How many Managing Editors of major national newspapers in Nigeria who are women do you know? There is probably none for now, except Stella Iyaji of Daily Trust Newspaper, who is one of the very few women occupying top management positions in the print media sector in the country. Iyaji who marked her birthday on […]
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Media Career Development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin writes on how he does what he usually ask journalists to do about maximising career opportunities. One of the things I know I am guilty of is always asking, sometimes putting pressure on journalists to take advantage of available opportunities. I seem, like some colleagues say, to make it
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Correspondent of Media Career, Raphael Adenaike recalls his last interview with Mohammed Fawehimi, lawyer and first son of the legal luminary Chief Gani Fawhinmi, who recently died in Lagos. “There is no country I haven’t been to for treatment – England, Germany, Israel, name it,” Mohammed Fawehinmi had told me off-the-record about his health condition.
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When I smelt the aura of being a third-year undergraduate after the vicissitudes of academic assignments, my hope of being a ‘2021′ graduate was suddenly dashed by the outbreak of the pandemic. Sadly my dream was disrupted on March 20, 2020, when the Federal Ministry of Education ordered the immediate closure of all educational institutions
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Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, we just began the (2019/2020) academic session and it was my third year at the university. I cruised through life, attending lectures, spending time with my learning colleagues, and engaged actively in journalism activities on campus. Little did I know my fast-paced life would come to a halt in
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The question caught me off guard. Although I was the only male facilitator at the training session with 21 female journalists, I had assumed that my role during the ‘ladies talk’ on staying safe and managing conflicts which was dominated by sexual harassment experience was to listen and offer my advice. I wasn’t expecting to
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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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The Making of the Nigerian Flagship: A story of The Guardian by Aaron Ukodie and O’seun Ogunseitan launched recently is full of many interesting and insightful recollections by journalists who worked in the organization in its first ten years of operations. The book is a treasure considering the no-holds back accounts many of the former
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Media career development specialist, Lekan Otufodunrin recalls a conversation with a reporter who shared his agony about not getting deserved promotion. I still recall the telephone conversation like yesterday though it was more than ten years ago I spoke with the state correspondent in a newspaper I used to work. He had called to draw
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The Making of the Nigerian flagship: A story of The Guardian will be launched in Lagos on Thursday, one of the authors of the book and pioneer Agriculture and Science Correspondent, O’Seun Ogunseitan in this Facebook post recalls the nostalgic era of the newspaper’s first 10 years. It is not every day that some 400
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