Journalists charged on nation-building as Ondo NUJ begins press week

Aderoboye, Left, with colleagues at the service Media practitioners have been charged to practice their profession like a calling aimed at service to humanity. The call came yesterday as Ondo State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ began its 2020 Press Week with a thanksgiving service. Pastor Michael Gbala of the Redeemed Christian […]

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Bonuola bags Soyinka’s lifetime award for journalistic excellence 

Founding Editor and former Managing Director of The Guardian, Mr Lade Bonuola (Ladbone), Left; with the newspaper’s former Parastatals Reporter, Mr Adeleke Adeseri, at the conferment of Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence on Bonuola, by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, in Lagos … on Wednesday, November 9, 2020 By Banji Ayoola A […]

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Ex NUJ chairman, Fadahunsi passes on

By Banji Ayoola An ex chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ondo State Council,  former Special Adviser on Labour Matters to ex Governor Olusegun Mimiko, and a former governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Comrade Adedayo Fadahunsi, has passed on. The NUJ which broke the news in a statement […]

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Remembering Dele Giwa, Nigeria’s hero of journalism 34 years after

It’s 34 years today since the flaming journalist, Dele Giwa, was killed via a parcel bomb, a novel manner of assassination. The question today remains unanswered: Who killed Dele Giwa? He is remembered for his famous quote: “Nigeria is on fire and the citizens are amused”. Giwa was one of Nigerian’s strongest journalists, who many […]

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Finesse, courtesy now missing on air, says Biola Olatunde

as veteran broadcaster celebrates 70 By Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale Biola Olatunde, novelist, poet, newscaster, script writer, drama producer and public speaker clocks 70 years today, October 3, 2020. The distinguished alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has written more than 200 stories for radio and television, as well as poetry anthologies and two novels […]

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Journalists mourn veteran Ayo Ogedengbe

By Banji Ayoola Shock, disbelief and dismay tore through the media industry in Ondo State yesterday as the news of passage of veteran journalist and iconic sports enthusiast, Mr. Ayo Ogedengbe after a brief illness, filtered in. His veteran seniors and colleagues, those he mentored in the profession, his many friends on the social media […]

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