Lekan Otufodunrin highlights six unhealthy habits of journalists and how to take necessary precautions. When Hannah Ojo of The Nation recently shared a picture of a bottle of Coca Cola and Gala on her facebook timeline, with the question” Food(and)drink of future champions. Agree? Disagree? she probably was just trying to tease her friends and […]
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The first go-to for any Nigerian blogger when it comes to monetizing their blog is AdSense. It is no surprise as AdSense is one of the best contextual online advertising networks for any blog as well as one of the safest blog monetization networks available to today, thanks to the quality of ads and recurring
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New appointments in the editorial and marketing departments of The AUTHORITY newspapers has been approved by the Chairman / Publisher of newspapers, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah. In the editorial changes which take immediate effect, Mr. Joe Nwankwo, the pioneer Executive Director of Publications, has been re-designated as the Executive Director in charge of the South East
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By Joe Agbro Selected Nigerian journalists are getting set to participate in the third batch of the Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa Executive Training Program beginning in Lagos on April 11. The training is meant to increase the number of mid-career business and financial journalists in Nigerian via six study blocks spanning April and September 2016.
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By Samson Adeyanju Uwala A media scholar, Dr. Dele Omojuyigbe, has urged the media to always ensure careful investigation of its reports before publication or broadcast. Omojuyigbe made this remark during the public presentation of his book “Media Language and Ideologies” on Wednesday, March 30 at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos. According to him,
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An All- Christian Sunday Newspaper, Jesus Christ is set to hit the newsstands on April 10, 2016. The concept of the publication according to the United States based publisher, Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo was a divine injunction when he was detained in 1997 by the former military dictator, Gen. Sanni Abacha. ” I heard the voice
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Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila has emerged the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature (http://Prize.Etisalat.com.ng) for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to win the prestigious Etisalat Prize,
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Six children of deceased journalists were on Thursday offered scholarships by the Richard Akinnola Foundation to support their education. Chairman of the Foundation, Mr. Richard Akinnola while presenting the scholarship of N100,000 each to the beneficiaries in Lagos said the gesture was meant to ameliorate the sufferings widows of the deceased journalists face having lost
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The United Nations Women has launched an innovative partnership with 35 leading media houses to galvanise attention and concrete action toward women’s rights and gender equality. The compact was signed at the ongoing 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, holding at the UN Headquarters in New York. The leading media houses
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Winners have emerged in the first edition of the Screenplay writing competition organised by the department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic and Creative Village Productions, USA, a media firm owned by an alumnus of the department. Mass Communication students of the Polytechnic were asked to write a 15-minute television documentary screenplay on the “Sounds
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