on schematics) and […]
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Nigeria Going GREEN! A Myth or Wishful Thinking?
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Last year, I attended an event on Climate Change. Sadly, even though I promised to do so immediately after the event, I’m only just getting to write about it. So, mea culpa… but I did write about the entire weekend, and call it ‘Green Deal Weekend’. So why am I writing now? […]
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Garbage In – Nigerian Police Force out!
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Easy evening; reading up on the requirements for one job I’ve been eyeing when I stray to Twitter (*sigh*) and see a link to an article by @BellaNaija titled, ‘N150 Daily Meal Allowance, 50 Recruits Sharing A Fish Head… More Sad Facts Emerge about the Nigerian Police College, Lagos‘. Convinced that @BellaNaija […]
