Tag: Journalists
UN trains Borno journalists
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday commenced a two-day training on humanitarian reporting for 30 journalists in…
Group Condemns Attack On Journalists In Kaduna
An advocacy group, the Media for Development Initiative (MDINigeria) has condemned in strong terms the attack on the Kaduna Council…
Journalists Trained On How To Report Adolescent SRH
Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, on Saturday, trained 70 journalists in Nasarawa State on how to report adolescent Sexual…
Journalists tasked on professionalism, good conduct
The Chairman, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Plateau council, Mr Yakubu Taddy, has urged Journalists to be of good…
2 Journalists Attacked In Abakaliki
Two journalists, Mr Charles Otu of the Guardian newspaper and Mr Samuel Nweze, Publisher of the People’s Leader, have been…
Minister: Journalists deserve better reward system
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung has commended the efforts of Nigerian Journalists toward entrenching genuine democratic…
Journalists Urged To Shun Sensationalism
The Catholic Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Rev Dr Hillary Okeke, has called on media practitioners to be harbingers of…
UPP tells journalists to stop promoting corrupt politicians
A chieftain of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Ifeanyichukwu Okonkwo, has called on journalists to desist from promoting corrupt…
Turkey is safe country for ‘real journalists’ – Minister
Turkey is a safe country for reporters who are truly practicing journalism and not engaging in terrorist activities, the minister…
Journalists urged to address fake news dissemination
Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has called on journalists to come up with solutions to…
UNESCO decries 102 journalists’ death
No fewer than 102 journalists paid the supreme price in the course of their duties in 2016, the UN Educational,…
Stop demonising critical media – UN
UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Mr David Kaye,…
Lai Mohammed tasks journalists on profession repositioning
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday, called on Journalists to write books that would help…
Journalists protest against killing of colleague in Bayelsa
Journalists at Radio Bayelsa on Tuesday marched round Yenagoa to protest against the killing of their colleague, Famous Giobaro, the…
Arrest of journalists: NGE urges caution
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has advised aggrieved persons and organisations to channel their grievances to appropriate authorities rather…
MRA tasks media owners to ensure journalists safety
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA), an NGO for protecting and promoting press freedom, on Thursday called on media house owners…
74 journalists killed worldwide in 2016
Seventy-four journalists and other media workers were killed worldwide in 2016, the majority of whom 53 died as a result…
Judge refuses to bar journalists
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday dismissed an application to bar journalists from covering the case of alleged…
US trains 300 Nigerian journalists
The United States Mission in Nigeria said on Thursday that it had in the last three years built the capacities…
NUJ threatens to boycott PDP, police activities over attack on journalists
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council has condemned the unwarranted attack on journalists who…
5 journalists jailed for blackmail in China
A court in central China’s Hunan Province on Monday, handed five journalists of a newspaper and its website, prison terms…
Southern Kaduna journalists behind rumours of fight with El-Rufai – Deputy
Architect Barnabas Yusuf Bala, the deputy governor of Kaduna state has dismissed talks of a fight with his boss, Governor…
Journalists have nothing to fear from FG – Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said journalists in Nigeria have nothing to fear from the…
IPC decries growing attacks on journalists
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, Nigeria is concerned that journalists in Nigeria are still being subjected to various forms…
Saraki’s aide bribes journalists to kill CCT trial stories
An aide of Senate President, Bukola Saraki have reportedly handed over ‘brown envelopes’ to journalists covering their principal’s trial at…
Oshiomhole gives succour to 2012 accident victims
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has given relief to seven of the journalists who were seriously injured…
Quacks destroying your profession, Obasa tells journalists
Eromosele Ebhomele @selemele2 Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Monday challenged media professionals to come…
Amaechi denies storming Saraki’s residence
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers State has denied reports by a section of…
Four Nigerian journalists scoop CNN/Multichoice Award in Kenya
Seun Bisuga/Nairobi Two journalists from Punch Newspaper, one from Tribune Newspaper and another from online news platform, PremiumTimes News scooped…
General Electric trains journalists on Energy and Infrastructure reporting
African Media Initiative (AMI) and General Electric (GE) have partnered to boost media coverage of Energy and Infrastructure issues in…