The Board of Directors of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has announced the appointment of Mrs Motunrayo Alaka as Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the organisation. Chairman of the Board, Professor Ropo Sekoni who announced the appointment in a statement said the decision was taken a board meeting held on September 19, 2019. […]
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Editor-in-Chief of Legit.ng, Bayo Olupohunda has resigned his appointment and taken up the same role at Opera News, Nigeria. Olupohunda, award-winning digital journalist and author announced his movement in a facebook post on Sunday evening. “ I want to thank my editorial team for working really hard to make legit number one most visited online
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Blaise Aboh, graduate of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Technology tells his amazing story of becoming a citizen data scientist which involves exploring the impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Data Analytics and Journalism. My story as an Engineer who became known for Data Visualization and Storytelling cannot be told without mentioning my later father,
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The Board of Directors, Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited, publishers of New Telegraph Newspaper, on Tuesday approved the appointment of Mr. Ayodele Aminu as the new Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the media house. Aminu whose appointment takes immediate effect takes over from the former MD/EIC, Mrs Funke Egbemode who has been nominated as Commissioner-designate in Osun
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Lagos NUJ Chairman, Dr Qasim Akinreti pays tribute to Mr Fola Adeyemi who recently retired from the Lagos State Civil service. Effectively Monday, September 2, 2019, the curtains are drawn and files closed on a memorable and remarkable 35 years of public service at the Ministry of Information and Strategy for ‘Uncle Fola Adeyemi”. He came,
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Ejiro Umukoro “Lady E” is the Pioneer General Manager of MEGA 89.1 FM, Warri in Delta State. She has been working behind the scene with her team for months to set up the station that commenced operations July 1st 2019. In this report, she speaks about the station, its goals and vision and provides insight
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Assistant Director of Programmes, Lagos Operations of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Mrs Funke Treasure Durodola has voluntarily retired after 19 years of service. A valedictory session was held for her during the staff forum of Radio Nigeria, Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday. She was former General Manager of Radio Nigeria’s Radio One (103.
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The Assistant Editor, Politics of Sun Newspapers, Ismail Omipidan has been appointed as the new Chief Press Secretary of Osun State governor, Mr. Adeboyega Oyetola. Omipidan takes over from Mr. Adeniyi Adesina, who resigned to return to The Nation Newspaper as Editor of the Daily Paper. Adesina was Deputy Editor (News) when he was earlier
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Publisher of the defunct NEXT Newspaper, Dele Olojede is to launch AFAR, a monthly digital magazine soon. He announced the plan in an article titled The Road Home in the new edition of the African Leadership Initiative (ALI) Monthly Review The magazine according to Olojede, Pulitzer Prize winner, will be for long-form writing, covering the
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Fisayo Soyombo, Pioneer Editor of The Cable, former editor with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, now ‘Roving Editor’. in this interview with Media Career Development Network team speaks on investigative journalism and online media publishing in Nigeria We seem to have too many one-man websites all over the place. What do you think
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