The Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has vowed to continue to summon broadcasters who violate the Broadcasting Code. Balarabe Ilelah, Director-General of NBC, made this known when members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) visited the commission’s office in Abuja on Monday. According to Ilelah, the NBC is not out to suppress press […]
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One that has risen to become spokesman to president of a country and later a minister aside other important public offices should be seen as one that is a diplomat and statesman. But Chief Femi FaniKayode failed in his public carriage last week when he rounded up his visit to Cross River State where he […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says no fewer than 262 journalists were jailed in 2017 for “doing their work”. The group said at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday that journalists were regularly threatened, attacked and killed, and also being imprisoned in record numbers around the world. CPJ […]
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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has admonished journalists to exhibit professionalism and patriotism in their duties to save the country from collapse and the ills of bad journalism. The Sultan made the call on Saturday in Sokoto when national officials of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) paid him a courtesy visit […]
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, is set to establish radio and television stations in the country. NUJ National President, Waheed Odusile, disclosed this on Monday in Bauchi during a condolence visit to the union’s National Secretary, Mr Shuaibu Leman, over the death of his mother, Mrs Jonnah Leman. Odusile said that the stations would […]
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A Court in Manhattan on Thursday sentenced Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, who worked at the UN in 2013, to two years in prison after an exhaustive plea agreement with the court. It was a stunning defeat for the prosecutor who had asked that Shuaibu be sentenced to five years under the indictment. Shuaibu pleaded guilty to one […]
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The level of insecurity in Edo State is becoming alarming. Amongst many cases, a Benin-based freelance photo journalists, Mr. Lucky Agie, was on Monday night attacked by suspected armed robbers, on his way home from work. Agie who was attacked when he boarded a taxi along Akpakpava Road in Benin City, the Edo State capital, […]
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