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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In the face of nuclear test, military conflict, terrorism and violent extremism that recently increases instability in the globe, the role of press with active engagement of journalists in peace building was discussed on September 17th in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), an international NGO under the UN
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Dr. Akinreti Olalere Qasim was born 10th October, 1967. He obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1979 from the Seventh Day Adventist Primary School, Ibadan. By 1985, he got his West African School Certificate, WASC from Loyola College. Two years later, in 1987, he got the Higher School Certificate (HSC) from Oduduwa College Ile
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism is calling for applications for the 12th edition of Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Nigerian journalists or team of journalists, full or part-time, with stories published between 4th October 2016 and 3rd October 2017, can apply for opportunity. This award seeks to honour journalism works from the
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