Cokey Ugonma, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Media Career Development Network (MCDN) is an accomplished journalist whose outstanding performance in the various positions she has held in her career confirms that women are as capable as their male counterparts in the media profession. In commemoration of the 2109 International Women’s Day, […]
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Nigerian Writer and PR Practitioner, Yishau Shuaib in a Facebook post on February 21 paid tribute to foremost Corporate Communication and Public Relations in Africa, Mallam Kabir Dangogo FNIPR on his 70th birthday. Shuaibu aptly described Dangogo as one of the finest and doyen of the profession in the post titled HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PR FELLOW @70 “He hardly celebrates
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Folashade Adebayo an award-winning journalist and former staff of The Punch recently launched a web resource that harnesses global and local scholarship opportunities for indigent but brilliant Nigerians and West Africans. In this piece, she explains the motivation for the project and what she hopes to achieve through www.coursefunds.com I have been a media entrepreneur for
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Editor of Daily Times Newspaper, Tony Amokeodo has been appointed as Senior Special Assistant to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. An experienced journalist for almost three decades, Amokeodo was former Sub-Assistant Editor in The Punch before joining the LEADERSHIP Newspapers in Abuja as the Group News Editor A
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At the end of September, 2018, Kufre Ekanem, the cerebral Corporate Affairs Adviser of Nigeria Breweries Plc, left the post he had held for the last five years, to try his hand on his dream project, running a multi dimensional Consulting firm, with a mandate to cover Culture, Marketing and Public Relations. Given the state of
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Journalist and Communication Strategist Yinka Oyebode has been appointed as the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State. Oyebode former Assistant Editor at The Punch and The Nation served in the same position during Fayemi’s first tenure as governor. He later served as Special Adviser on Media to Fayemi when he was
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A Kano based veteran journalist, public relations consultant and community leader, Prince Ajayi Memaiyetan clocked 76 years on October 5, 2018. A member of British Institutes of Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing, Prince Ajayi Memaiyetan was trained by the International Press Institute (IPI) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya under the sponsorship of Ford Foundation
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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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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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Seth Akintoye, Manager, Editorial Training and Language Control at Punch Nigeria Ltd writes on the exit of Akeem Lasisi from The Punch after fifteen years. Akeem Lasisi, another exponent of ideas, joins Ex-Punchers Club It was William Shakespeare who said in Julius Caesar: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood,
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