Female campus journalists in the country have been trained on how to exercise their digital rights. The training organised by Education As A Vaccine (E.V.A) Nigeria with the theme “Safe to Surf” was held 17th-18th January in Abuja. During the training, Sandra Jonathan, the Program Officer for EVA stated that the training is […]
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It was an impressive turnout of some of the leading lights of communication and media scholarship and practice in Nigeria, and another demonstration of the commitment of the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN), to solutions, real solutions and cutting-edge solutions. The Guest Mentor, President, ACSPN and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, Prof Umaru
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Unknown to me, my writing songs-inspired articles did not start recently with Let Nothing kill your Journalism vibes based on Bloody Samaritan by Ayra Starr which I published on November 12, 2021. The first time was July 2012 when I wrote the article with the headline of this piece. I remembered the article as I
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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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