The immediate past President of Press Club Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Hassan Abdulsalam, has visited some members of the club on three months Compulsory Students Industrial Work Experience (SIWES) to remind them of the importance of training. He visited the Merci Multimedia Concept Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State and charged them to maximize all opportunities that […]
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has vacancies for Communication Officer and Programme Manager. Interested applicants should send a motivation letter stating how they fit the bill and why they would like to work with WSCIJ (not more than 300 words) along with your resume as a single document, to career@wscij.org. Email subject must
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By Emmanuel Udom It is no longer news that Femi Onayemi, a veteran journalist and correspondent of the defunct Concord Press of Nigeria, Lagos, is dead. Funke Fajorin, his step-daughter, confirmed this online, saying her Dad was admitted to a private hospital on December 25, 2021, and died on December 30, following an undisclosed illness. However, Fajorin
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After listening to a song by Nigerian singer and songwriter Azeez Adeshina Fashola, known professionally as Naira Marley based on his tour of the United States, Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin recalls his first time in the US. After I wrote two songs inspired articles, Let Nothing Kill Your Journalism Vibes, based on Ayra Starr’s
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As a senior reporter with the Nigerian Tribune, Ifedayo Ogunyemi and fifteen other top journalists and media professionals globally have been named as the LEDE Fellows — journalism entrepreneurs spreading solutions journalism to their communities and beyond by the Solutions Journalism Network. Ogunyemi, who is also a fact-checker, solutions reporter and media coach covers politics,
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Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin reviews the trend of many journalists launching general interest websites and offers his candid view on options to consider. When I resigned from The Nation Newspaper in December 2018, some of my colleagues assumed that starting my own news website will be one of my options. They had
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Media Career Development Specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on the need for journalists to have a vision for and mission for their career. In her last email message for 2021 titled Pain Pushes Until Vision Pulls, Thoela DeBoSe, a former Washington Post Reporter, wrote that her vision for 2022 is to relaunch her Career Change BootCamp online
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Star Presenter/Producer at ARISE NEWS Amaka Okoye has joined Deutsche Welle as its West Africa correspondent. She announced her movement in a LinkedIn Post on Tuesday with the post: “I am happy to announce that I have accepted an offer with Deutsche Welle as its correspondent covering West Africa.” She added to the post: To new beginnings #DWGirl
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A seasoned media professional, Mr Ayo Arowojolu has been appointed Head, Public Relations of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to a press statement by the University’s Acting Registrar, Mr Olusola Aladesuru, Arowojolu is on Sabbatical from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) where he served as Assistant Director, Public Relations. Arowojolu who has
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The management of TheCable has named three young journalists in the company as the “most improved” journalists for 2021. The award is a new category added to the annual Journalist of the Year to recognise journalists in the newspaper “who have demonstrated industry, resilience and self-motivation as well as having produced impact stories during
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