The death of Mr Toyin Obadina, Deputy Editor, Saturday Newswatch from the guns of suspected armed robbers, is not only agonizing and horrendous, it is quite sickening. All men of the fraternity of the pen, to which Obadina belonged, are revolted that a man returning home from his legitimate duty is waylaid, robbed, and then […]
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Africa’s first awards honouring journalism that scrutinises what public figures in Africa say has been launched by the AFP Foundation and Africacheck.org. AFP Foundation is AFP news agency’s non-profit media training organization while www.africacheck.org, Africa’s first fact-checking website. “It is essential for democracies to function properly, that claims made by public personalities can be checked
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Former Lagos State governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande has hinted of plans to revive the publication of his rested newspaper, Lagos News on Mondays. He disclosed the plan in an interview with Saturday Punch during which he attributed the stoppage of the publication to economic reasons. Alhaji Jakande, a veteran journalist noted that journalism practice in
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Nigerian journalists have been asked to report positive news items to change the negative perception of the country. Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State made the call Saturday when the Managing Director of The Telegraph newspapers, Mr. Bolaji Tunji and his management team paid him a courtesy visit at Governor’s Office, Uyo. “Let’s us change the
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By Kelechi Amakoh With a pop culture orientation,’ News of the World’, a new newspaper is set to join the league of newspapers jostling for space in the print media market. The soon-to-be-published newspaper promises to adopt ‘human angle slants and flourishes’ reporting style. The brains behind the project are two returnees from abroad: Ekerete
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Kelechi Amakoh reports on the launch of a report on rural poverty reporting in Nigeria Reportage of rural poverty issues by the print media in Nigeria is relatively low. This was one of the major the outcomes of a survey titled Monitoring Rural Poverty Reporting by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos in conjunction with
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New appointments and promotions have been approved by the Board of Directors of The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of Sun Newspapers. The new appointments according to the Sun Newspaper of Wednesday of December 18 is to reinforce the position of the newspaper as the market leader, and the number one choice of readers and advertisers.
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A new book, Conversations with My country by Managing Editor of Sun Newspaper, Funke Egbemode will be presented to the public in Lagos on December 12. Delta State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is the Chief Presenter of the book, while the chairman of the occasion is the Secretary to the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim. Other
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A new book, Conversations with My country by Managing Editor of Sun Newspaper, Funke Egbemode will be presented to the public in Lagos on December 12. Delta State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is the Chief Presenter of the book, while the chairman of the occasion is the Secretary to the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim. Other
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With the aim of assisting security agencies in the fight against crime, Chief Detective, a new magazine is set to hit newsstands on December 3. The crime detective magazine, a monthly, is the brain child of a group of journalists led by Dipo Kehinde, a renowned crime journalist with over 24 years experience. The monthly
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