Ayo Olukotun
12 Mar 2019
I have reached a very significant point in my regular public writing, and compelled by a personal work restructuring that I just undertook to step it down significantly, by 70% perhaps. It means I would henceforth intervene in national discourse only on very few occasions when I feel so strongly, and when I need to…
16 Aug 2018
This book has established for itself the status of a tour de force in the study of political communication in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic not only because it is the first to pay serious and detailed attention to the ethical foundations of the politics, economics, sociology, law, structure and institutional culture of key elements...
9 Aug 2018
A review of Watchdogs or captured media? A study of the role of the media in Nigeria’s emergent democracy, 1999-2016, ed. Ayo Olukotun (Lagos: Diamond Publications, 2018), 448 pages) This book has established for itself the status of a tour de force in the study of political communication in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic not only because…
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The book, Watchdogs or Captured Media: A Study of the Role of the Media in Nigeria’s Emergent Democracy 1999 to 2016, would be presented to the public today at Afe Babalola Hall, University of Lagos.
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