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Shake-up at The Authority

New appoint­ments in the editorial and marketing departments of The AUTHORITY newspapers has been approved by the Chairman / Publish­er of newspapers, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah. In the editorial changes which take immediate effect, Mr. Joe Nwank­wo, the pioneer Executive Director of Publications, has been re-designated as the Executive Director in charge of the South East

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Mujila wins 2015 Etisalat Literature prize

Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila has emerged the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature (http://Prize.Etisalat.com.ng) for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to win the prestigious Etisalat Prize,

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Akinnola Scholarship for children of deceased journalists

Six children of deceased journalists were on Thursday offered scholarships by the Richard Akinnola Foundation to support their education. Chairman of the Foundation, Mr. Richard Akinnola while presenting the scholarship of N100,000 each to the beneficiaries in Lagos said the gesture was meant to ameliorate the sufferings widows of the deceased journalists face having lost

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UN Women partners media on women’s rights, gender equality

The United Nations Women has  launched an innovative partnership with 35 leading media houses to galvanise attention and concrete action toward women’s rights and gender equality. The  compact was signed at the ongoing 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, holding at the UN Headquarters in New York. The leading media houses

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Winners emerge in Screenplay writing competition

Winners have emerged in the first edition of the Screenplay writing competition organised by the department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic and Creative Village Productions, USA, a media firm owned by an alumnus of the department. Mass Communication students of the Polytechnic were asked to write a 15-minute television documentary screenplay on the “Sounds

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Nigeria, Al Jazeera to collaborate on training for journalists

Nigeria and the Doha-based international broadcaster Al Jazeera are to collaborate in the area of capacity building for journalists in the government-owned media organizations, especially the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The agreement followed a request made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to Al Jazeera to collaborate with the Ministry of

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