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Premium Times Abdulaziz, 11 others clinch Soyinka Investigative reporting awards

Premium Times journalist, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz and 11 others have emerged winners of the 2018  Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting. Abdulaziz, with ‘The Kemi Adeosun expose’ published in Premium Times, won the overall Investigative Journalist of the Year award and the online category. In the print category, Mojeed Alabi emerged winner for his two-part story, […]

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Vetrans to celeberate 160 years of journalism in Nigeria

The Nigerian League of Veteran Journalists (NLVJ) plans to celebrate 160 years anniversary of journalism in Nigeria. The Nation Newspapers reports that activities to mark the celebration from November 22 which will end in March next year in Abeokuta, Ogun State.  President of the League,  Eddie Aderinokun,  who spoke  at the group’s press parley unveiling

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Ekanem leaves Nigerian Breweries, launches Marketing, PR company

The Corporate Affairs Adviser and member of the Executive Committee of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Kufre Ekanem has resigned from the brewing giant with effect from October 1, 2018. Ekanem,  communications expert and poet, it was learnt has completed his notice period on September 30 and has since commenced his consulting dream with Philosoville Limited, a Culture, Marketing

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MEDIA

Call for interest in media workshop on reporting 2019 electoral process

A two-day Media training workshop on best practices and professional reporting of the electoral process ahead of the 2019 general elections is to be conducted by International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos. The workshop, supported by the EU under Component 4b: Support to the media of the EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) project

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BusinessDay journalist wins invitation to global tech conference

Head of New Technology desk for BusinessDay Media Limited, Frank Eleanya has been named as the winner of the invitation by the African Press Organisation Group (APO) to attend the Web Summit (https://WebSummit.com), the Largest Tech Conference in the World, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from November 5 to 8. APO Group, will offer

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Sponsored coverage of global events for journalists

APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), a leading global media relations consultancy each year offers journalists the opportunity to attend major events as a part of its commitment to supporting journalism in Africa. Three previous recipients of the AfricaCom invitation were science journalist Aimable Twahirwa from Rwanda (https://bit.ly/2y42xAe), journalist John Churu from Botswana (https://bit.ly/2NVy4PP) and journalist Lilian Murugi

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Fact-checking training for journalists

TRi Facts, Africa Check’s training unit has invited mid-career journalists to apply for a two-day Election fact-checking and verifications training workshop in Nigeria. The training is aimed at having fact-checking champions to help build in-house fact-checking capacity within media organisations to improve the quality of election reporting and fostering a wider culture of fact-checking. Scheduled

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