MEDIA

I was invited here to speak around the theme: Effective and Influential Presentation/ Performance for Progress. If that theme sounds confounding at first blush, it was clarified later: “Please let us know more on how […]

Media experts at the third yearly Integrity Icon Summit raised issues aimed at bringing to an end, negative stories, as well as setting agenda for good reportage of society. While decrying the negative use of […]

A video of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, mocking a traditional ruler is currently trending online. Wike talked down on the monarch during a quarterly meeting at the government house. The governor had asked […]

If you are a Nigerian, news in town is that of the reading and debating of the controversial social media bill sponsored by Sani Musa, a senator, as a means of curbing what authorities term […]

As a policy, it seems like a no brainer. Twitter had announced plans to notify dormant account holders that if they didn’t log in by December 11, their account could be removed and their handles […]

It is a thing of joy to write this foreword to a collection of newspaper articles written by one of Nigeria’s finest and most accomplished journalists. Titled, Media On My Mind and subtitled, Ethics, Governance […]

To be very, very, very clear, I will say this upfront: I am 100 percent against the move by the national assembly to regulate social media and legislate against hate speech. Mind you, I do […]

Every second of November is proclaimed as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists as members of states are urged by the United Nations General Assembly to implement definite measures in countering […]

Gentlemen of the press, all ye newsmen, play-wright, video and electronic devices producers, writers, critics the dice is cast. Thumb your chest no more in self appraisal. Pocket your ego. Swallow your pride and drop […]

Head of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Dr Edith Ugochi Ohaja, has described the proposed bill seeking to place death penalty on anyone convicted of hate speech as a time […]

n 2016 the World Health Organisation (who) declared Britain to be officially free from measles, a highly infectious illness that killed about 110,000 people around the world in 2017. The success was short-lived. After 991 […]

Convener, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, has rejected plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to censor usage of the social media in the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had on Tuesday said […]

How to ensure professionalism in journalism and instil discipline in social media/online practice dominated discussions at the 2019 media week of Correspondents Chapel, Abia State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists that ended at the […]

Journalism professional bodies and indeed officials of the Nigerian Press organization (NPO) comprising the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Civil Society Organisations […]

I first thought it was a joke until Fisayo Soyombo confirmed it himself. “It’s true. I’m in hiding,” he had said when asked to confirm if it was true that Nigeria’s security agencies were hunting […]

Truth in journalism – piecing together the facts, vetting sources and connecting the details, is “hard” but it is more important now than ever because the effect of fake news is “harder”. Fake news presents […]

It is no longer news that the much hyped social media induced ‘wedding of the year’ between President Muhammadu Buhari and Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management is […]

We should not get it twisted in the media, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s(BBC’s) still trending scoop on two randy lecturers at the University of Lagos and a University in Ghana may be rightly interpreted as […]

Mohammed Adamu, inspector general of police, on Friday said the major problem confronting the police in the country is the social media. He said policing Nigeria in a social media era was difficult. Adamu said […]