Following the picturesque draws of the Africa Cup of Nations held in Cairo, Egypt, last week, there is interesting news that broke afterwards with regards to the free-to-air rights of Egypt 2019 as awarded by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). After its Executive Committee meeting, CAF announced via a communiqué that the African Union…

Miltiplatform broadcast network, Kwesé has signed an advertising deal with online betting company, 234Bet, which will bring live broadcast of the Premier League to Nigerians on the Kwesé Free Sports (KFS) and its sub-licence stations, NTA and AIT. The deal, which will run through the 2018/ 2019 Premier League season, kicks-off with a live encounter…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N3.433 billion for a number of contracts, including the architectural design of a 12-floor corporate headquarters...

A sudden jolt, then a frigid fight for life. “Only God would save me,” Becky Musa would tell her fellow actors. A member of Collective Artistes, in 1989, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening ailment that required urgent medical treatment abroad. The cost of treatment then was $30,000. Becky was pummeled by what Dr. Ogunaike,…

Come October 31 this year, television broadcast in Africa will be 60 years old, following the official commissioning of the Western Nigeria...

Indeed, corruption is endemic in Nigeria. Little wonder President Muhammadu Buhari has kept saying that if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. And when he ran 2015 campaign on the mantra of ‘change’, he spoke about a government that would stop at nothing to fight corruption. Four years down the line, and…

Due to the variety of hazards journalists face in the course of their professional duties, incidents such as killings, torture, enforced disappearances, hostage-taking, arbitrary arrests and detention, physical attacks, intimidation, harassment, threats among others are often their lot. Director of International Press Centre (IPC), Mr. Lanre Arogundade, in a report tagged ‘Reporting Elections and Democratic…

MultiChoice Nigeria is once again expanding the content offering on its DStv platform with the introduction of three new channels from the stables of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and a brand-new local entertainment channel starting 31st January 2019. The 24-hour channels, which are NTA 2, NTA Parliament, NTA News 24 and POP Central TV, will air…

Perhaps, what can be termed the very first tertiary institutions reality television show in Africa, is set to hit TV Screens this month. Dubbed the Queen Varsity Afrika, the show, according to the organisers, is in search of ‘Beauty and Brains’ from across universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. Speaking at a media briefing held…

Nigerians from across different social strata, who expressed expectations and apprehension for the New Year to The Guardian, said ensuring a credible general election and security of lives and property were their major concerns. But contrary to optimism that a credible general election would put the country on the path of stability and progress, the…

Book: This Retirement Author: Kayode Adedire Publishers: Johnsprint Nig. Limited, Ibadan You will not be quite right to condemn journalist Kayode Adedire, the author of This Retirement, for the venom he spews out in this work. Anger, despair and bitterness leap at you from almost every page to dramatise his days in the valley of…

Last Thursday night, Amaju Pinnick was an initial reluctant guest on The Sports Parliament, a weekly television show that I anchor on NTA alongside sports gurus drawn from a pool of 18 members that constitute the parliament. By the time the programme ended at midnight, he had become a happier man. Unknown to him, the…