As the Group Managing Director/CEO of Television Continental, TVC, Mr Andrew Hanlon steps down after seven years in office, Mrs Victoria Ajayi, the former Deputy Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will resume head of the broadcast organisation in May 2024. Ajayi, who joined TVC in 2013 as Head of Finance, rose to Deputy Chief Financial Officer […]
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Media organisations have again been urged to address gender disparities in newsrooms and news based on the findings of the ‘Who leads the newsroom and news?‘ report on parity between men and women in newsrooms and news in Nigeria by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Speakers at the public presentation on Thursday 15
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Media experts have tasked journalists on the need to build and develop a career roadmap that will enable them to reach their peak. They also harped on the need for journalists to identify and create a niche for themselves. They made the submissions at a one-day virtual workshop for journalists tagged; “Career Roadmap for 2024”,
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Female journalists who participated in the capacity-building workshop, themed Gender Active, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) in Lagos have shared insights and lessons they gained during the training. The programme held from 30th January to 1st February 2024 according to Yemi Adeyemi, NLNG’s Acting Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, is another edition in
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The Deputy Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Dr Dele Omojuyigbe has said the lack of a documented history of the foremost school of journalism in Nigeria inspired him to publish the book “NIJ’s Inside Story..from my lenses The Beaut, the Bend” Omojuyigbe erstwhile journalist, seasoned educationist, and serial author stated this at
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Three Nigerian journalists who have made their mark in the Nigerian media space with outstanding performance have moved on to international media platforms. They took to their social media pages to share the good news have expressed their joy and enthusiasm for their new roles while being celebrated by their fellows. Samad Uthman a multi-award-winning
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A Federal high court in Abuja has ruled that the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) lacked the constitutional power to fine media houses as it issues an order of perpetual injunction restraining recurrence. Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, on while ruling on the lawsuit filed by Media Rights Agenda(MRA) stated that NBC being an administrative body created by
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The daughter of one of the two Nigerian journalists killed in Liberia in 1990, Abisola Awotunsin Itua has written a poem in honour of her father and his colleague calling for better honour for them. Tayo Awotunsin of Champion Newspaper and Krees Imodibe of The Guardian were killed while covering the civil war in Liberia.
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A Nigerian, Saint Mienpamo Onitsha is among the 320 journalists imprisoned last year in connection with their work globally according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) annual prison census. Mienpamo publisher of Naija Live TV online platform is one of the 67 jailed in Africa as of December 1, 2023. He was arrested on
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The oversight role of the media in ensuring public officials are accountable, responsive, and efficient managers of the Nigeria Defence and Security sector was among the recommendations at the end of a two-day defence and security anti-corruption training for civil society organisations and media practitioners held in Lagos recently. The workshop was organised by the
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