The August edition of the Abuja Writers Forum’s Guest Writer Session will feature the trio of Numero Unoma,Tope Fasua and Su’eddie Vershima Agema on August 31 in Abuja. Unoma is a visual artist and writer, Fasua , an economist, Chartered Accountant and Finance expert while Agema is an editor and development enthusiast. Abdullahi Abubakar, AWF’s […]
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Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed has commended Nigerian journalists for their positive contributions to the political and socio-economic development of the country. The minister gave the commendation on Saturday when hosted top media practitioners to perform the IFTAR (breaking of Ramadan fasting) in Abuja. The event which was attended by about 50 media
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Veteran journalist and ombudsman, Alhaji Alade Odunewu, is dead. The former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA), 85 died at the St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, four months before his 86th birthday. Odunewu was famous for his satirical essays and his ‘Allah De’ column published in the Daily Times and later
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Three Nigerian journalists, Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye, Editor of Sunday Punch and Tolu Ogunlesi, Freelance for Ventures Africa and Geoff Iyatse, The Guardian, are on the final list of nominees for the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2013 Competition. They are among 27 finalists from 11 countries announced on Monday by Ferial Haffajee, Chair of the independent
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The management of Punch Newspapers has confirmed the appointments of two of its acting editors. Martins Ayankola was confirmed as Editor of the daily paper, while Toyosi Ogunseye was confirmed as Editor of Sunday Punch. Emeka Madunagu, erstwhile acting editor of Saturday Punch has reportedly been reassigned to head the Editorial Training department of the
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Blessing Olisa Punch Nigeria Limited, publishers of The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH and Sunday PUNCH titles has vacancies for a few ‘serious minded’ graduates who will be absorbed into its workforce as correspondents on completion of a three month training. According to an advert in the paper on Monday, July 8, 2013, applicants (preferably between 22
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Nigeria’s Tope Folarin has won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for his short story entitled ‘Miracle’ from Transition<http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/transition-magazine>, Issue 109 (Bloomington, 2012). The Chair of Judges, Gus Casely-Hayford, announced Tope Folarin as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 8 July)
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The Board of The Sun Publishing Limited has approved new editorial appointments with effect from July 1, 2013. On that date, new editors take over at different levels, to serve our teeming readers and give them more value for money. According to Mr Tony Onyima, Managing Director/Editor-in-chief, the new appointments “are aimed at driving our
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Six Nigerian journalists are among the final nominees in five out of 10 categories of the 2013 Diageo Africa Business Reporting (DABRA) Awards announced on Friday, May 10, 2013, in London, United Kingdom. Winners of the 10 categories will be decided and announced by a prestigious international judging panel made up of experts from the
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Vanguard columnist, Chief Pini Jason Onyegbaduo,popularly known as Pini Jason, is dead. Vanguard reports that Jason died on Saturday, May 4 afternoon in a Lagos hospital after undergoing a surgical procedure a few days ago. He was 65. Mr. Jason was a long time Vanguard columnist who took a leave of absence in 2007 to
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