The Importance of Social Listening in Crisis Management
Effective crisis management is essential for maintaining a company’s reputation and operational stability. One of the most critical tools in the arsenal of any organization aiming to manage crises successfully is social listening. By actively monitoring online conversations, businesses can quickly identify emerging issues before they escalate into full-blown crises. This proactive approach enables companies […]
Crisis Management on Social Media: Best Practices for Businesses
Crisis management on social media is a vital aspect of modern business strategy. As platforms like Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram become central to how organizations interact with customers, the potential for reputational risks escalates. Effective management of these risks requires not only vigilance but also a structured approach. Read more about Social Media […]
How to Pivot Your Business During a Crisis
Crises can be game-changers for businesses. Whether it’s a global pandemic, economic downturn, or a sudden industry shift, companies need to adapt quickly to survive and thrive. Pivoting your business during a crisis is a challenging but necessary process. In this article, we explore how to pivot your business effectively when faced with adversity. […]
How The Federal Government Can Resolve The Crisis In The South East
In the past few weeks, the once peaceful and lively commercial region of the Southeast has transformed into a terror zone. No day passes by where the story of murder, kidnap, arson, and civilian intimidation by terror groups of Unknown Gunmen is not told. Read more about Politics The rise in the terrorization of the […]
Did You Know: Nigeria’s Aviation Sector Crisis Averted
On Saturday, 7th May 2022, activities at Benin Airport were at a feverish pace. Passengers flocked in from Delta state amidst tales of an impending shutdown of airline operations by May 9th, 2022. Earlier last week, NUATE, ANAP, and AUPCTRE had sent word out that they were set for a two-day strike on behalf of […]
How To Handle Crisis In Business
Leading a business can be like a roller coaster because there will always be ups and downs and no matter how smoothly things run most of the time, crises are inevitable. Read more about Business Crisis can arise anytime, anywhere and from any business. It ranges from a natural crisis like earthquakes or floods […]
How Businesses Can Recover from a Crisis
Olagoke and Abimbola Balogun both have a lot to share about getting a business back up from crisis. As cofounders of popular fresh food chain SoFresh, the couple has pulled their company out of near-collapse and steered it to tremendous growth over the past few years. Starting as a struggling food store in Lagos, SoFresh […]
ThrowBack Thursday: The 1983 Political Violence in Ondo
On 16th August 1983, a general election was conducted by the Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) into gubernatorial positions across the country. Alhaji Shehu Shagari being the incumbent president, assured citizens that the general elections is going to be free and fair. What culminated after the declaration of results in some states was so violent that […]
The Implications of Insecurity on the General Nigerian Psyche
Fear is a common emotion which humans experience, day in day out. However, in a largely unsecured environment, the feeling of fear is more magnified. In little time, fear develops into paranoia where an individual might just panic needlessly whether s/he is in danger or not. Nigerians who travel frequently on roads sometimes live to tell in […]
The Trend of Normalizing National Tragedies with Silence
There has been a series of sad reportage in the past weeks stemming from Boko Haram killings- the media was strangely silent about them until news filtered out. There was also little ‘anger’ from the people directed towards the officials at the helm of national affairs entrusted with keeping national security after word got out […]
Volleyball Premier League Moved To 3rd November
Due to the ongoing crisis in some parts of Northern Nigeria, the Nigeria Volleyball Premier League (NVBL), initially scheduled for November 1, in Kaduna State, has now been moved to the 3rd of November 2018, in Abuja. According to a memo to clubs by the Local Organizing Community (LOC), the league, will now hold from […]
ThrowBack Thursday: And Odi Town Got Massacred
After peaceful entreaties fail, desperate measures by the authorities such as a wipe-out in the scale of the Odi massacre gets employed. Nothing is as brazen as a president ordering the wipeout of a town in this era, especially when they are citizens of a country he governs. The chain of command sanctioning the massacre […]
Lagos 2019: When Ambode Locked Horns with Tinubu
Election season in Nigeria rolling over every four years is always resplendent with a lot of drama and political stunts. It is a season when mentees remember they have a godfather to woo somewhere; godfathers too perch, waiting to wield their sating influence over political bases and on rising stars. Monies flow left, right and […]
ThrowBack Thursday: When Aba Women Rioted
On 2nd December 1929, women numbering up to 10,000 and mostly in their middle ages, trooped to the streets in a seldom seen occurrence in African societies. It was not the only women protest Nigeria would ever see, but the reforms that followed the protests truly cemented the place of the partakers, tagged as ‘Aba Women’, […]
Throw Back Thursday: The Accord in Aburi That Didn’t Stand
Between 4th & 5th January 1967, a few months before the Nigerian civil war began in July 1967, a few military officers from Nigeria dragged one another to a location in Ghana, named Aburi. They left the meeting with a consensus agreement historically known as the Aburi Accord. It is, however, well known today that […]