Tunde Abatan, Associate Editor writes on the accomplished career of Marcel Okeke, renowned financial journalist and economist How else would you describe the career and professional pursuit of a consummate journalist and writer who weathered the storm on all fronts, both in the newsroom and for several years in the corporate world? For Marcel […]
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Of recent there has been movements of some staff of Television Continental (TVC), Lagos to a foreign broadcast station in the country. The staff moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) which began transmission recently. TVC, according to sources is said to be the target of the recruitment by BBC due to the technological edge the
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa short story writing competition is now open for entries from all women writing in Hausa, irrespective of their nationality or experience. According to a press statement by Marina Forsythe BBC World Service Group Communications Publicist, entries must be engaging works of fiction on any topic and should be between 1000 to 1500 words. A
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Individuals and institutions interested in presenting findings from media audience research activities and/or relevant case studies have been invited to participate in the 19th PAMRO All Africa Media Research Conference. PAMRO’s contact email for the conference is pamro.africa@gmail.com The conference is scheduled to hold from 26 – 28 August 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. The
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Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to Sokoto State Governor, Imam Imam is dead. The former Group Political Editor of THISDAY Newspapers died on Friday, April 27. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Imam died around 3.am at the Nziamye Turkish Hospital Abuja after a brief illness on Friday. The younger brother, Abubakar
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World Press Freedom Day: IPC to launch Nigerian Journalists Internet Rights Initiative (NJIRI); calls for prompt Presidential assent of the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill The Nigerian Journalists Internet Rights Initiative (NJIRI) is to be launched on May 2 to mark the 2018 World Press Freedom Day (WPFD). Director of International Press Centre (IPC), Mr.
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By Tajudeen Adebanjo The 6th edition of the Internet Freedom Forum (IFF) will commence on Monday, April 23 in Abuja. Organised by Paradigm Initiative, the three-day event, which holds at NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, is supported by Microsoft, Ford Foundation, Google, Facebook, Civicus among others. Session organisers at the forum include Amnesty International (AI), Web
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Lekan Otufodunrin, media career development specialist writes on what it takes to be a journalist in the new media age. A day ahead of 2018 International Women’s Day celebration, (IWD) I asked a young female journalist what her plans were for the day. Surprised by the question which she never expected, she responded that she was
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HEALTH TIMES-an integrated news website, wholly dedicated to reporting the Nigerian health sector has been launched The website, www.healthtimes.ng according to the Founder/ Editor-In-Chief, Kingsley Obom-Egbulem would cover the Nigerian health sector like never before. “From communicable to non-communicable diseases, medical tourism, public health epidemics, infant and maternal health, epidemiology of and health promotion, activities in
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By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat Mention five states in Nigeria that are considered not peaceful based on public perception? That was the question that shaped the private conversation I had with two veteran media personalities and crisis communication experts this past week. It was an unplanned discussion about the role of media in communicating events and
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