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By Israel  Arogbonlo Many Nigerians, especially those not comfortable with the choice of Kashim Shettima as running mate to the APC standard-bearer for the 2023 presidential election, would have thought the 'Jagaban of Nigerian politics' made a bad choice of opting for a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a secular state as ours. For Tinubu, the mission to make his 'lifelong ambition' a reality is not child's play, but one that requires a lot of political calculations and risks to achieve. When the APC candidate announced his choice of Ex-Borno governor as running mate, some political analysts might have just been proved wrong for their miscalculation in terms of the region the former would favour in his journey to Aso Villa; as some probably believed he would be considering someone from the Northwestern origin.  Guess what? It was a well-calculated risk by Nigeria's political strategist who many believed to be obsessed with a Muslim-Muslim ticket from the outset. Of the l...

  The Akeredolus are not ones to be far away from the limelight. A first family in every sense of the word, the Aketi family comprises of His Excellency- Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu the esteemed Governor of Ondo State- a Senior Advocate of Nigeria; the First Lady, Her Excellency, Betty Anyanwu Akeredolu, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, with a track record spanning decades; and their children, renowned for excellence in areas such as Tourism, Media and Technology, amongst others.   The Aketis are a versatile family, always in the spot-light. Sometimes, they are deservedly applauded for their dynamism and their achievements, but other times, they are vilified, and outrightly slandered, with antagonists, usually sacrificing decency on the altar of politics.   In this day and  age where anyone can say anything, buoyed by the semi-anonymous veil that social media provides, without being saddled with the burden of proof, the First family have become targets of attacks b...

To enable us to understand the concept of public relations in its simplest form, Dr. Cosmos Eze during one of his lectures on Public Relations: Copy and Media, opined that: as far as the public relations is concerned, "doing is very important; but there must be a saying after the doing".  Although, the practice of public relations in Nigeria, precisely, in the Northern part of the country have been very unstable over the years.  This is hinged on the activities of people who are either recruited or self employed as media ambassadors to Politicians, Business tycoons, the Armed Forces and even the current trend of activist behind keyboards parading themselves on social media. Their activities falls below professionalism. They fail to beam their torchlight to enable them decipher the distinguishing thin line between professional practice and what we have today; branded in sycophancy and praise singing.  We had recently been perturbed by the display of quackery by  one o...