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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Bridget Chiedu Onochie, The Guardian, Abuja THOUGH interests of womenfolk are beginning to gain attention in the media, journalists are being urged to do in the areas of advocacy and awareness campaign. But since no one gives what he or she does not have; Ipas, a non-governmental organization that focuses on women’s sexual and reproductive
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Bridget Chiedu Onochie, The Guardian, Abuja THOUGH interests of womenfolk are beginning to gain attention in the media, journalists are being urged to do in the areas of advocacy and awareness campaign. But since no one gives what he or she does not have; Ipas, a non-governmental organization that focuses on women’s sexual and reproductive
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BY DR. BISI OLAWUNMI As members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors converge at Premier hotel, Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, for their biennial conference from February 28 to March 2, 2013, there is need to ponder the state of the Nigerian media. It has to be admitted that the Nigerian media enjoys the accolade
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Last week, I wrote about the death of late Tayo Awotunsin of Champion Newspapers who was killed along with his Guardian Newspaper colleague, Krees Imodibie in 1991 while covering the Liberian crisis. Their death is an example of one of the major hazards journalists face while on duty. Every profession has its hazards known to
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