Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has condemned the shooting of Osun State’s The Nation correspondent, Toba Adedeji, and another citizen by some police officers at Olaiya, Osogbo, the State capital on Tuesday. Adedeji and a yet-to-be-identified citizen were reportedly shot by some policemen who were trying to disperse a group of people who had gathered […]
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Osun State correspondent of The Nation newspaper, Mr Toba Adedeji has been shot. He was reportedly shot together with a teenager at Olaiya, in Osogbo, the state capital by policemen while covering the protest of a mourning crowd. The policemen were trying to disperse the crowd of protesters protesting the killing of Mr Abiola Afolabi […]
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Mourners pay last respect to Akleh Qatar Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said yesterday that those responsible for killing veteran Al Jazeera reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, must be held accountable. His comments were made at a live press conference with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. Abu Akleh suffered a gunshot wound to the […]
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A Nigerian investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, has emerged a 2022 fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. As contained in a statement, Soyombo, the founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, is one of the 13 fellows selected worldwide to participate in the six-month fellowship […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN Ondo State Government on Tuesday promised to pay the backlog of outstanding gratuities of former staff of the state owned print media outfit, Owena Press Limited, OPL, publishers of The Hope newspaper. As reported by the newspaper in its Wednesday April 27 edition, “government said it was touched by […]
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commends governor for hiring 2 late journalists’ widows The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has appealed to Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, to pay the gratuities of retired staff of Owena Press Limited, publishers of the state-owned newspaper, The Hope. Besides, it urged him to incorporate the staff of the publishing firm into […]
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The new executive members By Banji Ayoola A Radio Nigeria (Positive FM Akure) reporter, Prince Leke Adegbite, has been sworn in as the Chairman of a new executive of the Ondo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ. Adegbite, an Akoko prince, who was until his new elevation, the Secretary of the council, […]
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The board of directors of Punch Nigeria Limited has appointed Adeyeye Joseph as the newspaper group’s Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief. Joseph’s appointment will take effect from May 1, 2022. The newspaper’s current Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, Ademola Osinubi, who forwarded a notice of retirement to the board in October 2020, will be retiring from the services of the company […]
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By Mike Asuquo SUNNY OJEAGBASE (SO) was a ground-breaker and a self-made entrepreneur beyond the traditional bounds of the media! He was a man who mastered the art of the possible – a grand master of overcoming the odds once he set his sight on the goal! Before him – and long after he switched […]
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Dr Sunny Emmanuel Ojeagbase, the founder and executive chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspapers, SuccessDigest and other online publications, has passed on. He was 71 years. The media entrepreneur, according to a statement signed by his son, Julius Ojeagbase, passed on on Saturday, 26 February 2022, in Atlanta, in the US […]
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