Ben Edokpayi
Ben Edokpayi is a strategic communications consultant with more than 25 years experience in the USA and Nigeria. His most recent corporate assignment was as Media Relations Officer with the California State Compensation Insurance Fund.
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What Happened to the Centenary Games?
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow When Nigeria celebrated its centenary last year in grand style part of the icing on the cake was to be a convergence of athletes for the National Sports Festival, NSF, in Calabar towards the end of 2014. More than 12,000 athletes from each […] More
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The Challenge of Jega’s Successor
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow While appraising the herculean task ahead of Attahiru Jega, the immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, I recently wrote in this space that I am nominating the amiable academician as Nigeria’s “Man of the Year” because “my gut instinct […] More
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A Sad Affair at the States
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow For most workers in Nigeria there is no calendar period more important than the end of the month. That is when they get rewarded for work done. But for workers in many states of the country the end of the month is now […] More
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The Message in Omar al-Bashir’s Cross
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The political controversy that trailed the presence of Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese president, at the recent African Union, AU, conference in South Africa is not going away any time soon. Half way through the four-day AU conference held in Johannesburg in June, al-Bashir surreptitiously […] More
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What’s The Hold up on Keshi?
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The drama surrounding the long-running negotiations between the Nigeria Football Federation and Stephen Keshi, the coaching candidate for the Super Eagles, is unprecedented in the history of football-contract negotiations anywhere in the world. Since both parties indicated interest in working together again we […] More
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More Mentors Needed for Black Community
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I can’t quite come to terms with a New York Times story this week by Binyamin Applebaum that establishes that the lot of African Americans has not improved under America’s first black president. The story in the NY Times’ Upshot Section about how […] More
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When Language Becomes A Barrier
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I am sure many journalists have been faced with scenarios where communication and/or dialogue were hindered by a language barrier. As a widely traveled journalist, I have faced several lingua franca hurdles that really stood out in countries where English was not the […] More
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When Rumour Mongers Flourish
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow “It’s not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; its extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies!” – Jeffrey Kluger This is the season when rumor mongers are at […] More
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Dubai, Then and Now
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The last time I vacationed in Dubai, the world renowned Emirates Golf Club was just an open space in the desert and the burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, was not even a blueprint. This was in the 80’s (when I was with […] More
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The Young and the Restless
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow If there is one demographic group that really needs urgent attention from Nigeria’s leaders and educators then it has to be those born between 1980 and 1999, otherwise known as the millennial generation in other climes. I have never found a group of […] More
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African Journalists In the Diaspora To Monitor Nigerian Elections
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A delegation of journalists from the US-based National Association of African Journalists (NAAJ), who are concerned about a successful democratic transition and the entrenchment of democratic principles, is set to visit Nigeria for the national elections scheduled for February 14 and 28. Members […] More
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The Nigerian Civil War through the Lens of a Medic
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Now that General Muhammadu Buhari has eased fears of a Muslim-Muslim APC ticket inflaming next years’ presidential election by picking Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as his running mate on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, Nigerians have one less issue to worry about the […] More
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