Author: JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

By: Jerome- Mario Utomi. Like every new invention which comes with opportunities and challenges, there was a veiled agreement among participants at a recent gathering in Lagos, that social media originally created to foster sharing of ideas, thoughts, information, and  encourage the building of virtual networks and communities, has turned  a nightmare to some of its users particularly the youths. The graphic description of how youth’s uncensored access to social media adversely affects their education promotes fake news, and appreciably encourage premarital sexual escapade underscores this assertion. Indeed, it was clear that the participant at the one-day youth summit which had…

…’the way that leads to future termination of corruption is the correction of past corruption, For when it is  known that those who cheated did not get away with it, prospective cheats should think twice before embarking on the negative venture’ -Wale Onyemakinde, the Guardian Newspapers of May 8, 1994. The recent directive by President Buhari urging media practitioners to among others things expose corrupt governors, local government chairmen, and other government officials, who embezzles public fund meant to improve the lots of their people, is but a pragmatic proof that politics is about grasping the moment. Apart from the…

Experience is ‘not what happened to you; it is what you do with what happens’. And its usefulness essentially manifests in the development of the capacity to escape the guilt of the past and anxiety for the future. Indeed, Nigerians like the generality of mankind know how important this teaching is to human existence, but politically, the benefits are still low with little to build -on or celebrate -a fault traceable to the nation’s non-application of previously gained knowledge to present political and socioeconomic predicaments. As we know, ‘knowledge is neutral’ and could be used either profitably or destructively. And…

 …’In trying to cure one old disease, we give rise to a hundred new ones; in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment’- Mahatma K Gandhi It is a common knowledge that there exists among vast majority of towns/villages and ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, spoken and unspoken directives/bye-law that supports formation of Towns/community Development Unions, and stipulates compulsory membership for Nigerians whose citizenship flows/rooted or traceable to being indigenes of these communities, towns and ethnic nationalities. Crucially a laudable move with capacity to promoting productive collaboration, but looking at the…