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‘How I won four awards with one health story’

Zainab Yetunde Adam, a young multi-media award-winning investigative journalist is a freelance journalist working on Gender, Conflict, Humanitarian and development stories in Borno State. She has also worked in a couple of media organizations including the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Maiduguri, being an On-Air Personality, News Producer and Caster at Al-Ansar Radio and Television and […]

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‘How young women can pursue career in digital media’

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In celebration of International Women’s Day, we had the opportunity to interview Ms. Maureen Chigbo, the First Female President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Nigeria. With a focus on this year’s theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” Ms. Chigbo shares insights with BLESSING OSEMOBOR, on the role of GOCOP

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‘What worked for me as a journalist with disability’

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Oluyemi Arowosola Michael is a Fact-checker with Cable Newspaper. He has his first degree in History and Diplomatic studies and a Master’s degree in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos. Despite being a person with a disability, he is a fact-checker, translator, and reporter. In this interview with Peace Oladipo, he

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‘How to get major roles in international media organisations’

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Just when it seemed he was going to focus on being the publisher of Communiqué, a media and tech analysis newsletter with over 35,000 subscribers, David Adeleke took up the offer of being the Africa Editor at Rest of World. A graduate of Mass Communication/Media Studies from Covenant University, Otta, Adeleke had earlier headed Business

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‘How I moved from journalism to diplomacy’

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Queen Esther Iroanusi, formerly a Senior Political Reporter with Premium Times recently joined the Norwegian Embassy in Nigeria as the new Political and Development Adviser. In this brief chat, she spoke about her new job, how she got it and other details. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French language and Literature from

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‘How I moved from campus journalism to international media space’

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Olatunji Olaigbe is an international freelance journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of the Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin. The winner of the 2021 IOM West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards, his reports have been featured in a variety of publications, including Al-Jazeera, Vice Magazine, WIRED, The Record by Recorded Future, HumAngle, Rest of

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‘My adventurous campus journalism story’

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Sunday Awosoro of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) recently won ‘Best Budgetary Tracking and Procurement story award’ in the Alfred Opubor Next-Gen Award organized by the Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and ‘Upcoming writer’ by Youth Digest Campus Journalism in December 2022. The development journalist and fact checker speaks with Peace Oladipo on

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‘Key questions to answer for sustainable media business model in Nigeria’

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Until September 2022, she was the Editor of HumAngle+ and had earlier served as Managing Editor and Head of the Newsroom at HumAngle Media. Anita Eboigbe, Co-founder of Inside Nollywood and former Film Journalist/Box Office Analysis Lead at the News Agency of Nigeria in this interview with Lekan Otufodunrin speaks on her new role at

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‘How I launched newspaper, radio station in Taraba after national service’

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Concerned about the poor coverage of news and activities in Taraba State in the national media when he was there for national youth service in 2011/12, Ayodele Samuel, a graduate from the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos started writing about the state on social media and other platforms. In 2016, he launched the Taraba

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