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Akinnola Scholarship for children of deceased journalists

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Six children of deceased journalists were on Thursday offered scholarships by the Richard Akinnola Foundation to support their education. Chairman of the Foundation, Mr. Richard Akinnola while presenting the scholarship of N100,000 each to the beneficiaries in Lagos said the gesture was meant to ameliorate the sufferings widows of the deceased journalists face having lost […]

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UN Women partners media on women’s rights, gender equality

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The United Nations Women has  launched an innovative partnership with 35 leading media houses to galvanise attention and concrete action toward women’s rights and gender equality. The  compact was signed at the ongoing 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, holding at the UN Headquarters in New York. The leading media houses

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Winners emerge in Screenplay writing competition

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Winners have emerged in the first edition of the Screenplay writing competition organised by the department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic and Creative Village Productions, USA, a media firm owned by an alumnus of the department. Mass Communication students of the Polytechnic were asked to write a 15-minute television documentary screenplay on the “Sounds

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Nigeria, Al Jazeera to collaborate on training for journalists

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Nigeria and the Doha-based international broadcaster Al Jazeera are to collaborate in the area of capacity building for journalists in the government-owned media organizations, especially the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The agreement followed a request made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to Al Jazeera to collaborate with the Ministry of

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Continuous education necessary for journalists – Utomi

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The President, Centre for Values and Leadership, Professor Pat Utomi has emphasized the need for continuous education as a critical factor for the development of journalism profession in the country. Utomi spoke at the inaugural lecture of the newly established Centre for Financial Journalism in Lagos. “If journalists can be trained and be retrained on

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