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Achumba: Broadcast journalist of many parts

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By MCS Correspondent Nigeria’s top flight broadcast journalist Adaure Achumba has launched her website website www.adaureachumba.com. The website according to lindaikeji.blogspot.com is to showcase Adaure’s journalism work and promote her brand as a media personality, and socio-cultural and current affairs pundit. Visitors to www.adaureachumba.com will get “ a chance to see a different side to […]

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Editors should defend the rights of the masses- Amaechi

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Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has urged Nigerian editors to continue to defend the rights of the masses in the country. He made the call on Sunday during a courtesy visit to him by the new executive of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, led by the President, Femi Adesina. “As editors, you constitute a part

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Owens-Ibie delivers Caleb's Inaugural lecture April 9

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Professor Nosa Owens-Ibie of the Caleb University, Lagos will deliver the first inaugural Lecture of the institution on April 9, 2013. The title of the lecture is Communicating an Implosion: Signs and Wander, Popular Culture and the Crumbling of Empire. The acting Registrar of the University Mrs Folake Okor in a statement said the lecture

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Owens-Ibie delivers Caleb’s Inaugural lecture April 9

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Professor Nosa Owens-Ibie of the Caleb University, Lagos will deliver the first inaugural Lecture of the institution on April 9, 2013. The title of the lecture is Communicating an Implosion: Signs and Wander, Popular Culture and the Crumbling of Empire. The acting Registrar of the University Mrs Folake Okor in a statement said the lecture

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Akingbade bags global medal for coverage of Climate Change

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Nigerian foremost Environment journalist, Tunde Akingbade Snr of Guardian on Sunday on Thursday, March 14, 2013 bagged the Global Prize Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation/United Nations Medal for coverage of Climate Change at the United Nations Headquarters in New York . The Prize organized by the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) at the United

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Journalism: Beyond the brown envelope

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By Dayo Emmanuel For long, media practice in Nigeria has been more of a sacrifice than a job that has much benefit. Like the teaching profession whose reward is often said to be in heaven, the reward of journalists sometimes can be said to be in the celestial since journalists sometime do not get full

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Nigeria Photography Expo and Conference 2013

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By Abiodun Alade, MCS Reporter The 2013 edition of the Nigeria Photography Expo and Conference will hold from April 29th to May 2nd, 2013 at Our Place, 7, Olufunmi Okikiolu street, off Toyin street, Opebi, Lagos state. There will be seminar on topics like Street and Documentary Photography (SDP), Wedding Photography (WPH), Best Business Practices

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2013 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards

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March 15 is the deadline for the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards. The Awards recognise journalists and editors who provide high quality coverage of the business environment in Africa. It recognise the fact that better business journalism plays an important role in Africa’s investment flows and generates more business interest on the continent. Who can

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Certificate in Media Enterprise Programme

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The School of Media and Communication, Pan-African University has called for registration for its Certificate in Media Enterprise (CME). This programme will run from April 9th to July 23rd 2013 at the Victoria Island campus of the university. According to Doris Onyejeose, Marketing Manager School of Media and Communication the CME is a general management

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I want to be remembered as a reporter- Sola Odunfa

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He is a journalists’ journalist. If you call him a veteran, you would not be faulted. He joined the pen profession in 1962 and for decades, he discharged his duty to the admiration of his readers. His decision to go into journalism was not accidental. “While I was in school I had some role models.

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