Buhari told me and Dele Giwa he’d tamper with press freedom – Ray Ekpu

Former Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch Magazine and Chief Executive Officer of MayFive Media Limited, Ray Ekpu, narrated his encounter with President Muhammadu Buhari, when he was Nigeria’s Military Head of State in I984 as a Major General. In this interview with Kayode Oyero, the veteran journalist disclosed how Buhari reportedly vowed to tamper with press freedom. […]

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The making of a The Guardian reporter – Part 7

On Scales and Balances By Yinka Fabowale My career as the Oyo State correspondent benefitted immensely from the magnanimity of my departing colleagues. Although they could not wait to personally introduce me to their news sources because their resumption in Lagos was overdue, they passed me a directory in the office containing a list of […]

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The making of a The Guardian reporter – Part 6

High Commissioner Jonathan Richardson meeting with former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper, Mr Eluem Emeka Izeze and former Editor, now Editor-in-Chief, of the newspaper, Mr Martins Oloja, in 2014 On scales and balances By Yinka Fabowale “How are you, Yinka? How would you like to go and work in outstation?” The gentleman […]

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The making of a The Guardian reporter – Part 2

He who would dance with the gods By Yinka Fabowale The call A 1986 graduate of Communication and Language Arts from University of Ibadan with a postgraduate diploma of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, I had worked as an Information Officer at the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Culture since 1987, […]

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NBC suspends Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’ broadcast

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered the immediate suspension of “Politics Today” programme on Channel Television. It also fined the station N5 million forallegedly breaching the broadcast code. In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television by the Acting Director General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, NBC said the penalties were based on the 7pm live broadcast on Sunday […]

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NBC suspends Channel TV’s ‘Politics Today’ broadcast

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered the immediate suspension of “Politics Today” programme on Channel Television. It also fined the station N5 million forallegedly breaching the broadcast code. In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television by the Acting Director General of the Commission, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, NBC said the penalties were […]

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