By Ayodeji Adesina The Nation Newspaper’s Managing Editor, Mr Waheed Odusile, is now the President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), the umbrella body for practising journalists in print and electronic media in Nigeria. He was elected as the new helmsman at the union’s election held in Abuja during the NUJ’s 2015 5th Triennial […]
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By Ayodeji Adesina Independent Communication Network Limited, publishers of TheNEWS magazine has announced plans to fold up its hard copy production line starting from next week, July 28. The Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, in his ‘Backstage’ (Editor’s opener) on page 7 of the volume 45, no 2 dated July 27, 2015, said
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Seye Joseph @seyetweets Ibim Semenitari, immediate past Commissioner for Information in Rivers State spoke with Seye Joseph at the recent Biennial Conference of Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos on her journey to the journalism profession and how she served River State as the Commission for Information. You were a journalist, former Commissioner for
President on Sunday, May 31st 2015 named Mr Femi Adesina and Mal. Garba Shehu as his spokesmen. Adesina will serve as Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) while Garba Shehu will be the new Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity). The new Special Adviser until his appointment was President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)
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President on Sunday, May 31st 2015 named Mr Femi Adesina and Mal. Garba Shehu as his spokesmen. Adesina will serve as Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) while Garba Shehu will be the new Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity). The new Special Adviser until his appointment was President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)
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Winners have emerged in the 2014 Nigerian Academy of Science awards. Folashade Adebayo, a senior correspondent with The Punch newspaper won the print category while Vivian Irikefe of TVC was named winner of the prize in the broadcast category. Ms. Irikefe, said to be the only journalists to have won the award twice was declared
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Femi Adesina was on Saturday re-elected unopposed as the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Mr. Adeshina along with some executive members of the association were returned unopposed during the 2015 Biennial Convention of the NGE held in Lagos. The other executive members re-elected were Garbadeen Mohammed
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Student journalists have been urged to read books about the country and travel widely to be better equipped to understand her complex diversity that often poses a challenge to some journalists. Editor of The Guardian, Mr. Martins Oloja, offered the advice at the Professional Forum of Students of Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos,
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Al Jazeera demands the release of their two Nigerian journalists who have been detained in Maiduguri by Nigerian forces since Tuesday morning. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris and producer Ali Mustafa were detained in their hotel room after they were returning from covering a story on the Nigerian forces fighting Boko Haram in Borno State. The
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In commemoration of the 2015 International Women’s Day marked on March 8, Hannah Ojo writes on some outstanding women journalists in Nigeria . Being a journalist in a tough terrain like the Nigeria is not a job for the lily-livered. From running endlessly to keep deadlines to working with little resources and facilities , only
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