On seven decades, I rejoice with Elder Dele Banjoko for a good life of service to the media and our great union, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos Council and the National body. Today’s birthday celebration, January 28, 2024, is instructive. Last year, Elder Dele Banjoko was critically ill and in a coma for […]
Garlands for Banjoko versatile journalist, media unionists @70. Read More »
The daughter of one of the two Nigerian journalists killed in Liberia in 1990, Abisola Awotunsin Itua has written a poem in honour of her father and his colleague calling for better honour for them. Tayo Awotunsin of Champion Newspaper and Krees Imodibe of The Guardian were killed while covering the civil war in Liberia.
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A Nigerian, Saint Mienpamo Onitsha is among the 320 journalists imprisoned last year in connection with their work globally according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) annual prison census. Mienpamo publisher of Naija Live TV online platform is one of the 67 jailed in Africa as of December 1, 2023. He was arrested on
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The oversight role of the media in ensuring public officials are accountable, responsive, and efficient managers of the Nigeria Defence and Security sector was among the recommendations at the end of a two-day defence and security anti-corruption training for civil society organisations and media practitioners held in Lagos recently. The workshop was organised by the
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Congratulations to all journalists and media professionals whose work anniversaries in their present place of employment or companies/organisations they own are this January. Hopefully, they knew it was their work anniversary and marked it in whatever way they could, even if it only made them know how long they had been on their present work.
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Entries for the 2023 Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism has been opened. This year marks the 49th edition of the annual awards, and for the first time in the history of the competition, journalists throughout Africa can submit their entries in any category. According to Sanlam Group Executive, Market Development and Sustainability,
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Bode Olanitori who was former Plateau state correspondent in Jos for The Punch Newspaper recalls his narrow escape while covering killings in Jos, Plateau State in his contribution to OUR PUNCH YEARS book by 38 former staff of the newspaper A time came when I was transferred to Jos as the Plateau State Correspondent. Jos,
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To write exclusive stories while she was a reporter, Bosede Olusola-Obasa, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, of 1st Royal Character & Values Limited (RCV), shared some insights in her contribution to OUR PUNCH YEARS book recently published. The former Senior Correspondent, Saturday Punch in her chapter titled What kept me in The Punch for fourteen
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Last October, our organization, Media Career Development Network(MCDN), devoted to offering structured career development support and programmes for journalists and the media industry in Nigeria and beyond clocked five. Specifically, our aims and objectives at inception include the following: *To promote excellence in media practice in Nigeria *To organise media training and provide mentoring support
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