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The Estates of the Future
How much is a digital information worth? How lucrative can a digital enterprise be? Exactly how life changing and career threatening can a new media information be? How expensive can a tweet be? As...
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Everyday Life with the New Media by Sola Fagorusi
For most people in my generation, we are swiftly adjusting to the new definition of ‘new’. For people outside my generation, they are also being ‘forced’ to adjust to what ‘new’ in the sense of the...
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‘What Citizen Journalism should be’ by Sola Fagorusi
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. Janet Cooke’s story was classic and brilliant and she knew that. Titled – Jimmy’s World, Janet skilfully told the story of an 8 year old that had been hooked...
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Google Plus: Really a Plus? by Sola Fagorusi
The numero uno search engine – Google continues to lead the global search industry. There is nobody who uses the World Wide Web without deploying Google at some point. Very handy in finding...
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The Nigerian Police: Bullets, Blogs and Blood by Sola Fagorusi
Once again, the world felt cold. The United States of America had been hit. A twin bomb had been let off in Boston, capital of Massachusetts. Back home, the Boko Haram sect continues to wage war...
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Two Can Play: A Tale of Government and Young People (1)
I am sitting down with one of my closest friend and trying to sound him out on contraception and its accessibility. I am amazed to discover he really has no subterranean knowledge on how to use the...
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Baga, the Military and the New Media by Sola Fagorusi
‘If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it will be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun’ – Dalai Lama XVI Last week, the story of the bloodshed in Baga, a fishing community in Borno...
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Parents as Digital Guardians by Sola Fagorusi
It no longer takes a village to raise a child. That’s anachronistic. Today, it takes the world to raise a child! One of the greatest influences I had as an adolescent came in form of information about...
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National Security and the Freedom to Ping by Sola Fagorusi
Dedicated consumers of news would remember the man behind the name Edgar Hoover. He was the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI in the United States of America. Edgar held...
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If Gani Fawehinmi was on Twitter by Sola Fagorusi
It was an afternoon, I had just finished a continuous assessment exam when the news came that Gani, like we were wont to affectionately call him, was already on the campus to receive an honorary degree...
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To Google is Human by Sola Fagorusi
Until 2001, the word Google meant nothing. Today, it is both a noun and a verb. My computer does not underline it as a spelling error. The only remotely close words to it – goggle and goggles means to...
View ArticleTwitter For Professionals By ‘Sola Fagorusi
Recently, a friend of mine drew my attention to the telegram age and why he felt that Twitter, just like other social network platforms, is a metaphor for the telegram. The telegram is a long-distance...
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ASUU Strike: The Untold New Media Story
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on strike for 56 days. It translates that public universities students across the country have had to put the noble quest for knowledge within the four...
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B.Sc. Social Media: NUC’s New Burden By ‘Sola Fagorusi
About two months ago, the National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie mentioned that 70 additional universities have been added to the existing number we have...
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You and Your Phone are One By ‘Sola Fagorusi
It was 5.30am in the morning when she hit the street with her earphones on. Light was beginning to shove darkness away for another 12 hours or so. Panting, and with her mind fixated on her weight loss...
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Visually Impaired User on Twitter, Facebook By ‘Sola Fagorusi
Life is a gift. We should learn to appreciate it irrespective of our circumstance, while learning to trounce the challenges on our paths. Last week, I was guest speaker at the Gathering of Eagles...
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Social Enterprises and Social Media By ‘Sola Fagorusi
Last weekend, Twitter and Facebook went abuzz for a creditable social cause. Courtesy of Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA), a non-profit, the issue of “constitutionalism and...
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A Promising New Year Resolution by @SolaFagro
Watching the year start at this moment is like watching an Olympian start the marathon; the excitement may not be visible at the first couple of laps but with the final lap comes all the excitement and...
View Article2013: The year we tweeted! (PART 2)
By: ’Sola Fagorusi Like a cruise ship on a draining journey, we are finally berthing on the 52nd week of the year 2013 despite all the topsy-turvy we have experienced as a nation. The world over, we...
View ArticleGovernor Dickson and Nigeria’s Cybercrime Bill
By ‘Sola Fagorusi The Governor of Balyesa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson must be a happy man these days. His temperament to criticism of public office holders from the children of anger, a la Reuben Abati...
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