On July 3, 2024, UNICEF, Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) and the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) met with some editors in Lagos in continuation of the partnership to protect children’s rights and welfare with the discussion focused on polio and malnutrition in Nigeria. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) earlier signed on April 19 by […]
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Considering the intense nature of journalism work that sometimes requires working round the clock, journalists should be very conscious of their well-being and health. Media work stresses that journalists should know enough of the various health risks they are susceptible to and promptly take necessary precautions or treatment. This is however not the case with
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If many journalists have their way, they would prefer not to have opted for a career in journalism, including those who are graduates of Mass Communication. They wish they had an opportunity in another industry sector rather than the media considering the perception that journalism is a poor-paying job with not much prospect of becoming
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The 2023 Nigeria Media Capacity Development Report, published by the Media Career Development Network is out. This report, according to the Executive Director of the MDCN, Lekan Otufodunrin, is created to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of media training in Nigeria. However, the 2023 report, the 4th edition, captured more as it
On Sunday, June 23, the Publisher of Church Times Nigeria, Gbenga Osinaike called out a national Newspaper and other unnamed Online platforms over the republishing of his exclusive content without crediting him. According to Osinaike, he wrote an exclusive story with the title “Adeboye: I will no longer take attack on me lightly” published on
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Congratulations to all our colleagues and other journalists I have seen online celebrating their induction as members of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) Becoming a certified member of NIPR is a good way of having additional career opportunities along with being an experienced journalist. Even without being a member of NIPR, many journalists
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Communication is the lubricant that oils the wheel of relationship. If we allow this oil to dry up, we get the wheel locked. If we this oil becomes sludge, the wheel grinds to a halt. Granted that as human beings, fallibility is our common trait because to Allah, God almighty alone can we ascribe perfection
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While assessing essays submitted for the recent 2nd Aisha Wakaso Award for Young Female Journalists in Niger State, six of the twelve entries were disqualified because they were found to be 100 percent written with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The initiator of the award, Wakaso who is the Special Adviser, Print Media to the state governor
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First-prize entry for the Aisha Wakaso Award for Young Female Journalists on the theme of Paving the way for gender equality in media representation. The media is a mirror of society but what happens when the media paints an incomplete picture? This is where the issue of gender equality in media arises. Women have played
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“Command your stage” is a 272-page introspection, interrogation and examination of the art and science of public speaking and contextual presentation written by our dear author, broadcaster and speech presentation expert Mrs. Bimbo Oloyede. The book is packaged and delivered in twelve chapters of precise, descriptive, unambiguous free-flowing prose laced with intellectual sagacity and journalistic expertise so
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