The federal government on Thursday directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to sanction any radio or television station that broadcasts hate speech. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, issued the directive in Abuja at […]
Reading through the presidential broadcast, however, one cannot but express a sense of utter disappointment. This is a president who virtually sneaked out of Nigeria, who breached his own self-declaration of transparency, by keeping Nigerians […]
The truth is that the dominant narrative out of the continent is not positive. Of course, this is not the same as arguing that there are no positive stories out of the place. It is […]
As President Muhammadu Buhari’s aircraft taxied along the runway of the Abuja International Airport on Saturday, a presenter at one of Nigeria’s popular Pidgin radio stations announced to his listeners: “The president don show.” This […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has announced that it would fine broadcast stations a sum of N500,000 for any perceived hate speech expressed by callers during phone-in programs. The new rule, which will take effect […]
On this day, last year, I was declared wanted by the Nigerian Army. The official release from the Military High Command was publicised in international and local media. The military release declaring me wanted was […]
In this second part of his extensive interview with Feyi Fawehinmi, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dele Olojede, speaks on why NEXT newspapers, which he started in 2008 with a grand vision to beam the light for cleaning up and […]
A Kano-based journalist has said he turned down a N700,000 bribe to kill a story in order to change impressions about Nigerian journalists. Nasiru Zango, who anchors In Da Ranka (If You Are Alive), a […]
Journalism’s roles in national development and democracy place an unusual demand on its practitioners to be forward looking. It is through this way that journalism can continuously add value to the society. A well-known role […]
The silent war in the media is very interesting to watch from the sidelines! It is difficult monitoring news around the clock –almost- but it could be fun. The war is between stand-alone online newspapers […]
The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) network centre on Ahmadu Bello way in Victoria Island, Lagos, has been shut owing to the flood which accrued from the rainfall of the early hours of Saturday. Major streets […]
The Nigerian presidency, in what appears a desperate move to dilute the impact of a statement by the country’s chief law officer, deliberately lied to the public, PREMIUM TIMES can report. During a question and […]
The Kaduna State Police Command on Thursday apologised to Ibraheema Yakubu, a journalist brutalised by police officers during a clash between Shiites and members of a Kaduna community. Mr. Yakubu, who was arrested while covering […]
The Lagos State Government says it will establish a radio station in each of the 20 local government areas of the state within the next one year. It said the initiative was to deepen communication […]
It is my privilege and honour to give the give the keynote speech at the maiden edition of CKN News Annual Lecture which thematic focus requires us to reflect on the role of the social […]
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, director-general of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says a media station, Biafra Television, is transmitting illegally on Nigeria airwaves. The TV station is purportedly owned by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). He […]
…the professional thing for a journalist to do would be to painstakingly map the situation and send out through a report, both a warning and an alarm to members of the public. What we have […]
The management of Television Continental (TVC) says it sacked 145 workers to concentrate on key areas of its business. In a statement on Friday, the management said the laying of the staff was in the […]
Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has raised concern over the violence against journalists in Nigeria in the past 18 months and reminded the Federal Government of its obligations regarding media freedom, including ensuring that state governors […]
DAAR Communications Plc, owner of AIT, has apologised to Mustapha Jokolo, former aide de camp of President Muhammadu Buhari, over a defamatory documentary it aired. On January 24, AIT broadcast a documentary entitled, ‘The Real […]
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