Globalisation and Information Communication Technologies: Repositioning Nigeria's image and reputation towards greater acceptability

Abstract

Currently, Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have set no limits to which whirlwind messages may flow unhindered universally. This trend has shocked many nations, particularly Nigeria, where the ills of nationhood are no longer hidden, but exposed globally. Nigeria is currently regarded universally as a failed nation. This essay considers and recommends very urgent steps for the effective re-positioning of Nigeria in the world scheme of things for popular and greater universal acceptability. This could be done, using globalisation and Information Communication Technologies to represent Nigeria's international image and reputation from a fresh national orientation and locally fronted perspective.
The essay introduces related problems in questioning; defining or explaining associated concepts used in the study. It touches on the effects of globalisation and Information Communication Technologies on Nigeria now and in the future. It initially visualizes the possibility of repositioning Nigeria's image and reputation internally and then proffers coherent achievable remedies that may perhaps ameliorate the current sordid situation. If implemented faithfully, these solutions may serve to resolve the current negative picture of Nigeria globally.


LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol.3 () 2006: pp.299-311