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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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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The website of the African Women in Media (AWiM) was has been launched. Founder of the group Dr Yemisi Akinbobola announced the launch on Monday, August 10, 2018 ” Over the last couple of months I have been working with my team @flakey_phil and Bamidele Ogunleye to bring you the @africanwomeninthemedia website. This is just the
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Online journalists and bloggers engaged interested in reporting governance and electoral issues ahead the 2019 elections have been invited by the International Press Centre (IPC) to apply to apply to attend a two-day workshop on conflict sensitive reporting. The workshop, supported by the EU under Component 4b: Support to the media of the EU Support
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The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has welcomed the release of a reporter of Premium Times Samuel Ogundipe on bail on Friday but demanded that all charges against him be dropped. Ogundipe was arrested by police on August 14 after the his newspaper, the Premium Times,
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