The weeklong Social Media Week Lagos featuring innovative, creative and engaging use of social media tools begins on Monday, February 4 at the Landmark Event Centre, Lagos. Kenneth Affor reports that the theme for this year’s edition which is the seventh is STORIES: With Great Influence Comes Great Responsibility. The annual event first held in […]
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The Lagos Social Media Week is scheduled to hold from February 4-8, 2019. Find below details of five sessions anyone interested in maximising new media should attend. Art Of Monetizing Good Storytelling Through The Media The way a story is told, a message is delivered, or a narrative is navigated has changed dramatically over the
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An all-expense paid trip to cover the 7th edition of the Africa CEO Forum, a leading international conference for business influencers in the private sector is available for a journalist courtesy of the African Media Agency (AMA). AMA, a Pan African media relations and communications company, has launched a media competition to find the journalist
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A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benue state has been sacked over a fake report published on December 28. The reporter, Bridget Kyado, filed a report titled, “Akume, a great asset to Benue—-Ortom”, in which she claimed to have witnessed a birthday party for George Akume, a senator and was attended
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Two Nigerian non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the Institute for Media and Society (IMS) have been named among 15 “Global champions of free expression” shortlisted for the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. In a statement issued in London on Tuesday, the United Kingdom-based campaigning organization, Index on Censorship, said the
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The Nigerian Army has explained why its men and other security agencies stormed the premises of Media Trust (Publishers of Daily Trust) Headquarters in Abuja and regional office in Maiduguri on Sunday. Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usam in a statement said soldiers of the Nigerian Army along with elements of Nigeria Police
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the military invasion, occupation and takeover of the Abuja and Maiduguri offices of Daily Trust newspapers on Sunday. In a statement by its Programmes Director, Ayode Longe, MRA said the action was unlawful and unjustifiable and called on the Federal Government to take punitive action against the perpetrators in
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The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria has condemned the forceful closure of Daily Trust Newspapers’ head office in Abuja and the organisation’s Maiduguri office by military personnel on Sunday January 6, 2019. The IPC, according to a statement by its Director Lanre Arogundade said it considers the development as a fresh threat to freedom of the
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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Provost of Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, on his 60th birthday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari joined staff members and students of NIJ, Nigerian Union of Journalists, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, family and friends of
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The 60th birthday and book presentation for the Provost of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye will hold on Saturday, January 5. Guest Lecturer of the day is the Managing Director and Editor-In-Chief of The Nation Newspapers, Mr Victor Ifijeh who will speak on Survival of the Print in the digital Age.
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