Minister urges CSOs, media to remind Nigerians of treasury looters
•Anti-Corruption Situation Room (ACSR) launched in Abuja THE Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and media practitioners have been urged to ensure that the citizenry do not forget the evil committed by...
View ArticleJournalists urged to adopt positive narrative for peace, development
Journalists have been urged to use positive narrative and perspective to engender the peace and development of Nigeria as an integral part of Africa. The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),...
View ArticleMedia stakeholders set up committees on 2018 IPI World Congress
Preparations for Nigeria’s hosting of the 2018 World Congress and General Assembly of the International Press Institute (IPI) have kicked off with the constitution of nine planning committees. The...
View ArticleMinister to media: don’t mock anti-graft war
Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed has appealed to the media not to mock the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war, urging media practitioners to support the administration’s...
View ArticleMedia under-developing Nigerian politics?
Remember Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, that seminal work first published in 1972, which audacious thinking set the academia on fire? In the Nigerian university campus of the 1980s,...
View ArticleMedia urged to drive urban agenda narratives
Following Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, that took place in Quito Ecuador 2016, and the emerging need to further build the capacity of the...
View ArticleCorruption and the media
It is obvious that the core value for the establishment of the media has completely changed over the years. Before now, media’s motto was to educate people and bring out the issues in front of the...
View ArticleNigerian media aides and the Tantalus plague (2)
•Mutations of the journalist in the corridors of power A notable politician/public officer dismisses fear of backlash over his persistent rape and impregnation of minors. He brags to a friend in...
View ArticleWest Africa Media Excellence Awards holds Saturday
THE maiden edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Awards will hold on Saturday. The awards, according to the Executive Director of MFWA, Sulemana Braimah, are intended to inspire and promote...
View ArticleNigerian media aides and the Tantalus plague (1)
•Mutations of the journalist in the corridors of power Man loses wife and three kids to vehicle accident caused by bad road. Media aide justifies governor’s refusal to repair the road, claiming there...
View Article‘Media should defend democracy’
Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has urged the media to be mindful of the information they send to the public to safeguard peace, security and democracy. He gave the advice in Port Harcourt, Rivers...
View ArticleOlubadan urged to check media aide against inflammatory statements
A Socio-cultural group, Oyo Development Initiative (ODI), has urged the Olubadan of Ibadan to caution his media aide for allegedly using abusive, derogatory and denigrating words in reaction to issues,...
View ArticleNGE, media and democracy
It is often said that everyone is a leader until tried. Either correct or incorrect, events over the years have proved that the ability to lead, perhaps, a group, corporation or country, is not...
View ArticleQuit Notice: Sheath your sword, Yoruba leaders tell groups
Yoruba Traditional Council in the North has called on warring factions on the quit notice by Arewa Youths Coalition on the Igbos to sheath their swords and approach the issue with all sense of...
View ArticleMinister: media must avoid divisive contents
Minister for Information and Culture Lai Muhammed has expressed fears of the media being used as a vehicle for disintegration rather than unity. The minister was worried that the items of disunity,...
View Article‘Ways to benefit from new media’
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, gave the keynote speech at the 10th Jackson Annual Lecture Series organised by the Department of...
View ArticleNigerian media celebrate World Music Day
•Okoroji advises on songs that unite From music of yesteryear to contemporary songs across different genres, and talks that center on sound and beats, radio and television stations in the country,...
View ArticleWorrying state of the media
The restructuring at the Continental Broadcasting Services Limited, owners of Television Continental (TVC) and Radio Continental, which led to the sacking of 145 staff should not have come as a...
View ArticleTOTAL RECALL MEDIA BRANCHES OUT
AFTER seven years of operating in the Nigerian entertainment space, Total Recall Media Limited, a member of T.Recall Group (Nigeria, South Africa and United States), has announced the official...
View ArticlePTI students tour The Nation, other media houses
To learn the rudiment of print and broadcast journalism, members of Press Club of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun, Delta State, were in Lagos, last week, on excursion to five media...
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