The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is to establish a journalism training school to enhance the development of the profession in the country. The Managing Director of NAN, Mr. Buki Ponle, disclosed this during an interactive session with the Agency’s staff in Lagos on Wednesday. Ponle said that the proposed NAN journalism school would be located in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, where a […]
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A former Acting Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Jide Adebayo, is dead. Adebayo died in a Lagos hospital on Thursday at the age of 66 during a brief illness. Retired Maj.-Gen. Lasisi Abidoye, a close friend of Adebayo, also the President of Omu-Aran Development Association (ODA), confirmed this in a
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Mr. Olisa Egbunike, a veteran Nigerian journalist was former Assistant-Editor-In-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Editor of the Independent Newspaper. He was also Group General Manager of the Daily Times Nigeria. In this interview, he spoke on his journalism career, the media industry and offered advice for journalists and media owners. Excerpt below:
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Nine agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture now new Chief Executive Officers. The new appointees who will resume office from September 1 are Mr. Buki Ponle, Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria and Mr. Nura Sani Kangiwa as the Director-General, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism. Others are Mr. Francis
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Chairman, Board of Directors, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Malam Wada Maida, has been laid to rest on Tuesday at Gudu Cemetary, Apo District, Abuja. He reportedly died at 70 on Monday night after developing health complications. Maida served as the Chief Press Secretary to President Muhammadu Buhari while he was military head of state.
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The new Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Ephraims Sheyin has plans to reposition the organisation to meet modern challenges. Sheyin who disclosed his plans in a brief made available to Media Career noted that as a news agency, NAN used to pride itself as the agency that will always be the
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Mr Ephraims Sheyin has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). A graduate of Standford University and Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria, Sheyin started his journalism career on Dec. 11, 1989, as a Reporter with NAN. He moved through the ranks as Correspondent, Senior Correspondent, Principal Correspondent, Assistant Chief Correspondent, Chief Correspondent,
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The members of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) have elected, Mrs Ifeyinwa Omowole of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as its new president. Omowale, NAN Senior Editor, polled 469 votes to defeat her opponent, Mrs Fatima Abdulkareem, who scored 198 votes in the 2014 NAWOJ elections in Badagry, Lagos. In acceptance speech on Sunday,
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