THE first time I heard about the global journalism book, 50 World Editors, was mid-2012. I had followed the authors, Mike Awoyinfa and the late Dimgba Igwe, to interview one of the Nigerian media icons […]
South African multinationals operating in Nigeria are fast gaining notoriety for shylock practices. Ask the average Nigerian MTN subscriber what he feels about the telecoms giant that has found incredible fortune here and you won’t […]
It’s been seven years since our father, Alhaji Isma’il Babatunde Jose, left this sinful world. His legacies shall continue to be with those of us he left behind. The greatest thing he would be remembered […]
Dr. Reuben Abati heralded the nation with the tale of his phones not ringing anymore in an obvious attempt to weep up sentiments from the public who was hitherto his constituency. He has found himself […]
I read with interest the article written by the former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity Dr. Reuben Abati titled “The phones no longer ring.” The article which generated mixed reactions […]
THE Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, witnessed a gathering of the cream of the Nigerian media on Thursday, July 30, 2015 in celebration of an icon of print journalism, Mr. Sam Amuka, publisher of […]
LAST Thursday, Nigerian media professionals and others within the pen fraternity gathered to celebrate and honour one of their own, a man widely regarded as a leading icon and doyen of Nigerian journalism and one […]
While we await more memoirs of “yesterday’s men and women”, of whom Abati is not a model one, announcing that not every Nigerian is amnesic becomes necessary. Not all are gullible. And for all who […]
It’s been seven years since our father Alhaji Isma’il Babatunde Jose left this sinful world. His legacies shall continue to be with those of us he left behind. The greatest thing he would be remembered […]
A writer writes late into sunset, into darkness, into old age. So I learnt. This is how the poet Dylan Thomas puts it: “Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn […]
THERE is no gainsaying the fact that some media proprietors in Nigeria are now wearing an unenviable toga of ‘debtor media houses’ thereby competing with some state governments over their abysmal failure to pay their […]
On Tuesday, the Nigerian Union of Journalists protested on the premises of ThisDay Newspapers in Apapa, Lagos, to demand the nine months of salaries owed to its members. The strikers also lamented ThisDay’s failure to […]
You wish, very earnestly, that your pay-TV subscription would not run while you are not watching. You are not alone. Almost every pay-TV subscriber would want it that way. That would make us use our […]
In this job of speaking for others, the spokesman must get his timing right. The role of a spokesman, especially for the government, has come under scrutiny since President Muhammadu Buhari announced the appointment […]
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has lent its support for the ongoing industrial action, embarked upon by the workers of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and ThisDay Newspapers over the non-payment of salaries in the […]
In the final year of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, hardly was anyone not fed up with his lackluster performance. When therefore the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) smartly designed the catchy phrase ‘change’ the wind […]
Angry workers barricaded the entrance of the station with drums and other items in order to cripple the activities of both the local radio station of 106.5 and Africa independent Television station. Customers had to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has paid glowing tribute to the chairman and publisher of Vanguard Media Limited, Chief Sam Amuka-Pemu as he turns 80 on Saturday, June 13, 2015. “This event provides an opportunity for me […]
Inasmuch as I admire Mr. Femi Adeshina, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, The Sun newspapers, for his resourcefulness, professionalism and humility, I am at not sure on whether to congratulate or sympathise with him on his reported […]
For watchers of the Nigerian political scene, the only controversy that followed the election of General Muhammed Buhari to the exalted office of the President of the Federal Republic erupted from unlikely quarters. It was […]
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