My Musings
When the news broke on Sept. 8, 2022 that Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain’s health was a source of concern to her physicians, a Nigerian-born professor of Applied Linguistics […]
» Read moreElon Musk is not joining Twitter board after all. This was revealed in an announcement made on Twitter on Sunday, April 10, 2022 by the CEO, Parag Agrawal. According to […]
» Read moreEveryone wants to tell stories these days and do so to the largest possible audience online. Due to the competition among all these story tellers, some circumvent the norms of […]
» Read moreOn Oct. 14, 2020, about two weeks before the US presidential elections in November that year, the New York Post (the country’s oldest newspaper) broke a story about emails recovered […]
» Read moreEveryday people come online to join the bashing bandwagon. They read one or two sentences of an accusation against someone and they quickly jump in to hurl invectives at the […]
» Read moreWhenever I go online, I see heated conversations where people say mean things to one another. Some are so hurt by these toxic exchanges that they swear off social media […]
» Read moreIntroduction There is so much dishonesty nowadays and one area it is very glaring is in the area of writing. People indiscriminately copy other people’s works and pass them off […]
» Read moreThis post presents a summary of a short virtual course on how to gain and expand one’s global attention by reporting consistently via the social media. It was offered free to students of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, by social media specialist, Ms. Kamara Daughtry.
We are grateful to Ms. Daughtry for taking the time to teach and challenge our students to start their journalism careers even while in school by being active in making the most of news opportunities and building rich portfolios via their social media accounts.
» Read moreWould Dorsey have expressed any remorse if Twitter’s stock prices had not tumbled after banning Trump? And is he making any definite effort to level the playing field for people with different viewpoints? I don’t think so. This is virtue signalling at best.
» Read moreAlmost everyday when you come on social media or go on the MSM, there is one issue or the other trending over which people are tearing out their hair and […]
» Read moreIntro: It appears that getting offended has become the regular pastime of many people in today’s world. People are offended by any and everything. In May 2018, a white US […]
» Read moreIntro: A few days ago, I saw a skit on Godtube.com. In it, Christian comedian, John Crist, along with colleague Trey Kennedy, imagined they were receiving social media updates from […]
» Read moreIntro: In our technology-driven world today, it is easy to stay disconnected from other people and become inward-looking to an unhealthy extent. Perhaps, that is why on social media threads, […]
» Read moreIntro: This was meant to be a “Thank you” note to everyone who showed me love two days ago on my birthday but I am led to share a true […]
» Read moreI read a post on a sister’s wall on Facebook and I was alarmed at the content. The post was complaining about something that some men do and insults were […]
» Read moreIntro: This article is a follow-up to my last post: Grace and the Golden Rule. In it, I explained the meaning of grace which I am further elucidating here. Grace […]
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