A new news agency (www.AfricanDailyVoice.com/en) was on Monday launched by the African Daily Voice (ADV) Group. As a new entrant in the very competitive media market, ADV according to a statement plans to work with ten regional desks: Algiers (Algeria), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Douala (Cameroon), Kinshasa (DRC), Bangui (RCA), Johannesburg (South Africa), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), […]
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Braimah is a public relations and marketing strategist based in Lagos pays tributes to veteran journalist and co-founder of defunct Newswatch Magazine, Mr Ray Ekpu Achieving three scores plus ten years in good health and sound mind is usually no mean feat in a season growing with discontent, anger and frustration. Life has become short
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How does anyone who hasn’t ever tweeted anything or has her tweets protected apply to be a social media manager for a newspaper? How? The above question is a tweet on @Clinic4Journos The Journalism Clinic, Hub for first-rate journalism learning. Even without asking, I knew the question is based on the earlier tweet below: A
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The 2018 Nigeria Breweries Plc Golden Pen Award ceremony will hold on Friday, September 28 at the Civic Centre, Lagos. Winners of the award will be announced at the ceremony scheduled to commence at 5pm. Prizes for the 10th edition of the award according to the sponsors have been reviewed upwards for the winning journalists
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Journalist and media career development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on his 24 years work experiences in The Punch and The Nation Newspapers. The 12th anniversary of The Nation Newspaper last Tuesday is very significant for my media career. The significance is that I have equaled the number of years I spent in The Punch where
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Tribute to Alhaji Lateef Jakande, veteran journalist and former governor of Lagos State. The concept of leadership has always been of tremendous interest to classical thinkers as well as contemporary political and management scholars as our world continues on the path of progressive evolution. On the other hand, visionary leadership theory rose to prominence in 1980-90s, and
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The second Google for Nigeria event was held in Lagos on Thursday with the announcement of the launching of Google Station for Nigeria to make the internet more easily accessible for Nigerians. Google Station for Nigeria is a program to provide high quality, high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots in partnership with 21st Century, one of the largest
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Media professionals in Africa have been invited to apply for ‘Merck More Than a Mother’ Media recognition Awards 2018 sponsored by Merck Foundation (Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany. The applicants are to showcase their work to raise awareness about infertility prevention and make infertility and breaking infertility stigma in Africa. The awards according
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The Nation’s reporter Hannah Ojo has been named as one of the fifteen 2018 fellows for United Nation’s Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship. The programme is an opportunity for young journalists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition to cover the United Nations. Hosted every fall at UN Headquarters, the programme brings a
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on Friday stressed the need for journalists in Benue to be trained on effective reporting of agricultural policies. The institute’s communication Specialist, Mr Onyeche Douglas, made this known in a statement in Makurdi on Friday. Douglas said that training was therefore being organised for journalists as
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