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Back Stage : Backstage 20 October, 2008
October 13, 2008

Like play, like play, as the Nigerian colloquialism goes, the world’s financial crisis worsens. In March, when the Nigerian stock market suddenly began changing from a three-year high of bullish proportions to a price slide, investors waved it off as a temporary experience. A prolonged bearish run was a novel experience on the Nigerian Stock …

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Back Stage : Backstage 13 October, 2008
October 6, 2008

From Sokoto to Port Harcourt, if you sample the opinion of Nigerians on the state of their nation, the preponderance of opinion would most likely be that the nation is not headed in the right direction. There is so much hunger and anger in the land and Nigerians, who saw in President Umar Yar’Adua a …

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Back Stage : Backstage; 6 October, 2008
September 29, 2008

Barka de Sallah and happy Independence Day to all our readers in Nigeria and outside.
We pray that the season will bear fruit in your lives. We also wish our country well in the years ahead. And that is one of the reasons we have chosen to focus on one of the major planks of the …

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Back Stage : Backstage 22 september, 2008
September 15, 2008

President Umar Yar’Adua has given Nigerians much cause for concern in recent weeks. For a President not on official leave, Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence, and given the shoddy job done by his minders in explaining what exactly he was doing in Saudi Arabia, gave free rein to speculation and rumours. At some point, the rumour of …

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Back Stage : Backstage 15 September, 2008
September 8, 2008

If those in government are expected to “govern” well, those in charge of communication should not only make sure that it is effective, it must be truthful.
Information becomes ineffective if the person issuing it uses convoluted language to suit his own ego without the target audience being able to decode it. On the other hand, …

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