Kelechi Amakoh writes of the feat by Toyosi Ogunleye, Editor, Sunday Punch who has won six awards this year with her three part investigative story, The rich also cry. This is the time of the year when excellence and hard work in the media is being rewarded. Time of the year when persons and organisations […]
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Journalists have the responsibility to change and learn and evolve. It’s your responsibility to not stand still, to not get behind so that you won’t be replaced by an intern or recent graduate. And you have to learn from young people because they help you understand the new stuff. Esther Vargas, founder of Clases de
By Lekan Otufodunrin, The Nation The first ever Impact Journalism Day- a unique project involving 20 leading newspapers across the world publishing dedicated sections packed with creative solutions to global issues on the same day- was marked on Saturday, June 22, 2013. The project, initiated by Sparknews in collaboration with media partners, seeks to kick
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By Sabella Abidde (sabidde@yahoo.com), The Punch Just before 5:00am on Sunday, April 28, 2013, I came off bed to read one of Nigeria’s greatest minds tells us that: “If you are a regular reader of this column, you might like to know that this is the final time I will be writing it in this
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By Olatunji Dare, The Nation. In the past six months, the fraternity of Nigerian journalists has lost four of its ablest, all of them of my generation. Not to the lucrative field of Public Relations or corporate communications, or to the political bureaucracy, with its delusions of power and influence, but to the cold, undiscriminating
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Thirty years after writing a weekly column for The Guardian Newspapers, Sonala Olumhense writes a final piece in which he laments the decay of the Nigerian state. If you are a regular reader of this column, you might like to know that this is the final time I will be writing it in this form.
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By Reuben Abati Our attention has been drawn to a statement by the Leadership Newspaper titled “Statement on the Arrest and Detention of LEADERSHIP journalists” (April 10), the latest episode in the matters arising from the same newspaper’s publication of an alleged “Presidential Directive” which we have had cause to disavow because the basis of the
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By Dayo Emmanuel For long, media practice in Nigeria has been more of a sacrifice than a job that has much benefit. Like the teaching profession whose reward is often said to be in heaven, the reward of journalists sometimes can be said to be in the celestial since journalists sometime do not get full
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Eric Osagie, The Sun I was not in Ibadan last Friday, but my heart was there. At the ancient city, described by Poet J.P Clark, as ‘running splash of rust and gold, flung and scattered on seven hills like broken china in the sun,’ over 250 editors from the electronic, print and online, gathered to
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By Mike Awoyinfa, The Sun Newspaper. ( March 2, 2013) Why this belated tribute? Why haven’t I written about you long before now? It is because I still don’t believe that you are gone. How can you just go like that? How can you simply exit from the arena, Mr. Arena? Something tells me you
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