Category: News Media
Leveraging FOI Act for Investigative Reporting
By Sunday Aikulola Twelve years after enactment of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, participants at a two-day workshop, which held in Ibadan, Oyo State, recently, have described the Act as a powerful tool of…
Court declines to vacate judgment restraining NBC from imposing fines on broadcast
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court (FHC) on Thursday dismissed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)’s motion seeking an order to set aside its judgment restraining the commission from imposing fines on broadcast stations.…
Delta Online Publishers Forum stresses adherence to ethical journalism practice, inducts 7 new members
Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 inducted seven new members into the forum, with a call on them to be ethically responsible in their online journalism practice. At the induction ceremony…
Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi States guber polls: Be safety conscious MRA tells Journalists
LAGOS, Friday, November 10, 2023: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on Federal and State Governments as well as law enforcement and security agencies to take adequate measures to protect journalists and other media workers…
As Delta NUJ gets new Exco (The Pointer Editorial)
After a relatively long season of campaign, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Delta State Council elected Mr. Churchill Oyowe as Chairman to pilot the affairs of the council for the next three years. His emergence…
Ensure Journalists’ safety, punish perpetrators of attacks, MRA charges President Tinubu
Lagos, Thursday, November 2, 2023: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) Thursday called on President Bola Tinubu to make a clear commitment to ensure the safety of journalists in Nigeria and bring an end to impunity for…
Delta’s CPS applauds good work of Delta Online Publishers Forum for invaluable public service
The Chief Press Secretary to Delta State Governor, Sir Festus Ahon has acknowledged and lauded members of Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) for keeping faith with Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s administration through the excellent work of informing…
Oborevwori appoints Chiazor as Executive Assistant, media
GOVERNOR Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has appointed a veteran Journalist,Communication scholar and former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ) Delta state council, Comrade Norbert Chiazor as Executive Assistant (EA) on…
Tinubu’s govt planning to gag media ahead of release of FBI files, Atiku’s aide alleges
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, says the Bola Tinubu administration has perfected an elaborate and sinister plot to gag the media ahead of the release of the records…