Precious Igbonwelundun writes on a scary encounter with armed thugs during a raid by Nigeria Navy At first it sounded like cheering. But matching closer to the open field at Ilashe Island, Atlas Cove, through the narrow bush path from the jetty, the scenario became clearer. Thugs corking their guns, displaying charms and spoiling for […]
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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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Lekan Otufodunrin, Managing Editor, The Nation writes on his sudden redeployment as a senior editorial staff that turned out to be a blessing When life kicks you, let it kick it forward After five years of being Sunday Editor of The Nation Newspaper, I suddenly got redeployed in 2011 as Editor, Online and
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Paul Odenyi, former State House correspondent of the defunct The Comet newspaper recalls a near-tragic experience involving former President Olusegun Obasanjo during a trip to United States. It was September 2004 and I and late Josephine Lohor of Thisday Newspaper were nominated from the Presidential press corps to accompany former President Obasanjo to
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A day ahead of last Thursday’s International Women’s Day celebration, (IWD) 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 likely to be assigned to cover any of the events planned to mark the day by some organizations. “As
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Chido Nwakama in a facebook post writes on veteran journalist and educator who recently bagged a Doctorate degree from University of Westminister, London One of the high points of December 2017 for me was the successful defence of their doctoral theses by two of my dear friends. Amuche Ngwu-Nnabueze became Dr Amuche Nnabueze of the
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FROM UN WOMEN Dear editors, reporters, anchors of news organizations and bloggers, I am writing to you with a personal invitation from UN Women, to join us in a rising wave of voices speaking out to end violence against women. As #metoo and its spin offs reverberate through social and other media, both women and
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By, Adeyinka Akintunde Sports has been described in simple terms to mean all forms of competitive physical activity or games which aim to maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators. A country like Nigeria is blessed with so many sporting activities with football,
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What, really, is the business of the media? I suspect that if this question were opened to the floor there would be as many answers as there are editors. You might also be surprised that even editors working in the same media organisation would have significantly different answers. There’s nothing wrong with that. There will
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Due to several calls and enquiries on why the former Kaduna Bureau Chief of Vanguard Newspapers, Luka Binniyat, has continued to be an unwilling guest of the Kaduna Prison for nearly three months over alleged publication of false report, I am compelled to shed light on why the journalists is still without hope of regaining
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