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Techuncode, online technology reporting platform launched

Techuncode, formerly AskIfa, an independent online media specialised in technology reporting, has been launched in Lagos, Nigeria. In a statement signed by the CEO, Charles Edosomwan, Techuncode is described as a “unique tech news platform that will communicate everything about technology in such a simplified and interesting way such that it will inspire world-renowned technological […]

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Media Programmes THISWEEK ( November 2- 7, 2020)

Media Programmes and activities scheduled to hold this week include webinar, the commemoration of the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists and others between Monday, November 2-Saturday, November 7, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details. MONDAY, November 2, 2020 PAN AFRICAN RE/INSURANCE AWARDS Pan African Re/Insurance

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Nigeria off CPJ’s Global Impunity Index on Killing of journalists

Nigeria has dropped off the Global Impunity Index that spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its 2020 report released on Wednesday, October 28 titled Getting Away with murder disclosed that Nigeria is the only country to come off the index this year. One

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Adejumo, two others make final list for global Young Journalists award

Kabir Adejumo of Premium Times, #Nigeria and two other journalists have been named as the finalists for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalists Award 2020. The others are Martín Leandro Camacho from #Peru and Anna Myroniuk from #Ukraine  They were selected from an earlier shortlist of 12 out of the initial 200 entries from 55 countries. ”

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Media programmes THISWEEK ( October 26- 31, 2020

Media Programmes and activities scheduled to hold this week include conference, report launch and others between Monday, October 26- Saturday, October 31, 2020. The programmes compiled by Oyinlola Awonuga are listed below with details. MONDAY, October 26, 2020 African Investigative Journalism Conference 2020  “Staying Sane: Journalists and Mental Health. Time:2pm-3pm (GMT+2) Click here to sign

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#ENDSARS: Attack on journalists, media unwarranted – NGE

The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has described the recent attack on some journalists and media houses as unwarranted and condemnable. In a statement by its President, Mustapha Isah and General Secretary,  Mary Atolagbe, NGE noted that the Nigerian media contributed immensely to the current democracy being enjoyed in Nigeria and should therefore operate in

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Nigeria’s Adebulu wins Africa Fact-Check of the Year award

Taiwo Adebulu of The Cable Newspaper, Nigeria has won the *Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist award organized by Africa Check. He won with his entry: “Nigeria told UN that 7 varsities run strictly on renewable energy, but is this true?” https://bit.ly/37sJKSF In response to his award, Adebulu tweeted: Amidst the chaos and

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