MEDIA

Journalism is an interesting and exciting profession. Perhaps, it is in keeping with the exciting aspect that The Economist, a weekly newsmagazine published in London since 1843, recently focused its binoculars on the city of […]

One major weakness in the coverage of elections, to which international observers have repeatedly drawn attention to, is the blatant misuse of state-owned media for propaganda purposes. For example, the European Union Observers’ Report on […]

October 19 marked the 29th anniversary of the assassination of Dele Giwa, crusading journalist and founding chief executive of the Newswatch, in what remains one of the most horrific acts of preternatural malevolence ever carried […]

ONE year after you won the case to recover Newswatch from Jimoh Ibrahim, how has it been? It is exactly one year since we won the case and the other party, the losers are appealing […]

Several fascinating things happened in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election.  For me, among the most significant was the support offered to the eventual winner, Muhammadu Buhari by two journalists he sent to jail as military head […]

The Nation Editorial Board’s Chairman, Sam Omatseye, has sued The Sun Publishing Limited and  Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos for alleged defamation. He is demanding N2 billion damages. […]

For their innumerable contributions to journalism, the founding Chairman of The Punch newspapers, late Chief Olubunmi Aboderin, and the publisher of The Vanguard newspapers, Chief Sam Amuka-Pemu were on Friday honoured at the prestigious RockCity […]

On Saturday, two journalists of your darling newspaper, The Punch, Mr. Arukaino Umukoro and Mr. Femi Asu, were declared winners in the CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards. The prestigious ceremony, which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, […]

A former Special Adviser on Media to the former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, has said many journalists failed to appreciate the delicate and sensitive nature of his job, as they pestered him to […]

The Director General, National Broadcasting Commission, Emeka Mbah, has said that the process of reviewing the Nigerian broadcasting code has begun, with the NBC seminar which started at the Kakanfo Inn and Conference Centre, Ibadan, […]

Mr. Dada Aladelokun, an Assistant Editor with The Nation newspapers, is dead. He died in the early hours of Friday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after a protracted illness. In a statement by […]

Renowned actuary and former Chairman of Punch Newspapers Chief Ajibola Ogunshola will chair the formal presentation of a study of media leadership produced by a media scholar at the Pan Atlantic University. The Special Adviser […]

Ihave known for a while now that things are not always what they look like at first, but I don’t seem to have succeeded in applying it to books by Mike Awoyinfa and his late […]

…I’ll carry on with his legacies –Awoyinfa …Publishers should ensure journalists are not owed salaries –Osoba By Chinelo Obogo President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday showered praises on the late Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Publishing […]

Rave FM, a newly-licensed radio station, will begin operations early next month as the first youth-oriented and urban digitally-equipped radio station in Osun State. It will operate on frequency 91.7 FM.

Nigerian media is gradually shaped by sensationalism and simplification: publications appeal to people’s “lower instincts” and this “dumbing down” in which politicians are wiling accomplices as I said last week, is fraught with xenophobia and […]

Setting up a blog is relatively simple. However, sourcing for articles, news, photographs and other content to attract traffic to it is not a child’s play. To achieve success in blogging, one may have to […]

Some Al Jazeera journalists had their press passes revoked by Gambia’s Ministry of Information and Communication on Tuesday, according to media sources. Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has ruled for 20 years. On 1 January he […]

Social media is gradually becoming part of lives. Soon, the internet and social media will be something one cannot do without in a day. Today, most millennial have their mobile phones with 6-feet distance from […]