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‘Local, community-focused journalism will solve Nigeria’s media problem’

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Veteran journalist and media scholar, Dr Richard Ikiebe has advocated the adoption of local and community-focused journalism as the solution to the problems facing the Nigerian media. According to him, local media, serving relevant communities with the needed content through a model customised for their indigenous realities will prevent media outfits from making the same […]

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The journalism of our future

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Fatemah Farag, Founder and Director of Welad ElBalad Media, Egypt underlines the vital role local journalism plays in empowering communities and sustaining democracy – and emphasises how they continue to provide critical, reliable information despite multiple, increasing challenges. Deep in the south of Egypt a young woman once told me “Being a journalist at a local

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Why Journalism matters

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Journalism entails many things and is generally recognised as vital worldwide. It has become a tool to evaluate freedom and democracy in social institutions. Journalism also covers information dissemination, vigilance, and criticism and creates a forum for public debate on controversial national issues. Journalism is decoding significant information about society – news about the many

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ILD24: Nigeria media and the enduring responsibility of public literacy

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Historically, in Nigeria, media and public literacy are a union that can’t be divorced. For decades now, right from the pre-independence and early independence era and even during the regional government time, public broadcasting media have mostly been used for education and literacy skills dissemination aside from news and information sharing. A lot of learning

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EDITORIAL: Realities of unbundling Mass Communication

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As part of the repositioning and revitalisation of university education in Nigeria, five years ago,   the National Universities Commission (NUC), had announced the unbundling of Mass Communication as a degree programme into several separate degree programmes, thereby, making it a full Faculty.  According to the then Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar

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Trauma of human-trafficking

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Our intern from the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos reviews We Are Priceless, a novel on human trafficking by Juliana Francis, investigative reporter, mentor, trainer and gender advocate.  Human life is supposed to be priceless because children are a precious gift from God. Unfortunately, those who engage in human trafficking don’t think so.

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