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Sound Sultan, Ambassador9ja and Young executives of Poise Graduate Finishing Academy showers love to the less privilegde one:
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STAR QUEST 2011 BEAUTY AGHEDO AKA B'DASH DROPS NEW SINGLE:::
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SENSATIONAL REGGEA SINGER QUEEN SALLY GRABS HYPE AWARDS:::
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Tuesday 27 May 2014
HILARIOUS COMEDIAN OJO MARTINS GRABS C.P.E AWARDS:::
HILARIOUS COMEDIAN OJO MARTINS GRABS C.P.E AWARDS:::
2011 Star Quest winner Beauty Aghedo becomes the Brand Ambassador of Healing Wings Foundation:::
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Sunday 25 May 2014
WHEN THE LATE FATIA ROLLING DOLLAR AND MEDIA LEGEND AMADI OGBONNA BAGGED NIGERIA MEDIA NITE OUT AWARD:::
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Saturday 24 May 2014
FLAVOUR OPENS UP ON MARITAL PLAN:::
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There's still hope/time to work the magic, ladies, if you've ever dreamt of being Mrs Chinedu Okoli
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MC GALAXY TO HOST IYANYA ALBUM LAUNCH ALBUM:::
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This gonna be a dope album...
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WHO'LL WIN MISS MILLENNIUM BEAUTY PEAGENT 2014?
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FUNNYBONE KILLED SOMEBODY AT AMAA 2014:::
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BAFTA TV Awards 2014 - comedy winner:::
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Friday 23 May 2014
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BBC
Thursday 22 May 2014
UNLEASH Your Talents” gets underway
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Friday 16 May 2014
Let’s stop these Presidential media chat Niran Adedokun
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Let’s stop these Presidential media chats
May 16, 2014 by Niran Adedokun 90 Comments
Niran Adedokun
If
you succeed in taking anything away from the Nigerian, it is not likely
that you will be able to deprive him of his optimistic spirit. Most of
us Nigerians are pathological optimists. Let me give you an example: In
the minutes, hours and days following each media chat that President
Goodluck Jonathan has had in the four years, you are sure to find loads
of criticisms, abuses, condemnations, threats not to ever waste time
listening to him again and all such on the social media. But that never
really happens. We all rush back home to catch the next Presidential
media chat.
So, why do we do that? Perhaps, we hope
that the President would have become more articulate within the space of
the last three months or that he might have earthshaking gist to unveil
– so much optimism.
As one of those Nigerians ever ready to
give President Goodluck Jonathan another chance however, I sincerely do
wish that his handlers would henceforth spare the nation the pains of
two hours wasted in the name of a Presidential media chat. In so doing,
they would not just be helping Nigerians save their time and money(since
most people would have to buy fuel to power their generators to hear
and watch what the President has to say), they will more importantly be
saving their principal from the venomous odium which follows those
interview sessions.
And I promise you, it would be impossible
to fault the decision of those Nigerians who may have chosen not to pay
attention or come back to pour invectives on the President in the event
that we ever stage another Presidential media chat. Not with what we
saw on the night of May 4, 2014.
That was a day in which not just
Nigerians but possibly the whole world looked up to the President to
explain what had and was being done about the over 200 girls that were
abducted by the Boko Haram insurgent group. It was the day in which we
expected the President to light up the fire of hope in us, but not only
did we not get that hope, the President dampened our spirit.
As a Nigerian, it was one of the lowest
moments in recent public office history that I can remember. I do not
know whether Jonathan considers the following: “I don’t know where they
are… there is no confirmation of the location of the schoolgirls; you
are a journalist, you know more than me,” a prove of his forthrightness,
but it came across as the most non-committal statement that any elected
representative of the people should say at this point in time. At the
time that he said this, Nigerians and the international community were
already livid that it took close to three weeks for the President to
speak publicly on the fate of the girls and then, he would go ahead to
bring more uncertainty than we even felt before.
Each time I think about it, I am reminded
of that Yoruba adage which enjoins the gods to leave the people in
their current state if their offer would not better their lot. I imagine
that it would have been better for Jonathan to maintain his silence on
this matter than the statement quoted above. Not even the lame pledge
that, “I assure you that we will get the girls …” could make up for the
disappointment already in the air. It was only four days later that the
President found the appropriate word, but I doubt if anyone was still
listening when he said he could no longer sleep well on account of the
girls’ abduction.
But that was not the only disenchanting
point of the night for me. I found it very objectionable that the
President has not found it right to institute a probe into the
allegations against the Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. Even
if to just prove a point. He has apparently left the lady to run the
Nigerian oil and gas sector like her personal colony. The President even
argued that Diezani was not in court to stop her probe by the House of
Representatives. Jonathan, who leads an administration which has sworn
to transform Nigeria, justified the use of private jets by governmental
bodies and made those of us who complain about its implication on the
resources of the country smell like cheap lay-abouts. While I do not
care about the diatribe that he launched at the House of Representatives
since they know how to settle themselves, the President would have done
his transformation agenda a whole lot of good by showing Nigerians that
the era in which people spent billions of public funds on their
indulgences was on the way out. The attempt to justify this by the fact
that every arm of government does it is even more indicative of a leader
who has given up on his plan.
Then the issue of the $20bn alleged to be
missing from the Federation Account by the recently suspended Governor
of the Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, is another low point of the night.
Rather than address the question on whether the government had made good
its promise to investigate the matter, the President threw verbal
punches at Sanusi, rambled about how the United States would have caught
up with anyone who stole that kind of money and then landed at what I
consider to be the most incredible proposition of the evening: Trying to
differentiate between stealing of public funds and corruption. Almost
sounding permissive of the former, Jonathan said: “People have been
confusing corruption with stealing. If public officers steal money, they
term it under corruption…” On that night, the President put a lid on
any hope that his administration would do anything to fight the
cankerworm of corruption which everyone but Jonathan sees as one of the
major challenges that Nigeria faces.
So I ask myself what exactly is the
purpose for which his handlers call him out to speak with the press
every quarter? Is it just to see the President on television or for him
to bring Nigerians, especially those who are not convinced about his
capacity, up to speed on what his administration is doing to improve the
situation in the land and possibly win more people to his side, a
public relations strategy?
I suspect the answer is the latter but
regret to say that rather than acquire more support, the President loses
more friends from these media chats. I have argued that this is not the
first time the leader of a country would be without charisma and colour
and that we need look at the performance of the man, but Jonathan
appears to present the image of someone who does not even understand the
enormity of the responsibility on his shoulders. So how does he begin
to address them?
Or is it possible that he knows what to
do but does not just have the right words to express them? If that
happens to be the case, then Nigerians should not have to rush home and
sit for two hours to listen to him smashing everyone’s hope that things
will soon get better in Nigeria by his wrong choice of words.
In the days after his last media chats,
not just Nigerians but media organisations all over the word found
demeaning words like incompetent, irresponsible in addition to clueless
and other that were hitherto used to describe the President and his
administration. This cannot in any way be the desire of those who
encourage him to speak to the nation through media chats.
To save the President and the country
from any further pains and loss of man-hour from these chats therefore, I
suggest that his men should find a less counter-productive way to sell
their principal. That is the hallmark of responsive perception
management.
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Let’s stop these Presidential media chat
Niran Adedokun
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