The Editor: My Sojourn in Journalism is the personal memoir of Solomon Omon Ibharuneafe. Magic2impression Digital Print, Lagos, Nigeria, published it this year. This autobiography has 14 chapters

A Port Harcourt-based constitutional lawyer, Chief Festus Ogwuche, has dragged the Federal Government to court over an alleged attempt to gag the broadcast media in the country through the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The suit filed at the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt Division in Rivers State is similar to that of the Socio-Economic Rights…

MRA Decries Attack On Media Houses The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has joined other Nigerians in condemning the shooting of unarmed protesters in Lagos allegedly by military men. This is as the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) yesterday condemned attacks on journalists and media houses in some parts of the country during the protest. ANA…

One of the most powerful communication tools in the world today is media; from print, electronic to social media. We can’t downplay the role of the Media Industry in any way; it has always been and will continue to be the major tool of visibility in the world. Elsie Godwin is using her voice as…

Clear skin, full lips, toned abs, tall, slender, hourglass figure and so much more has become the body standard for being beautiful. Though beauty is a relative concept, the fact is there are marks that have to be met before one is widely regarded as such. Inner beauty, beauty with brains and other variants are…

The media, arguably, contributed greatly to the attainment of independence in 1960. Many believe that Nigeria’s ‘war’ of independence was fought on the pages of newspapers, unlike many other African countries. Daily Times, which was established in 1926, contributed to the actualisation of independence through the manner it deployed all weapons in its arsenal to…

On September 28, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, led the global observance of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). UNESCO’s General Conference proclaimed IDUAI in 2015, with the following objectives: According to UNESCO, access to information is an inalienable human right that serves the public, in particular, civil…

The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ, yesterday, restated its determination in ensuring that government does not tamper with freedom of information and expression of citizens

A lawyer, Lekan Egberongbe has urged the media to be fair and unbiased in reporting the ongoing investigation into the crisis in Oguntedo, Satellite town area of Lagos State. According to him, the matter is still pending before the court and could be subjudiced. The crisis, the subject of which the lawyer is complaining about,…

Participants at the seventh yearly and first virtual conference of the Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) have stressed the need for Africans to fashion out methods to empower media professionals so as to promote citizen representation and hold leaders accountable on issues of governance. With the theme, ‘Communicating Identities and Nationhood:…

Against the backdrop of increasing negative commentaries in the media against former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, following a recent virtual lecture

Experts have called for review of the Code of Ethics for Nigerian journalists, better management of media firms and stricter barriers to entry as means of curbing Brown Envelope Syndrome