Mr Jika Attoh, Executive Director, West Africa Democracy Radio, Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday called on the Nigerian media to make it a policy to promote youth candidacy ahead of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Attoh made the call at a training for journalists on “Mainstreaming Issues of Youth Candidacy and Youth Participation in the […]
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A group of journalists called “The Guardians” have been named as 2018 Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was among the journalists along with Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Reuters’ Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The Capital Gazette, the Maryland media company that lost five staffers to a mass shooting in June, also was included in the honor. The
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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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Editor of Daily Times Newspaper, Tony Amokeodo has been appointed as Senior Special Assistant to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. An experienced journalist for almost three decades, Amokeodo was former Sub-Assistant Editor in The Punch before joining the LEADERSHIP Newspapers in Abuja as the Group News Editor A
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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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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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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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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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By: Muneer Yaqub The Vice President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, South East Zone C, Chris Isiguzo, has been elected as the new National President of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Isiguzo, South East Bureau Editor of ThisDay Newspaper won the election at the 6th triennial conference of the Union held in Abeokuta,
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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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