An All- Christian Sunday Newspaper, Jesus Christ is set to hit the newsstands on April 10, 2016. The concept of the publication according to the United States based publisher, Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo was a divine injunction when he was detained in 1997 by the former military dictator, Gen. Sanni Abacha. ” I heard the voice […]
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Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila has emerged the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature (http://Prize.Etisalat.com.ng) for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to win the prestigious Etisalat Prize,
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Lekan Otufodunrin, Media Career Specialist and ALI Media fellow writes of the facts and insights needed for writing compelling short personal profiles and autobiographies When asked to write short autobiographies or profiles of themselves, what most people do, is fill the paragraphs with the schools they attended, their degrees, where they presently work or former
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Journalists who report on water and sanitation issues in Nigeria and five other African countries can win fully-funded study trips to major newsrooms in the United States as part of a new contest launched by impactAFRICA on Thursday, March 24. According to a press statement by the organisers of the contest, any reportage on water
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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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By Hannah Ojo The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), Abuja has held the second phase of its investigative reporting training on corruption in the security sector. The week-long training which commenced on Monday 14th of March 2016 was held in Abuja. The training is part of activities under the Access Nigeria Project organized
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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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Pan-Atlantic University, School of Media and Communication has invited applications for Ph.D programme in Media and Communication. The programme is structured top consist two semesters of course work and one half- semester of seminars or workshop in theory and method which may be held locally or abroad. The fees for the programme will cover tuition,
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Entries have been invited for the 2015 Nigerian Academy of Science Media Awards for outstanding science reporting. The yearly awards, now in its 6th year, are endowed by the Nigerian Academy of Science to promote excellence in science and science-related journalism. The awards are open to all print and broadcast journalists who published science or
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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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