The Head, Online Media and Special Publication at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Omoniyi Ibietan, is currently concluding preparations to launch his latest work, Cyber Politics.
A closer look at the book cover by the Editorial Book of Business Hilights showed amongst other things, that the emerging game changer in cyber dynamics is coming with strategic analysis on Nigeria’s Social Media, Social Demography and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria.
Also, the book which will centre on new digital online and social media communication will look at issues on social fields and social demographic factor.
*Who is Omoniyi Ibietan, PhD?
Omoniyi Ibietan, PhD, a certified regulation specialist, multi-stakeholder relationship and communication management professional, and social entrepreneur, is Head Online Media and Special Publication at the Nigerian Communications Commission Abuja. He was also Senior Manager Media Management and earlier, he served the Commission as Senior Manager Legislative Relations at the Commission. In that capacity, he was a frontline relationship manager of the Commission with the National Assembly (Nigeria’s Federal Bicameral Parliament). Omoniyi was also Manager, Media and PR at the Commission in 2011. Before he joined the NCC, in the summer of 2007, Omoniyi signed on with the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, set up its Corporate Communications Department and later managed its Media Strategy and External Relations responsibilities. Between February 2006 and May 2007, he served as Special Assistant (Media) to Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Information and National Orientation (later Information and Communication). Omoniyi also worked with Freedom House (Nigeria Project, first in sub-Saharan Africa) as Regional Media Researcher in charge of Niger Delta region, during which period he was also commissioned to conduct baseline studies of civil society groups in the Niger Delta as a preface to the Youth Leaders Training Workshop on Non Violent Transformation of Conflict, organized by the Costa Rica-Based United Nations-mandated University for Peace. The workshop held in Port Harcourt and he also served as a rapporteur at the workshop. Very early in his carrer, he worked as Staff Consultant with Set and Sell Communications Limited, publishers of Waterlink, the official journal of the Nigerian Water Supply Association. Equally, he was for a long time a volunteer staff of ECO-OUTREACH, a non-governmental environmental rights advocacy group in the Niger Delta where he served as Programmes Officer.
He’s an advocate of popular, representative & participatory democracy.
*Congratulations from all of us at Business Hilights
