The late Publisher of the Nigerian Tribune, Chief Oluwole Awolowo, approved the payment of the National Minimum Wage for staff of the media house on his sick bed. The Managing Director of Nigerian Tribune, Mr Edward Dickson, disclosed this on Thursday, April 4, 2013 in Ibadan, Oyo State when a three-man delegation of the Nigerian […]
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The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Malam Mohammed Garba has been elected the new President of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ). He was elected at the third Congress of the Federation, which ended in Casablanca, Morocco, on Sunday. Mrs Louisa Rogerio from Angola was elected the Vice President, while Stanislas Nkundiye from
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An experienced journalist and Lawyer, Mr Sina Awelewa has been appointed as the Director-General of the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES) by the State government. He is a graduate of Mass Communication and Law from the University of Lagos. He started his career as a journalist with the Guinness Nigeria Plc as the Public
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By MCS Reporter Ten journalists and seven photojournalists have been shortlisted for the 2012 Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award which results will be announced on April 5, 2013 According to the organizers, those shortlisted for the Journalist of the Year category include Sylva Emeka- Okereke of Champion Newspapers, Jimi David of The Nation Newspapers, Gregory
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The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday ordered a retrial of a suit on the ownership of Daily Times of Nigeria (DTN) by another judge of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi. The Nation reports that in a judgment delivered by presiding Justice Amina Augie, the appellate court faulted an earlier judgment delivered by Justice
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Over 75 passengers and crew narrowly including officials of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ) escaped death Thursday, March 28 as a Rabat, Morocco-bound Royal Air Maroc flight lost one of its engines mid-air in Lagos. The flight, which according to Vanguard Newspapers took off at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 7:30am,
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A broadcaster with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Akure, Mrs. Olubunmi Oke was on Thursday, March 21 kidnapped by unknown gunmen on her way from work in Akure. Oke, a nursing mother, was abducted shortly after she read the news bulletin on NTA that evening and was with her child and housemaid when she was
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The management of the Kaduna based New Nigeria Newspapers has been urged to immediately disburse the about N420 million it received from the federal government for the payment of liability, pension and gratuity to its workers. The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in a statement by the Secretary of the Kaduna state Council, Dominic Uzu
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Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has urged Nigerian editors to continue to defend the rights of the masses in the country. He made the call on Sunday during a courtesy visit to him by the new executive of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, led by the President, Femi Adesina. “As editors, you constitute a part
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Professor Nosa Owens-Ibie of the Caleb University, Lagos will deliver the first inaugural Lecture of the institution on April 9, 2013. The title of the lecture is Communicating an Implosion: Signs and Wander, Popular Culture and the Crumbling of Empire. The acting Registrar of the University Mrs Folake Okor in a statement said the lecture
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