So we woke up yesterday morning to one of the most bizarre Twitter storms we are likely to see all year, as Super Eagles Head Coach Sunday Oliseh decided it was a good idea to post a video of himself…
BY AYENI ADEKUNLE SAMUEL CEO, BHM GROUP It’s 2015. It’s July 9, and almost 50 workers at BlackHouse Media, a public relations agency in Lagos, Nigeria are out of patience waiting for June salaries. A week earlier, the finance team…
BY AYENI ADEKUNLE SAMUEL CEO, BHM GROUP Honoraria. Flava. Keske. T-fare. Brown Envelope. These are just some of the code names by which cash exchange for editorial coverage is known in Nigeria. In a country where there are over 50…
It is the story of a growing industry in a young and rapidly expanding African economy. The story has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. There are wizened old heads with decades of experience and a new wave of…
The death of Public Relations has been announced. Born to the Nigerian Railway Corporation and UAC in 1948 in Lagos, PR lived for 66 years and moved extensively around Nigeria before passing away following a protracted digital illness which began…
Chido Nwakamah was still president of Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) when we sat in my office at BlackHouse Media in 2014. BHM, where I am CEO, was launching Nigeria’s first mobile application in the PR industry…
A 2015 research by BHM Media & Intelligence Unit The Difference Between Public Relations and Advertising Public Relations, on the one hand, helps establish and maintain mutual lines of communication, understanding, acceptance and cooperation between an organization (or brand) and…
A Very Good Bad Guy: The Story Of Innocent 2Face Idibia’ edited by former Publicist Ayeni Adekunle featuring contributions from his mom, his wife and closest friends and never seen before photos is set for public presentation on musician’s 40th…