MEDIA

The Election Committee of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, (NGE) on Wednesday, said it had cleared 23 candidates for election into its Executive Council and Standing Committee. The election is to hold during its Biennial Convention scheduled for May 3 in Lagos. Following provisions of the amended 2016 NGE Constitution...

  The University of Lagos (Unilag) on Wednesday launched its television station, Channel 184 on StarTimes Digital Broadcasting Channel, making the institution the first university to run a campus television station not only in Nigeria, but in West Africa. Speaking at the launch, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said...

    The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has concluded arrangements for its second annual conference holding on Friday, October 19, 2019 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State. A statement released in Lagos on Wednesday by GOCOP Publicity Secretary, Olumide Iyanda, confirmed that the theme of the conference is...

Chris Isiguzo, South East Bureau Chief of ThisDay Newspaper from Enugu Zone on Friday morning emerged the National President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the Unions general election in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Isiguzo polled 346 votes to...

  Say it’s draconian, ask N’Assembly to drop it   The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) comprising the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigeria Guild of Editors and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), as well as other media stakeholders have rejected the Nigerian Press Council Bill 2018, describing...

Massive endorsement is trailing the revised edition 2018 of the Nigerian Media Code of Election Coverage. This is so as the number media outfits endorsing the Nigerian Media Code of Election Coverage (Revised edition 2018), which underlines a common chord in the industry for self regulation and checking of excesses,...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the media to always ensure fairness, impartiality, truth and accuracy in reporting the activities of government, in line with the principles of responsible journalism. The Minister made the appeal in Abuja on Thursday, in a statement to...

  Director-General of National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Ishaqu Mobiddo Kawu, on Wednesday, says the media is critical to the nation’s democratic dispensation and as such, should avoid divisive broadcast. Kawu said this at the 69th General Assembly of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) in Lagos with the theme “Role of...

  Twenty three radio and television stations across Nigeria have been fined for various breaches of broadcasting rules set by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The NBC spokesperson, Maimuna Jimada, said in a statement that the stations were punished for hateful speech, vulgar lyrics and unverifiable claims. The breaches contravened...

Nigerian Breweries Plc, at the weekend, celebrated outstanding journalism practice at the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Awards which took place in Lagos. The award, which is the 9th in the series, is aimed at promoting professionalism and objective reportage of events in the country. It is also meant to reward...