http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/894 2026-04-05T18:12:45Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2702 Media Indices of the Campaign against Trafficking in Persons by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Related Matters OKUJENI, Richard This study was motivated by a very low anti-trafficking in persons campaign activities and their increasingly isolated report by the media against the backdrop of flourishing modern day slavery. It was meant to establish the status of the campaign against human trafficking in terms of its media indices - frequency, prominence, slant, etc. Content analysis, with a coding sheet as instrument of data collection was employed as main design of the study. In-depth interview and focus group discussion guide were the instruments of data gathering, they were used to reinforce or othervise the findings of the quantitative inquiry. Out of a population of 1,146 editions of print and broadcast content, a sample of 141 was drawn from four general orientation media outfits (NTA, FRCN, The Punch and TELL) using constructed month and census sampling techniques. The study empirically established a high frequency of coverage by the media, low prominence accorded to trafficking in persons issues and overwhelming positive slant. These findings were either reinforced or rejected by the result of the interview and two separate focus groups sessions. The study recommended that NAPTIP and the media up their acts and finish the work they started. In addition to informational strategy, educational,transformational and other persuasive tactics were also suggested. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2701 Eva Two Faces of Love OKUJENI, Richard Loving Eva - a bastard Wafi sex goddess - was like taking a dive into the yawning mouth of a hungry lioness. Regrettably that was what just arrived Doctor Ituru - an exploding genius architecture - did. The curtain almost drew on her deadly leech-work when a bewitched Mosaic detected unforgivable "cheating" and "injustice". The result: Eva got a loaded pay cheque; for cheating and for daring that Doctor had to meet that ghastly duo of grisly Rakatana the maschismo and sleek love Joe the savage - both kingpins of the dreaded Warri wild. An encounter which sparked a hoopla drama that held even maverick Wafi in a bated breath as the gods moved to make a point. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2700 INTRA-UNION CRISIS The Nupeng Experience OKUJENI, Richard Suddenly a premier national industrial labour union cut into a course of political self-destruction. Brethren and comrades alike went for each others' throat across a well-defined ideological battleline. Intra-Unian Crisis is an honest and moving account of how the National Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers, one of the 42 affiliate national industrial unions of the NLC, was engulfed in intra-union squabble, the magnitude of which remains unprecedented in the history of labour movements the world over. It was a crisis in which over N.7m oil workers'check-off-dues were wasted, and defied all solutions,including intervention by judiciary, the police,personalities and institutions, climaxing in a threat to undermine the economic security of the Nigerian nation.Only the timely intervention of the President and Commander-In-Chief of t :Armed Forces, General Ibrahim Babangida, saved the day. A well researched, honest account of the four-year fratricide in NUPENG, THE NUPENG EXPERIENCE is rich and colourful in power-play and intrigues, well strewn together by deep insiders. A thought-provoking epoch, it could transform the history, principles and practices of labour relations and politics in Nigeria and elsewhere. 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2694 CONSIDERATIONS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING AND SPEAKING OKUJENI, Richard Public Relations writing and speaking is a scholarly article which probed the concerns of public relations practitioners when they write or speak. The piece revealed a range of what public relations people write or speak on and the role communication plays in the network. The passage through the realm of communication, in an "intertwined" relationship with public relations, is splashed with elements of good writing: including source and receiver responsibility for communication success,language of communication,readability and an update on referencing in view of the digital revolution just experienced and a model of the application of public relations theory in boosting communication impact. The reader is then lead through professional steps public relations writers and spokespersons adopt to enhance the effect of their communication effort. The article ends with ethical concems and guidelines for negotiating the land mine represented by dealing with the public. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z