Award-winning Indian journalist, Teresa Rehman and Amaka Okoye, a journalist with Arise News Nigeria, have shared insights on how journalists can report conflicts. The duo spoke at a webinar tagged Women in Journalism: Insights from India and Nigeria, which was held on October 28 and organized by the ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum. The […]
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Experienced media and communications strategist, Femi Salawu has been appointed as Head, Public Affairs and Media Relations of a foremost full-service agency, The Temple Company. Salawu, a former journalist is returning to the company almost three years after he left having begun as a pioneer staff in 2016. Prior to his appointment, Salawu was in
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Winners of the 2021 Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) have emerged at the ceremony held in Lokoja, Kogi State on Saturday, October 30, 2021. According to The NMMA Trust, organisers of the award, a total of 1,050 entries, the highest ever received since the inauguration of the awards in 1991, were received for this year’s
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The Health Editor of Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigeria, Ojoma Akor has emerged as the third-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest for her story about a rural community’s efforts to stave off hunger in orphans. Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition
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Reporting of Education and electricity in the Nigeria media has been enhanced under the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP) on electricity and basic education project implemented by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Ninety-one investigative stories were published in the two beats – 35 on electricity and 56 on education. The stories on electricity
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A vacancy exists for the position of Communication Officer in a forerunner organisation in the NGO community currently looking for committed individuals who are goal-oriented and want to build up their career in a high paced, proficient work environment. Based in Lagos, Nigeria his or her responsibilities include Leading the storytelling and content life of
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A forerunner media-based organisation in the NGO community is currently looking for committed individuals who are goal-oriented and want to build up their career in a high paced, proficient work environment for the position of Programme Manager. Based in Lagos, his responsibilities will include the following; Drive major accountability journalism projects – strategy design, proposal
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The Head of the Public Affairs Unit in the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Olajide Isiaka Lawal has been appointed as the new the General Manager of Radio Lagos /Eko FM. The approval of his appointment by the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu was announced on Tuesday in a statement by the State
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Founder/CEO of Afrobeats Intelligence, a weekly newsletter on African music, Joey Akpan has won a $10,000 (no strings attached) Creator Grant offered by Pallet, a New York-based organisation. Akpan is one of the three winners of the $10,000 grant which Pallet says is to accelerate the future it wants to see. “A world where consumers’
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Nigerian journalists won five out of the seven awards at stake at the West Africa Journalists of the fifth edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana on Friday. Samad Uthman of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria who now works for Dataphyte, Nigeria also emerged as joint
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