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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Our intern from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Olajumoke Jegede writes the various books and resources owned by our Executive Director in our office library. What is a book on business doing on the shelf of a veteran journalist’s library? Quite surprising, but not much of a great surprise to me. As I stood in
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Being a review of The Vanguard Chronology: 40 years of Nigeria’s leading Tabloid by GBEMIGA Ogunleye, fnge, at the launch of the book on Wednesday, July 19, 2026 in Lagos. Preamble I thank the editors of this publication and the Vanguard alumni for this honour and privilege to undertake this task. Unknown to them, I
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Peter Daniella Chiamaka of Mountain Top University Ibafo, Ogun State, writes on her first week as an intern at the Media Career Development Network. I came back from school and asked my parents to help me find an internship placement, but my mum said I can’t be going out; that instead, I should just register
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