By Rhoda Olorunfemi Winners have emerged for the 2016 Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) with The Nation topping with 13 prizes out of its 26 nominations. The New Telegraph won four prizes, Nigerian Tribune, three, while The Punch, Daily Trust and The Guardian won two Prizes each. Associate Editor, Olatunji Ololade, The Nation, won three awards; […]
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Ringier Africa’s new media publisher is expanding its news & media portfolio with the digital launch of Men’s Health and Women’s Health in Nigeria and Ghana. The Sub-Saharan Africa content partnership with the leading global fitness publishing brands will commence in December 2016. The expansion of _Women’s Health_ and _Men’s Health_
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in collaboration with ONE [3] and the Elliott family seek entries for the inaugural 2017 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling [4]. Mike served as a distinguished editor at The Economist, Newsweek and Time before becoming CEO of ONE. Earlier this year, he had spoken of his
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Winners have emerged for the 2016 edition of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJR) awards. Editor of the TheCable, Fisayo Soyombo, won the ‘Nigeria Investigative Journalist of the year’ for the Online category with his story “Forgotten Soldiers”. He beat Femi Owolabi also of TheCable’s, who was the runner up
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Four Nigerian journalists have emerged winners at the Zimeo Excellence in Media 2016 edition award held in Kenya last week. The awards was organised by the African Media Initiative. The Nigerian Journalists who won in various categories are: Hannah Ojo of The Nation, Animal Resources and Fish
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Winners have emerged for the 2016 edition of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) awards held on December 3 in Lagos. Majority of the winners were from The PUNCH and The NATION newspapers. Winners from The PUNCH included, Editor of The Punch, Mr. Martin Ayankola, won Editor of the Year,
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Journalists have been urged to support the campaign to totally eradicate malaria by year 2020 in the country. The call was made by the Director, Disease Control, Lagos state Ministry of Health, Dr. Eniola Erinosho, at the ‘Malaria to Zero’ campaign held in Lagos at which Huawei Technologies officially presented N50 million
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi The president, Nigerian Association of Woman Journalists (NAWOJ), Lagos state chapter, Hajia Sekinah Lawal, has called for all hands to be on the deck to ensure Journalists’ welfare and safety in Nigeria is guaranteed. This call was made at the second interactive journalists round table, held at the International Press Centre (IPC),
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By Rhoda Olorunfemi Kabiru Abdullahi Yusuf, the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Trust Media Limited and the Public and Private Development Centre, PPDC, a non-governmental organisation, will be honored with the Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence and Anti-corruption Defender Award respectively at the Eleventh Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting presentation
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By Adeola Ogunlade African Foundation for Peace and Love Initiatives (AFPLI) has concluded plans to stage the eighth edition of Peace Media Parley (PMP) holding on Monday, 5th of December 2016 at the International Press Centre, Ogba, Lagos State. The programme tagged Picture Africa for peace and development 2.0 with special focus on Sustainable Development
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