The Nigeria Police is reported to have summoned three staff of Leadership Newspaper to report at the force Headquarters, Abuja. Those said to be summoned include: The Group News Editor, Tony Amokeodo; Chibuzor Ukaibe and Taiwo Ogunmola Omilam; the Correspondents for Abuja and Lagos respectively. The summon is alleged to be in connection with a […]
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The attention of the Nigerian Press Council has been drawn to the reported arrest of four personnel of the Leadership newspaper stable. The four are Mrs. Chinyere Fred-Adebulugbe, Mr. Chuks Ohuegbe, Mr. Tony Amokeodo and Mr. Chibuzor Ukaibe. Council wishes to reiterate that journalists should not be encumbered in carrying out their civic and constitutional
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The Nigeria Police, is reported to have summoned and detained four journalists from the Leadership Newspapers. The four are the Executive Director Human Capital, Chinyere Adegbulegbe; Managing Editor, Chuks Ohuegbe; Group News Editor, Tony Amokeodo; and the Politics Reporter, Chibuzor Ukaibe. Their alleged detention was in connection with a story published by the Newspaper. The
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The president of Nigeria Union of journalists [NUJ], Mohammed Garba, was on Sunday, March 31, 2013 elected President of the Federation of African Journalists [FAJ], at the end of its third congress in Casablanca, Morocco.
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The publisher and Vice Chairman of African Newspaper Plc, publishers of the Tribune newspapers, Oluwole Awolowo, died on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at the age of 70.
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists [NUJ] has issued a two week ultimatum to Media organizations’ owing salaries and allowances of their employees, urging such organizations to meet their obligations to their personnel or risk unpleasant industrial actions.
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Private Daily newspapers are being sold in Burma for the first time in almost 50years as state monopoly ends. It was announced in December that private dailies would be allowed to publish from April 1 as the government informed journalists that they would no longer have to submit their work routinely to state censor before
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The need for the maintenance of the highest standard in different professions had always necessitated the establishment of various regulatory bodies. The journalism profession not an exception. The obligation of the mass media as contained in section 22 of 1999 constitution empowers the media to “uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the
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Benue State, the State popularly referred to as the food basket of the nation, served as host for Journalists from seven states of the North Central geo-political zone who converged in the State capital, Makurdi, for a two-day capacity building programme under the auspices of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and the Democratic Governance for
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The President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mallam Mohammed Garba, has decried the declining standard of journalism practice in the country in recent times. He spoke in an interview with NAN after inaugurating the committee of the Ladi Lawal NUJ Journalist Award of the year 2012.
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