At 79, the death of our beloved father, mentor, guardian and senior colleague in international radio broadcasting was announced of Saturday 27th July,2024. For 54 years, Yusuf Lawal Saulawa bestrides the broadcasting world like a colossus. He started the broadcasting career as a TV Cameraman, Presenter, Announcer, Reporter and rose to the position of General […]
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What are the options open to journalists when their active newsroom days are over? There are various options based on what many journalists have moved on to doing after exiting from practicing journalism intentionally or due to various circumstances. The present varied non-journalism work of some former staff of The Punch Newspapers who shared stories
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Abdulwarees Solanke, Deputy Director, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development Department Voice of Nigeria writes on the retirement of the Director of News of Voice of Nigeria, Austeen Elewodalu. The last Board of Management meeting of Voice of Nigeria which turned out to be a Valedictory for Mr. Austeen Elewodalu was a most emotional one
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Aisha Wakaso, the organiser of the Aisha Wakaso Prize for Young Female Journalists is the Special Adviser, Print Media to the Niger State Governor. An accomplished communications professional, Aisha has more than 16 years of experience in journalism and public relations. She is renowned as a skilled media strategist and a fervent advocate for women’s
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Veteran journalist and publisher, Mrs Tola Adenle has recalled the Evergreen and Loving memory of her late husband Dr Oladepo Adeoye Alao-Adenle who died on May 22, 2021. In a post-humous anniversary message on behalf of the children, grandchildren and extended Adenle Family of Osogbo, Mrs Adenle said the family continues to feel the enormity
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Muhammed Akinyemi, popularly known as PrincelyX, is a seasoned award-winning Nigerian journalist who has traversed different roles of journalism and newsroom product management. He has led innovative projects in different newsrooms and is presently Media Advisor with the Media Development Investment Fund’s (MDIF) NAMIP. In this interview with our correspondent, Noah Aderoju, he spoke about
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Two Nigerians have been selected for the inaugural AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Award winning Nigerian journalists and founder of FactMattersNG, Hannah Ajakaiye and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID)’s Head of Innovation, Monsur Hussain were among the cohort of 25 journalists, media leaders, academics,
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Former Assistant Editor of the Punch Newspaper, Nike Popoola has emerged the overall winner for the 9th edition of the Pan African ReInsurance Journalism Awards. She was announced at the 2024 award ceremony which coincides with the awarding organisation, Continental Reinsurance’s annual CEO Summit held April 12 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe According to a statement
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Mansir Muhammed, a GIS/OSINT specialist at HumAngle was named among the winners of the 2024 Sigma Awards celebrating excellent data journalism projects globally for his report published alongside an extensive investigation by HumAngle in collaboration with New Lines Magazine. In this interview with our correspondent, Noah Aderoju, Muhammed spoke about his work as a technologist/journalist
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Rotimi Sankore, an accomplished Journalist, media trainer, development expert and human rights advocate is dead. A statement by his family signed by Deji Dosunmu confirmed that he died on Friday, April 12th after a hard fight with cancer surrounded by loved ones. Sankore who until his death was Executive Director/Editor in Chief of the Africa
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