Smart and resilient are great adjectives to describe a person or an entity that knows how to get the job done admirably. These words more than qualify the giant strides that Lagos State is recording […]
Five years ago today, I wrote a birthday tribute on these pages to Nigeria’s one and only self-styled Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. At 75 today, he is the youngest living former military head […]
ABUJA – A former Prelate of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, Monday, said that the All Progressive Congress (APC) administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari is not fit to rule the country. […]
If you are among those who believe that sentences should always have sweet rhythms and flow like a calm morning stream, you will often have problems with Reported Speech. The same thing happens if you […]
Abuja, Nigeria – The U.S. government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that it will be providing more than $37 million in additional humanitarian assistance to people affected by the ongoing conflict […]
In an era in which people giving thanks usually celebrate themselves and receive gifts from others, retired 90-year-old Dr. Olusola Ajolore used his 90th birthday thanksgiving to appreciate his housemaid of three decades. Dr. Ajolore, […]
In a keynote address at the US National Association of Broadcasters convention in May 1961, Newton Minow, the then commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission described television as “a vast wasteland.”With its dominant fare of […]
So far, so good. That is the story of The Nation FOR centuries, newspapers have morphed into a major part of the human experience. As professors and philosophers of communication have noted, they represent history […]
Cable Network News (CNN) is set to establish a multi-platform operation in Lagos, Nigeria. Stephanie Busari, who has been at the cable and satellite television channel for eight years, will be the inaugural supervising producer, […]
James Entwistle assumed duties in Abuja as United States’ ambassador in the country on October 28, 2013. After almost three years working in the world’s most populous black nation, Mr. Entwistle is counting down to […]
I’m not as heartless as the headline of this piece suggests. I was very sad when speculations of the sack of editorial and other staff of a national newspaper were officially confirmed on Wednesday with […]
The media is in love with titillating, salacious news stories which pander to the voyeurism of the masses. The latest of such is the alleged sexual misdemeanoor of three House of Representatives members during their […]
Today, I wish to share my perspective on a professional issue that I’m deeply passionate about: the need to breed a new crop of journalists knowledgeable and courageous enough to dig deeply into knotty issues […]
I focus on the media on days when I want readers to relax. I mean days when I want them to not sit on the edges of their chairs reading serious international issues that I […]
There was rancour in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Thursday, following an armed invasion of Rhythm FM radio station, owned by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, by some members of the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide. The angry […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the Nigerian media as one of the most vibrant in Africa and indeed across the world, while assuring that the government will not do […]
Recently, I read the memoirs of Lawrence Ari Fleischer. Fleischer was a former White House Press Secretary for a former United States President, George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003. In his memoirs […]
In 1998, some Nigerian political leaders who described themselves as likeminded decided to set up political parties as channels for taking-over government from the departing military administration. The most formidable of such parties was known […]
The Lagos State Government has announced plans to establish information centres across the state to increase residents’ access to information. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, stated this on Thursday during a […]
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