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Nigeria: People are dying because people are dying.
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
I was catching up on articles early this morning when I saw a tribute Dr Ojia Adamolekun wrote for her elder brother who died in 2004 after a car accident. A mechanic test driving a car ran into the one he was in, and they couldn’t get an ambulance to […]
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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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The 5 W’s of Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate: Act 2
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Growing up, my father taught me that stating a problem over and over doesn’t turn it into a solution. Ditto for avoiding that problem or pretending it doesn’t exist. The only way to solve a problem is to ‘solve it’. After I did the ‘5 W’s Of Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate: Act […]
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The 5 W’s of Nigeria’s Unemployment: Act 1
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
A young woman struggles through university, enduring a few strikes, disreputable advances from cultists, depraved lecturers and other similar low-life and manages to graduate with a second class upper degree, maybe even a first class. She’s from a low income family, maybe the first or second from her kindred with […]
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Mob Action Act in Nigeria… Or Not!
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
A few days ago I saw a link to a video about some ‘retribution’ meted out to a shoplifter at Shoprite, not sure if it’s Lagos or Abuja at this time. The video starts with a lot of people screaming and a young lady who’s had most of her clothes ripped off, held by […]
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Justice versus Jungle Justice in Nigeria
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
In my first year as a Mass Communication student at Ebonyi State University, I was terrorized by a course mate who started with wanting me to write up his essay for him. When I refused, he said if we were married I wouldn’t have refused him and so he was […]
