Punch, ThisDay and The Nation newspapers were conspicuously missing at the unveiling of media partners of the Nigerian Centenary Project which held at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Ikeja, Lagos today. Only five national newspapers were announced at the media partnership unveiling ceremony. The Guardian, Vanguard, Business Day, The Sun and Nigerian Tribune were [...]
Nigeria’s Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar is surely on a mission to cleanse Nigeria’s judiciary. She has already blown some corrupt judges away. Next week, TheNEWS presents Mukhtar’s leadership style, the reforms she is initiating in the Judiciary, her orders which now put judges on their toes, the ongoing probe of judges and other factors [...]
Funso Arogundade From Monday 6 May, British-Nigerian international broadcaster Femi Oke will take over as new host of Al Jazeera’s award winning show “The Stream”. Al jazeera made this known yesterday via their twitter page, google+ and other social media. “We are very excited to announce that we have a new host! International broadcaster Femi [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists highlighted Nigeria and Brazil on Tuesday as among the worst offenders for violence against reporters — and failure to bring culprits to justice. The New York-based media rights group issued its annual Impunity Index headed once again by Iraq, which has been a particularly deadly place for journalists since the [...]
It was a night Jose Mourinho, coach of Real Madrid will not forget in a hurry: being walloped by Borussia Dortmund, not 1-0, but 4-1, all the goals coming from Borussia’s Poland danger man Robert Lewandowski. The Poland striker scored in the eighth, 50th, 55th and 66th minute with a blasted penalty to leave an [...]
The regulatory authority of Nigeria’s broadcasting stations has suspended the broadcasting license of a radio station that repeated conspiracy theories about polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics, a statement said Saturday. Gunmen attacked two polio clinics in the northern city of Kano on February 8, killing at least 10 people, after Wazobia [...]
