The Nigeria Media Merit Award, NMMA has said that it would continue to strive to recognise and reward excellence in the practice of journalism in Nigeria. Yemi Akeju, chief administrator of the organisation gave the assurance in Ikeja, during an official visit to the office of TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL Magazine, Nigeria’s leading…
Audit Reporting: Making Sense of the Figures
Sample opinions and the result you are sure to get is that the average Nigerian journalist is arithmophobic, (or numerophobic). Safe those in specialised areas of reporting like banking and finance, the economy, and the sciences, one can safely posit that majority of journalists have a morbid fear of figures or numbers. The reason they…
Corruption Fight: Ugwuanyi’s Aide Underscores Character, Integrity
Special adviser to the governor of Enugu State on Financial Matters, Paschal Okolie, has emphasised character and integrity as crucial to the fight against corruption in Nigeria’s public service. Okolie, a professor of public finance and accounting, who spoke at a two-day Audit Reporting Training workshop for journalists in Anambra and Enugu States in Awka,…
Alleged Marginalisation: Niger Delta Group Threatens Showdown With FG Over Appointments Into Amnesty Programme
The Niger Delta Volunteers for Good Governance (NDVFGG) has threatened a breach of public peace to register its protest over perceived marginalisation of Edo and Delta States in the appointment of principal officers into the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). The NDVFGG vowed to mobilise for “a total lock down of economic activities” within the Niger…
Concerned Delta REC Seeks Journalists’ Support in Sensitising Registrants to Collect Over 300,000 Unclaimed PVCs As He Inaugurates INEC Press Corps
The partnership between Nigeria’s election umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and media practitioners in Delta State, was on recently taken a notch higher with the inauguration of INEC Press Corps, IPC, where the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Monday Udoh-Tom, a cleric, charged journalists in the state to help create awareness for registrants to…
Insecurity: U.S Asks Staff to Work from Home
The staff of United States embassy in Abuja stayed at home on Monday for fear of expected terrorist attacks in Nigeria’s capital city. Only a very few expatriate staff were allowed to come to work and they moved in amoured vehicles in fear of the expected attacks. The Department of States, on Sunday, October 23,…
Truss Becomes Shortest Ruling British Prime Minister
Liz Truss, the woman who emerged as the third British Prime Minister in history has resigned. She resigned on Wednesday after the cabinet she put together fell like a pack of cards and she was reduced to a redundant leader. She is leaving after 45 days in office. Truss had sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor…
Enugu State Labour Party Gubernatorial Crisis Worsens
A gloomy cloud is thickening around the electoral sky of Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State. If not dispersed with wisdom, it will rain disaster for the party in the gubernatorial election as they may not have any candidate to challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate. Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, may…
Ekiti: Fayemi Out, Oyebanji In
Biodun Oyebanji, the winner of the last governorship election in Ekiti State has taken over from Kayode Fayemi, until recently the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, whose tenure ended Sunday October 16. Oyebanji won at a recent election, which is one of the off-season elections in Nigeria. He ran on the platform of…
Wike makes last minute 14,359 political appointments
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has appointed 14,000 advisers, 319 ward and 40 local government liaison officers. In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri on Tuesday, the governor said the advisers will play a pivotal role in the administration. But he did not elaborate on the nature of work they…
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