Tag: journalist
Chelsea Clinton leaves TV job for Charity
Chelsea Clinton announced Friday that she was stepping down from a part-time reporting job on US television to focus on…
Ask tough questions, US diplomat charges Nigerian journalists
By Simon Ateba Nigerian journalists should begin to ask tough questions that will build and strengthen democracy, Jeffrey Hawkins, the…
IPC decries bombings, mourns killed editor
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday 26 June expressed concern over continuing bombing attacks in the country.…
Nigerian journalists in Boko Haram T-shirt protest
Nigerian journalists covering their country’s World Cup match with Bosnia on Saturday wore t-shirts protesting the Boko Haram Muslim militant…
Abductors of female journalist want N8m
Four gunmen on Thursday in Akure, capital of the western Nigerian state of Ondo, abducted Olubunmi Lawal Oke, a journalist…
NNPC: Diezani’s convoy did not kill journalist
The Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Mr. Fidel Pepple has…
Oil minister Diezani’s convoy kills Nigerian journalist
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council, has expressed sadness over the death of Mr. James Momoh of Abuja…
Funeral Boss Docked For Battering Journalist
The Funeral Director, POS Funeral Services, Bayo Ogunsola, was today arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s court for allegedly assaulting a …
Lagos Oba Loses N18m To Fake Journalist
A suspected fake journalist has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly duping a Lagos monarch to…
Amuneke, Ugbade, Others Kick Off Entertainment Game Show
Now the field of play is set and the game is getting so hot and more interesting with the latest…
Journalist Escapes From Abductors
A Nigerian journalist kidnapped for ransom this week in the southern oil city of Warri has escaped from his captors…
Boko Haram Threatens Journalist
A journalist in Nigeria mentioned as a possible intermediary in talks between the West African nation’s government and a radical…
Ace Photo Journalist, Sunmi Smart Cole Clocks 70
Ace journalist and photographer, Sunmi Smart Cole has joined the elite club of septuagenarians as he clocks 70 on Sunday,…
Senator Babafemi Ojudu: What Next?
Senator Babafemi Ojodu, an Ekiti-born journalist is, a man I respected much in his quest and doggedness for egalitarian society.…
Don’t Go On Strike Yet, Jakande Pleads With ASUU
Former governor of Lagos State and eminent journalist, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Thursday in Lagos urged the Academic Staff Union…
A Tribute To Awo’s Daughter
I remember, sometime in 1989, I was then the Ondo State correspondent of an Ibadan-based provincial newspaper owned by an…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
Babafemi Ojudu Declared Senator-Elect
Journalist and managing editor of TheNEWS/P.M.News, Babafemi Ojudu has won the Ekiti Central Senatorial seat. He defeated the former governor…
INEC Cancels Elections in Edo, Delta, Abuja, others
Elections have been cancelled in Edo, Delta states and Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, the election umpire, the Independent National Electoral…
Army Detains Journalist
A journalist with Next newspaper was detained for four hours by authorities of the Nigerian Army for a military cantonment…
COJAC: A Worthy Cause Against Cancer
Tomorrow, 4 February, is World Cancer Day. It is a day set aside by the United Nations to create awareness…
Alao-Akala Appoints Journalist, 13 Others As Permanent Secretaries
Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State on Wednesday named Mrs. Amoke Dahunsi, a journalist, and three teachers among 14 newly…