MEDIA

Believe it or not, it was just 10 years ago – on 21 March 2006 – that Jack Dorsey set-up and sent the very first tweet on the new social media platform Twitter. Whilst his […]

•What was life like before email — electronic mail? Persons born in 2000 and later cannot even conceive it.  Those born in the last two decades of the 20th Century, the so-called dot.com generation, can […]

From Chris Wallace’s slides to Megyn Kelly’s flip-flop videos, Fox News was well-armed to take on Donald Trump on Thursday night. This time, he wouldn’t get away with vagaries about cutting waste and abuse. This […]

A head of the Easter celebration on March 25 through 28, popular digital TV platform, StarTimes Nigeria, has announced a slash in the price of its highest bouquet,  Unique (on digital terrestrial) and Super (on […]

DStv is going on a binge of self-serenading; and appears quite pleased with itself!  What would celebratory adverts not do: turn a regulator’s sanction into some self-purloined triumph? The facts: The Consumer Protection Council (CPC), […]

Facebook Inc.Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg vowed to rid his site of hate speech against migrants and lauded Germany’s leadership in the refugee crisis as part of an effort to win over those critical of […]

We have to encourage indigenous practitioners to be part of our larger academic community, not just studying what they produce; but creating a dialogue of respect and returning back to our community our own products […]

The U.S. government, acknowledging its limited success in combating Islamic extremist messaging, is recruiting tech companies, community organizations and educational groups to take the lead in disrupting online radicalization. The change in strategy, which took […]

African Leadership Magazine, ALM, has nominated former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Bola Tinubu, National Leader, All Progressives Congress and Dr. Kofi Annan; Former UN Secretary General, among others for the magazine’s 2015 Person of […]

Social media has been blocked in Uganda on the day of presidential elections to stop people “telling lies”, President Yoweri Museveni has said. Mr Museveni, 71, is seeking to extend his 30-year rule, in a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appointed Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media. Mr. Ogunlesi, who is a renowned blogger and journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004, and obtained an […]

So Daar Communications, the owners of African Independent Television (AIT), can eat the humble pie.  On February 5, the company made the headlines with the news that it had apologised to the national leader of […]

The Nigerian press has an impressive record of which it can be justifiably proud. In the colonial era it was in the vanguard of the long and difficult struggle to rid our country of the […]

I was in Abuja on Tuesday, the day after the Minister made this announcement. As usual, I strolled out of the hotel to buy newspapers. But, from a short distance away, I could see that the […]

The Director General of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Dr. Ladan Salihu, has cautioned operators of online and social media in general to pay attention to the credibility of the information they put […]

NIGERIANS are becoming ever more creative in the way they employ social media as tools of mass communication. In terms of their engagement of everyday reality and narration of contemporary events, the virtual world is […]