May 24
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Nigeria: Edo NULGE Protests Non-Payment of Training Fund
NIGERIA Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Edo State chapter, has, staged a peaceful protest over the delay in the release of the one percent statutory allocation training... Read more »
May 22
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Nigeria: New Nigerian Journalists Seek N780 Million Pay Off
JOURNALISTS working with the New Nigerian Newspapers, NNN, have appealed to the 19 northern states governors to settle the N780 million outstanding liabilities owed workers of the... Read more »
May 20
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Nigeria: Sportsguard - When Journalists Are No Longer Stakeholders
I didn't want to bog readers with the news that yours sincerely was appointed into the Board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF as one of the Stakeholders of the game but... Read more »
May 18
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Nigeria: Babangida's Legacy of Private Broadcasting [opinion]
IN the past, broadcasting was an exclusive central government preserves which means private individuals do not have the right under law to invest in the sector. Read more »
May 16
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Nigeria: UNESCO Trains 50 Female Students On Investigative Journalism
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has trained no fewer than 50 female student-journalists in 11 tertiary institutions in the South-West on... Read more »
May 15
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Nigeria: Ndigbo Mourns Pini Jason
As more tributes continue to pour in for late Vanguard columnist, Pini Jason, Ndigbo Lagos, yesterday, described him as a great mind with wisdom and understanding. Read more »
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Nigeria: Fears Over Porn Broadcast in Nigeria As Star Times Acquires S-Africa Top TV
There are fears that broadcast of pornography on pay TV channels may become real in Nigeria, following acquisition of majority equity in On Digital Media, operating as TopTV by... Read more »
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Nigeria: DASA-CWAS Celebrates African Newspapers
AFRICAN newspapers take centre stage this week in the United Kingdom as the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, DASA, incorporating the Centre of West African Studies,... Read more »
May 13
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Nigeria: Elegant Pini - Death Is Such an Ass [opinion]
Frankly, I'm tired of writing obituaries and eulogies. Were death not such an invisible coward, we should go and drag it from its abode, and give it a public flogging for being... Read more »
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Nigeria: Vanguard Bags Web Nigeria Award
Vanguard Media limited, publishers of Vanguard Newspapers, yesterday emerged the winner of the 2013/2014 edition of Web Nigeria Awards in the Newspaper category. Read more »
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Nigeria: My Award Was Not an 'Arrangee', Says Jabulani
A producer/presenter of Bond FM's highly acclaimed news programme in Yoruba language, "Koko inu iwe iroyin" (today in the papers), Jolaoluwa Afolabi popularlly called J.J. Jabulani... Read more »
May 9
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Nigeria: Anti-Press Violence - How Safe Are Journalists?
Like Soud Qbeilat, an artist, would say, "When there is no freedom, there is no creativity". No doubt, press freedom in Nigeria has become increasingly worrisome as cases of... Read more »
May 8
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Nigeria: Waiting for Pini Jason [analysis]
TUESDAY passed without Pini Jason's column that had become a traditional offering in Vanguard for years. What would he have written? What would he have ignored, rating it... Read more »
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Nigeria: The Opposition and Nda-Isaiah's Game Plan [opinion]
WHEN recently, the publisher and chairman of the Leadership newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, announced that he was stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the organisation, I did not... Read more »
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Nigeria: Pini Jason Belonged to Our First Eleven [analysis]
I WAS on Mississippi Street in Maitama, Abuja, about to turn into Alvan Ikoku Street and head home when the terrible news homed into my essence with a bang. I pulled my banger over... Read more »
May 7
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Nigeria: Pini De Man! [analysis]
THE news of the death of Pini Jason came from the radio this morning(Sunday morning) and threw me off balance. I was thrown from the joy of preparations for a communion service in... Read more »
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Nigeria: Pini Never Lived Above His Means - Widow
THE pothole-filled street (it appeared to have been tarred at some point in its life) that led to Pini Jason's Surulere residence had an unfair share of ponds after the early... Read more »
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Nigeria: NOC Congratulates Mitchell Obi
The President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr. Sani M. Ndanusa has congratulated Mr Mitchell Obi on his election as President of AIPS Africa and Vice President of the... Read more »
May 6
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Nigeria: I Did Not Plan to Be a Journalist - Jola Ogunlusi [interview]
Baba Jola Ogunlusi, a veteran journalist, came into journalism by accident and bagged the best investigative reporter of his time with a gift of a brand new Olympia typewriter in... Read more »
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Nigeria: Ban Ki-Moon Tasks Govts to Ensure Safety of Journalists
Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki Moon, Friday called on governments, societies and individuals to do their utmost to protect the safety of all journalists. Read more »
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Nigeria: Pini Jason, Vanguard Columnist, Is Dead
Vanguard columnist, Chief Pini Jason Onyegbadue, popularly known as Pini Jason, is dead. He died Saturday afternoon in a Lagos hospital after undergoing a surgical procedure a few... Read more »
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Nigeria: Tribute - for Pini Jason - Who Stood for Something
EVEN with the mortality of humans being well founded, there are people you would hardly think about that way. Pini Jason Onyegbaduo who passed on yesterday belonged to that class.... Read more »
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Nigeria: Fayemi Mourns Pini Jason
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, has expressed shock on the death of respected Vanguard columnist, Mr. Pini Jason. Read more »
May 3
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Nigeria: Press Freedom Day - Editors Want Govts to Correct Misconception of Media
The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, yesterday called on the Federal Government to correct its misconception about the mass media as the world celebrates the 2013 Press Freedom Day... Read more »
May 2
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Nigeria: DSS Probes Death Threat to Four Kano Journalists
The Department of State Security Service, DSS, has launched a full scale investigation to unravel the death threat to the executive members of Correspondent Chapel of Nigeria Union... Read more »
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