The 13th edition of the Wole Soyinka Centre media lecture series to mark the 87th birthday of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka will on July 13 in Lagos. A press statement by Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, Executive Director/CEO, Wole Soyinka Centre For Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), disclosed that the lecture will feature eight panelists on the theme […]
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Excerpts from In the Name of Our Father by Olukorede S. Yishau, longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature I switched on my radio set the next morning around eight. I didn’t have any programme in mind that I wanted to listen to. Fortunately, the early news was being read. I raised the volume
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Germany based publisher of The African Courier, Mr Femi Awoniyi has been elected President of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO) Germany. He was elected unopposed by members of the organization for a two-year term at its Annual General Meeting on Saturday 26th June 2021. Awoniyi, a journalist and media consultant who studied Engineering was
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A leading Nigerian newspaper is looking to employ reporters, investigative journalists and copy editors. The requirements and other details according to an announcement on the Facebook page of Investigative Journalist and Founder, Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Fisayo Soyombo are below: REPORTERS The ideal candidates are preferably young with excellent writing skills. Any degree is
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President of the National Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ), Samuel Ajala, in this interview with Abdulrasheed Hammad, unveiled the agenda and programmes towards repositioning the union. The plans include a partnership with media organizations and professionals in the country and measures to enhance press freedom in Nigeria campuses. Your executive has been up and running with
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Sixty journalists in Kenya have been trained on gender-sensitive COVID-19 reporting by the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK). Marceline Nyambala, the association’s executive director said the two-day training was part of its sensitisation programmes that seek to promote balanced reporting in the Kenyan media space. “There’s is an imbalance in gender reporting, and
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Keynote by Martins Oloja, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian, at the Nigerian Academy of Science 2021Media Award Dinner at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, June 18, 2021. I would like to thank the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) for the invitation to deliver this keynote on science journalism at this time. I have been
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Trust in news is on the increase worldwide, including Nigeria in the wake of the pandemic according to the Digital News Report 2021 released on Wednesday. The Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, UK, is the most comprehensive annual report on news consumption worldwide. This year’s
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One thing I like to pay attention to at media awards ceremonies is not only who the winners were, but the reasons they won. I pay attention to the verdict of the judges who assessed the entries and why they preferred the winning entries out of the whole lot they looked through. Some keywords usually
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A Correspondent of The Punch Newspaper, Tunde Ajaja and Assistant Chief Producer of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Funke Fayemi are the winners of the 2020 National Academy of Science (NAS) Science Media Award. Ajaja won the print category, while Fayemi is the winner of the broadcast category out of the 47 entries for the
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