By Banji Ayoola A former top civil servant in Ondo State, and now a cleric, Mr Wale Josiah, has stressed the urgent need for journalists in Nigeria to have a health insurance scheme in place to fall back on in their hours of critical need especially after retirement from active service. While responding on Friday […]
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By Banji Ayoola Remi Aye, a former Head Photographer of The Hope newspapers, who has been battling for survival since Tuesday, has passed on. He died about 8.30 this morning, at his Oda, near Akure country home according to his son, Ayo. He called on phone shortly after and sadly said briefly: “Daddy mi ti […]
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Lanre Arogundade at the DSS office at International Airport Lagos on Thursday, February 11, 2022 The Executive Director of the International Press Institute based in Lagos and former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, was arrested by officials of the Department of State Services on Thursday. Though the security outfit […]
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DIRECTOR of the International Press Centre, IPC, Lanre Arogundade, was reportedly detained, yesterday, by officers attached to the Department of State Services, DSS. According to Arogundade, he had just arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, from The Gambia, when he was detained by DSS operatives around 3:30 pm. The IPC director, who […]
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One of Nigeria’s most vibrant newspapers, The Punch, has petitioned the Police Inspector-General, Alhaji Usman Alkali Baba, over the alleged attack on its correspondent, Toni Ufor, by some policemen attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) on Wednesday. The officers also reportedly seized Ufor’s phone and identity card. In the petition, the newspaper’s Editor Ademola […]
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Former staff members of Owena Press Limited, publishers of The Hope newspaper, wholly owned by the Ondo State Government, have appealed to the state government to pay the arrears of gratuity due to them. Particularly, they appealed to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, to, as a caring father and in the spirit of the season, consider […]
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Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said N4 billion licence renewal fees are being owed it by some 100 broadcast stations. Consequently, the regulator gave the erring outfits up till February 17, 2022 to pay up or have their licences withdrawn and reallocated to prospective […]
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Right to Left: Former Managing Director of The Guardian, Mr Lade Bonuola; Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Vanguard, Mr Gbenga Adefaye; and former Editor of Nigerian Tribune, Mr Folu Olamiti at the 30th Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME), on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Centre, Onikan, Lagos, where […]
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Chairman of the Governing Council, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Chief Olusegun Osoba, yesterday, said the institute is being grown to become an efficient finishing school in the training of Mass Communication experts. He spoke during the sixth convocation ceremony of the institute which also climaxed activities marking its 50th anniversary. Osoba, represented by the […]
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P+ Measurement Services, Nigeria’s foremost Independent Public Relations measurement and evaluation agency, celebrates its sixth year of effective operation with qualitative offerings for its numerous clients, as it rebrands with a new business logo, website, and office to deepen penetration. This was contained in a statement by a Senior Media Analyst III, Glory Nnabugwu. It […]
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