Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari last week granted an interview to Daily Telegraph, UK. The exclusive chat conducted by the paper’s Chief Foreign Correspondent; Colin Freeman would later be controversial. Adediwura Aderibigbe, a Lagos based multimedia and public relations specialist writes on the controversy The online media was awashed with different claims, such that many Nigerians, […]
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By Lekan Otufodunrin Based on what their lecturer had told them about print journalism, students of a Polytechnic who recently visited The Nation Newspapers on a study tour were not expecting to see anything glamourous at the company’s office. The students had been told that print journalists are not well paid like those in Advertising,
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By Lekan Otufodunrin (@lotufodunrin) One disservice any professional can do to him or herself in the present age of globalization is to be contented with being a local or national champion. More than ever before, thanks to new technology, it is now easier to be an international player in one’s field of endeavour. Instead of
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Lekan Otufodunrin writes on his experience with Mass Communication students who don’t know enough of the profession. I meet them regularly. They come looking for internship opportunities while in school or jobs when they graduate. “Do you read newspapers?” I usually ask whenever I decide to drill them. Their responses usually betrayed most of them
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By Lekan Otufodunrin I meet them regularly. They come looking for internship opportunities while in school or jobs when they graduate. “Do you read newspapers?” I usually ask whenever I decide to drill them. Their responses usually betrayed most of them no matter how hard they try to cover up for their “unpardonable sin” of
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Olayinka Oyegbile, Deputy Editor, The Nation on Sunday writes on his recent re-union with his former boss at The Guardian, Alhaji Rasaq Adedigba who “painstakingly taught practical sub editing, a world away from whatever theories learnt in our various institutions.” More than a decade and a half ago that we both parted ways in The
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Are women journalists marginalised? This was the topic of discussion at a round-table discussion organised by Journalism Clinic, a media training organisation in Lagos. Lande ABUDU reports on the outcome of the programme. “Gentlemen of the press” was the title of a Broadway play in 1928. The following year, it was adapted into an all-talking
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Vice President of the Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) writes on the courtesy visit of the association to Presidential spokesmen, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu. Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) sent a three-member delegation to pay a courtesy visit to the spokesmen of President Muhammdu Buhari. The delegation was led
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in this piece, pays tribute to his sister, Professor Foluke Ogunleye who recently died in a motor accident while on a visit to the country from Botswana where she is on sabbatical. It’s a day in British tradition dedicated to opening boxes of gifts received at
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By Sunday Osanyintuyi sundayosanyintuyi@gmail.com | @SundayOs As a trained journalist, I don’t take lightly issues around my first constituency, media. I handle media issues and industry related matters with great passion. It is so because our positions and thoughts have immense impacts on nation building. Among the first news items and opinions read yesterday was
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