Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo Olu has urged the Federal Government to review its decision on the suspension of Twitter operations in the country. Speaking in Lagos on Monday, Sanwo-Olu said the issue can be handled a lot better considering the number of e-commerce firms and youths that are engaging in digital stuff. While not […]
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Participatory Communication for Gender Development Initiative (PAGED) has trained journalists on covid-19 response and safety as part of frontline workers. The two-day capacity building workshop was organised for journalists from Adamawa, Bauchi, Plateau, Taraba and Gombe, held in Bauchi State and was sponsored by the European Union (EU). A Media Consultant, Mr Ibrahim Iliyasu, the
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The suspension of the operations of microblogging social media platform, Twitter, by the federal government has continued to attract wide condemnation by human rights groups, various groups and individuals. On Monday, two non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press Centre (IPC) today condemned the suspension and threatened to lodge a formal complaint
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Theodora Aidoo writes on the experiences of three female journalists in the newsroom in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Men have largely dominated journalism in Ghana and women’s voices were not often heard in the media in times of crisis and conflict. These days, however, there is a paradigm shift, and this is no
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Applications for the 4th edition of Paradigm Digital Rights and Inclusion Media Fellowship, DRIMF, for interested media professionals in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe is open till June 22, 2021. DRIMF, a programme of the Paradigm Initiative, through academic and practical learnings, seeks to embed media professionals within the digital ecosystem and connect
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JamblabAfrica in collaboration with Civic Tech Innovation has organized a webinar to discuss “Africa Elections, Africa Voices: Old and New Roles for Journalism and Civic Tech Community.” The webinar held on Thursday, 27th May 2021 was facilitated by four panellists: Kathy Magrobi, Founder of Quote This Woman, Ivan Louis Pinno, a co-founder of Digital Woman
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West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has unveiled the twenty-six fellows selected for its 2021 cohort of fact-checkers to combat misinformation in the sub-region. The platform, under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), announced the commencement of the yearly fellowship in Abuja on Monday 17th May 2021. Now in
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African Media Agency (AMA) writes on the 13th anniversary of the founding of Africa 24 Media by Asif Sheikh whose passion is to build an independent media conglomerate to enable Africans to tell, own, and benefit from their own stories. They say 3rd time is a charm, we say 13 is our charm. Today marks
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Associate Editor of The Nation Newspaper and author Olukorede Yishau and three other Nigerian writers have been nominated by the United States Mission in Nigeria for the University of Iowa’s programme tagged ‘Telling Our Stories: Creative Writing and Healthcare’. The other Nigerians are Nigeria Prize for Literature winner Jude Idada , a poet, Ololade Ajayi,
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Undergraduates in tertiary institutions in the country have been tasked to explore growth opportunities while still in school to enhance their career prospects in Public Relations. The advice was given on Saturday, May 22nd, during the sixth edition of the virtual Public Relations Students on Campus Summit, exclusively for students of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree,
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