Realities of Today Blog: A Nigerian Initiative for Enlightenment

By ranking and statistics, nations of the world occupy one position or the other by self-actualization or through developmental tendencies. Nigeria as a yardstick of evaluation is globally known or called the “Giant of Africa”.  Literally, a giant assumed an extraordinary power above its counterparts. The contrary is the case in Nigeria due to the challenges facing the strength and growth of the GIANT. Amidst all controversies, there lies greatness in the nation due to her beauty and richness in many walks of life. Statistically, the nation has the highest number of manpower in Africa ranging from the skilled, semi-skilled to the unskilled labour.  However, the peculiarity of the occupants is their unequalled talents, skills in all fields of life (science inclusive) across the globe. The utilization of such talents/skills is a necessity for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria but brain drain as against brain gain is a major limitation amongst other.  Across the

Living does not make any sense when people are not privileged to interact with themselves on a day to day basis in any of their endeavours; social, economical, political, cultural and so on. The platform of such interaction differs from place to place and time to time respectively. In other words, life will be tasking and unrealistic if communication is taken out of it. Communication from any point of view connotes the flow of information from one person to another through any medium available to the sender and the receiver. Its effectiveness, therefore, ensures the message passed from the sender is digested and interpreted appropriately by the receiver. Mediums of communication from the earliest time were through looks, gestures, speeches, signs. Globalisation has therefore improved the channel of communication in developing and developed nations of the world vis; television, radio, telephone, internet e.t.c Aside, the face-to-face interaction within the basic social structur