Review of Ladbone: A Life in Print, edited by Dapo Olorunyomi, by Kunle Ajibade, Executive Editor/Director of TheNEWS/PM NEWS This book, Ladbone: A Life in Print, edited by Dapo Olorunyomi, the publisher of Premium Times, is a collection of 85 essays in honour of Oyinlade Bonuola, one of the original and creative minds in […]
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Today, a typical young Nigerian creative’s social media bio or resume is bursting with slashes and commas. There you’ll see: writer, designer, chef, MC, and more. You’ll find design portfolio links, voiceover reels, and videos showing the same person baking a cake. And then you wonder: na only you waka come? You can’t blame
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Professor of Journalism and Development Communication, Lagos State University, (LASU), Tunde Akanni on the occasion of this year’s World Teachers Day, pays tribute to beloved pioneer leader at the LASU School of Communication now Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Professor Jimi Kayode. Beyond being officially celebrated, it is not certain that many of
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Jennife Piette, Strategic Communications & External Relations expert who was a former intern at the Journalists Against AIDS writes a tribute to the late founder, Omololu Falobi on the 20th remembrance of his death. He was a builder, a trailblazer, tech savvy and entrepreneurial. Yet he was humble and very kind. He negotiated the
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O’Femi Kolawole, Founder/CEO, POSTERITY MEDIA, who served as Programme Associate, Research and Communication, Journalists Against AIDS, (JAAIDS) between 2006 and 2008 pays tributes to the late founder of JAAIDS, Omololu Falobi. October 5, 2006 remains one of those dates I will never forget. It was the day Omololu Falobi, my boss, the Founder and
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“All of us have to choose to respond to the challenges of our own times; for me, the challenge is HIV/AIDS.” ~ Omololu Falobi He was praised for his dauntless drive for advocacy against HIV/AIDS. He was loved by his family, friends, colleagues, and the international community. Through information dissemination, his organization JAAIDS led
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Ofili Chukwunonso writes on the challenge of knowing who to trust when seeing is no longer believing in the era of AI and deepfakes. In 2022, a video surfaced showing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling Ukrainian troops to surrender during Russia’s invasion. It was fake. In early April 2023, a leaked audio controversy emerged involving
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Getting former President Olusegun Obasanjo to write the foreword to her book marking her fifty years in the media is a big deal, which veteran broadcaster and communication specialist, Mrs Bimbo Oloyede, should be proud of. It is, however, a gamble, as Chief Obasanjo noted in the foreword for the book, launched in Lagos last
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Nonso Ofili writes on the anatomy of a clout cycle in marketing and public relations “…because good news can wait; but when you have bad news, awake me immediately, for then there’s not a moment to be lost.” –Napoleon Bonaparte Sometimes it starts with a leaked voice note. Other times, it is two
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Opening remarks by the CEO of Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, Mr Dapo Olorunyomi at the AI, Platform Accountability and the Future of Journalism: Building a Fair and Inclusive Content Economy workshop for newsroom leaders. There is a story about how the information of the world economy was built. We understand that story
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