Tag Archives: #PRisDead

Issues in Public Relations in Nigeria – Emeka Oparah

Two unrelated incidents conspired to compel me to eventually make this intervention, which I have been planning forever. One was a personal experience a professional colleague shared with me, recently-a story that touches the heart, in a manner of speaking. After a recent event, he lamented, his Managing Director received a Google Alert barely an […]

Using Our Own Medicine – My speech at the Public Presentation of Nigeria PR Report

  Something happened in 2015.   A poor 72-year-old, unpopular, retired army-general ran to be president of Nigeria, an oil-rich West African country with population of about 200 million people.   His opponent, the incumbent, was a 57-year-old Ph.D. who, three years earlier while he was VP, was so popular and favoured that influential citizens […]

#PRisdead: Setting a foundation for the #RiseofPR

I agree that PR is dead… But death is not always a bad thing. At times it gives us an opportunity to reflect, re-invent… a second chance to do this right. That’s why we invited stakeholders to BHM Group on October 6, 2015 to discuss the life and times of PR. It wasn’t just to mourn the […]

Inside Nigeria’s PR Industry of Brown Envelopes, Press Releases and Quacks

Honoraria. Flava. Keske. T-fare. Brown Envelope. These are just some of the code names by which cash exchange for editorial coverage is known in Nigeria. In a country where there are over 50 newspapers and magazines on the newsstands, hundreds of radio and TV stations, and an ocean of blogs and websites, it is no […]