Media

I want to rival Facebook – Chukwu

I want to rival Facebook – Chukwu `Terrence Benjamin Chukwu is young but very dynamic. He runs...

Digital switchover: The continuing concerns

Digital switchover: The continuing concerns It was interesting watching the glee on the face of a certain Nigerian young man, as he heaved his newly bought analogue television set and his video player along a major road at Alaba International Market in Lagos

INL Press Week comes alive

By Emma Maduabuchi, Assistant Features Editor This year’s Independent Newspapers Limited...

2012 Media awards: three gone; two to go

2012 Media awards: three gone; two to go Issues surrounding five currently prominent media awards in the country are still the prime subject of discussion amongst Nigerian media persons at the moment. The five awards are: Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA),

The entrance of a Political Economist

The entrance of a Political Economist Though it crept subtly into the market, yet it had not escaped notice. Without the razzmatazz and the advertisement blitz often noticed in the introduction

Media Awards 2012

By Emma Maduabuchi, Assistant Features Editor December is here again. December...

Use of the media and journalists’ fate

Use of the media and journalists’ fate Discussions among Nigerian elites, politicians and political office holders alike, often reveal a level of displeasure with the way the media has operated in the country. Ruing the power of the media, which they acknowledge to be enormous

CNN/MultiChoice awards and Nigerian journalism

CNN/MultiChoice awards and Nigerian journalism Penultimate week, in faraway Zambian capital, Lusaka, some internationally successful corporate organisations gathered to make a huge success of this year’s Multichoice/CNN awards.

As NUJ rejects Channels TV slavery plot

As NUJ rejects Channels TV slavery plot Media at different times in the history of Nigeria have championed several causes that served as turning points of liberation in several sectors.

Nigerian press commendable but… – Chijioke Odom

Nigerian press commendable but…  – Chijioke Odom I will say the media is a very strategic complement in the building of the democratic infrastructure in the country; the hard weapon and essential perception of the democratic process leading to the total inauguration of the libertarian popular democracy.

2012 media awards and journalists

2012 media awards and journalists The wheel of awards for media practitioners and institutions, both locally and internationally, go on strong in Nigeria. Current findings revealed that many more journalists are becoming interested and putting in for the awards as they acknowledge the

Dana crash and media coverage

Dana crash and media coverage The media in Nigeria has played many important roles in the country’s history that many Nigerians have come to expect so much from it. Even the practitioners in the country, so much is also expected of them from the general public, even when so little...