Tag: social media
I’m Alive —Soyinka
Two days after the rumour of Professor Wole Soyinka’s death that went viral on the social media, P.M.NEWS finally tracked…
Jonathan laments use of social media for negative criticism
President Goodluck Jonathan has decried the use of the social media worldwide to create social discontent and anarchy in the…
Social Media: Invaluable Tool for Free and Fair Election, says Aregbesola
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of Osun has declared that digital form of journalism has become an integral part…
Nigerian Sex Workers Explore Social Media
Eromosele Ebhomele For many commercial sex workers in Nigeria, the internet has become a blessing as it is increasingly becoming…
Social Media Awash With Eagles’ Praises After Sudan’s Fall
Taiwo Adelu Nigerians showed Wednesday’s evening that though they might be angry, they always want their team to produce good…
World Cup final sets records on social media
Germany’s nail-biting victory over Argentina in the World Cup final entered the record books on social media giants Twitter and…
SSS cautions on dependence on social media
Julius Owoupeta, a senior official of the State Security Service (SSS) has urged Nigerians to be cautious in relying on…
Capello bans Russians from tweeting
Coach Fabio Capello known for his disciplinarian attitude has imposed a social media black out on his Russian squad at…
Police set up team to apprehend false alarmists
The spokeswoman of the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, on Thursday said the command had set up a team…
Real Intimacy 2
By Aidy Thomas Our generation is a victim of influence of social media flooding the world on different platforms. When…
Social Media And The Nigerian Youth
By Ufuoma Ogbe Social media is the ‘new media’ that speed up conversations in a more interactive way that makes…
Social Media Mock Patience Jonathan
Eromosele Ebhomele Bloggers and other social media activists have designed viral images including T-shirts and caricature of wife of the…
Turkey’s Twitter ban backfires
The global Internet community rallied to help Twitter users in Turkey circumvent a block on the popular messaging service on…
Research: Facebook loses appeal to teenagers
Facebook is losing its appeal to teenagers as more and more parents start using it to keep tabs on them,…
Man In Court For Raping Facebook Lover
The Nigerian police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned a 34-year-old man, Omowuyi Kelvin, over alleged rape of a 25-year old…
Social Media And Public Information Management In Nigeria
By Jude Zoho The National Council on Information met recently at its 44th session in Osogbo and focused on the…
Social media killing Nigerian newspapers, say vendors
Newspaper vendors in the eastern Nigerian city of Umuahia, in Abia State, have attributed the low sales being experienced to…
Twitter goes public
Twitter announced Thursday, in a tweet, that it has submitted papers for the most hotly anticipated stock offering in the…
Olowo-Aiye Goes On Social Media
This is an account of how the International Conference on D.O. Fagunwa went interactive online, drawing the virtual participation of…
Facebook launches search engine for shared content
Facebook on Tuesday in California launched a search engine for shared content described as a way to find things liked…
Fake doctor arrested for defrauding Facebook friend
The Nigerian Police in Lagos has arrested a fake medical doctor, who lied to an acquaintance he met on the…
US Muslims launch makeover campaign for ‘Jihad’
US Muslims launched an advertising and social media campaign Friday in the hopes of reclaiming the word jihad from extremists…
Youths Advised On Use Of Social Media
A non-government organisation, Ipaja Youth Forum, IYF, has counselled secondary school students on the positive use of social media to…
Fashola Disowns Facebook Fraudster
Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State this morning disowned the existence of any facebook account purportedly being operated by…
Toni Payne To K-Solo: Stop The Insults
Toni Payne, estranged wife of music star, 9ice, has advised music producer and singer, Solomon Oyeniyi, popularly known as K-Solo,…
Chinese political system could collapse, warns US academic
China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to…
Facebook boost for Obama campaign
US President Barack Obama got an exceptional spike of more than one million “likes” on Facebook this week in his…
Between Hisbah And State Police
The agitation for state police and the debate it has generated will not cease despite the hypocritical stance of the…
Social Media: An Instrument For Good Or Evil
Social media is an almost nebulous term that is tossed around a lot these days. It would seem that most…
David Mark’s Paranoia
In a moment of frustration, Senate President, David Mark, last week called for a censoring of the social media in…