As part of her effort to reward excellence and creativity in journalism, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has called for application into the ninth edition of the award. In a statement that was signed by the Coordinator of Centre, Motunrayo Alaka has it that the award is opened for submission on Saturday […]
Enterprise Creative, a social enterprise set up to build capacity and support small businesses in the creative sector holds writing workshop for writers and journalists. The workshop that is to hold on10th of October, 2014 will be hosted by award-winning poet, prose writer and publisher Charles Ayo Dada and will be facilitated by
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Every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every year and every decade of our lives matter. What we do and what we don’t do within the various time spans ultimately accounts for how our lives and careers turn out. October 1 marks the beginning of last quarter of the year and it is a
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British Council Nigeria has called journalists reporting culture in the country to learn how to report culture effectively in the country and around the world. In a report that was release on the organisation website, the essence of the training is to facilitate the circulation of knowledge and experience among participants, improve culture reporting
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By David Lawal Media Rights Agenda (MRA) Wednesday challenged the State Security Service (SSS) and Niger State government to immediately charge Tega Oghenedoro, the journalist in their detention to court if there are actionable evidence against him. Oghenedoro, a staff of the Nigerian Television Authority in Asaba, Delta state, was arrested by SSS for allegedly
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He was Deputy Editor of The Punch Newspapers when he interviewed me for employment as a reporter in 1987. Mr Ademola Osinubi was to later become the Editor, General Manager and Managing Director of the paper where I worked till 1999 when I resigned. I still recall how he ‘cajoled’ me to accept to be
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From Wednesday, August 27 to Sunday, August 31, 2014, members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) will gather in Katsina, for this year’s Nigerian Editors’ Conference (ANEC). This week’s editions of the MCD Diary will be devoted to writing about issues relating to what editors do and how they can improve on their job.
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One of the attributes required to be a good journalist is to be a sceptic. Who else but a journalist requires evidence for claims as sceptics do? In the course of our work, we regularly find claims which we have to verify to properly inform and educate our audience. A sceptical mind that is based
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Not many professions compare with journalism in terms of being intensive and requiring so much time to the detriment of other important aspects of one’s life. Meeting deadlines, not missing stories, generating story ideas, editing copies, getting exclusives and many other tasks require so much time that you are constantly thinking about work, on and
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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka once told the story of how he was not employed at the defunct Daily Times Newspaper as a reporter for writing a short story instead of a news story during an employment test. He ended the story of the career path he opted for with the statement, “thank God
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