Editor of Sunday Punch, Toyosi Ogunseye has been appointed as the Head of Language Services for West Africa by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service. Rachel Akidi Okwir, Editor of Focus on Africa was also named Head of the Language service for East Africa as part of the BBC World Service’s continuing expansion in […]
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Associate Editor and Head of Investigation Desk of The Nation Newspaper, Adekunle Yusuf has emerged the Investigative Journalist of the year at the 12th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Former Minister of Education, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo and nine other outstanding journalists were honoured
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A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Executive Director of the Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo, and ten journalists have been shortlisted for the 12th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting The ceremony organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is scheduled to hold on the World Anti-Corruption
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All is set for the commencement of the Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) 2017 in Accra, Ghana on Monday, November 13. Speakers and participants for the summit at the Kempinski Hotel, Gold Coast City have arrived for the three-day gathering to be hosted by Matt Winkler, Co-Founder & Editor Emeritus, Bloomberg News, and Justin Smith,
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The National Information Officer of UN Information Centre (UNIC), Oluseyi Soremekun, has called on the media to drive the new narratives about urban development in Nigeria. He made the call at a Media Workshop on Post-Habitat III Conference/ New Urban Agenda organised by UNIC and the UN-Habitat Nigeria . Soremekun said the media need to
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The Nigeria Football Supporters Club has expressed shock at the death of its member and veteran sports journalist, Mr Ewedapo Akintunde, which occurred on Saturday. Akintunde, who retired from the News Agency of Nigeria in 2016 as an Assistant Editor-in-Chief, died in his residence in Itoki, Ogun, during an illness. He was aged 60 and
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As the global community marks the “International Day for Universal Access to Information” (IDUAI), the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria has announced the launch of the “The Nigerian Journalists Internet Rights Initiative (NJIRI)”. Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade said the main objectives of the NJIRI are to defend Internet and digital rights as well
Isioma Madike, a reporter with the New telegraph newspaper has won the reporter of the year award at this year Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award. The reporterwon on his investigative report, “Shonga Farms: The dream of Zimbabwean Whites’’, which seek to reveal the happenings at the Shonga farm project believe to have been a dead
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National Association of Nigerian Campus Editors NANCE, is set to hold her 2017 convention at the National Union of Journalists NUJ Secretariat Hall, Oke Ilewo Ile-iwe iroyin Abeokuta Ogun State. The Convention, which is expected to hold on the 6th and 7th of October 2017, which would comprise about 300 campus editor across the country. Campus
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The heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), an international NGO under the UN ECOSOC (United Nation Economic and Social Council) says it’s planning to establish a news platform as a website concentrating on peace-related issues, and also will be taking account of solutions offered by professional journalists. Mr. Ian Seo, Chief Manager of
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