Contrary to claims made by Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, on his role in scuttling President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's vacation letter to the leadership of the National Assembly, THISDAY hereby states categorically that it is standing by its story.
A group of disgruntled journalists met in Harare on Monday night and resolved to challenge in court last week's election of a new Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) executive.
The Managing Director of Optimum Media Prime (OMP), Mr. Ken Ashigeby, has stated emphatically that his outfit will push the limit beyond the borders, as afar as reality shows in the country are concerned.
Public Agenda has added another laurel to its list of numerous awards, a phenomenon that has become the hallmark of the paper since its inception in 1994. In recognition of Public Agenda's significant contribution to the cause of the disabled, the Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) last Thursday presented the paper with a plaque at a ceremony to climax this year's International Day of Persons ...
WHAT relevance would the Zimbabwe Media Commission have to HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the country, one might ask? Quite a lot, it seems. The establishment of the pending Zimbabwe Media Commission, according to Sten Rylander, could facilitate and enhance effective communication on HIV and Aids in the country. Rylander is Sweden's Ambassador to Zimbabwe.
THE Deputy Minister of Media and Information Jameson Timba says photojournalists in Zimbabwe should be given the freedom to work without any form of restrictions. Timba said it was time the local media was liberated so that photojournalists can shoot images that tell the true story of Zimbabwe.
Matthew Takaona finally left office as president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) on Friday following the election of a new executive, but says he will remain a "powerful ordinary member" of the union. Takaona had been ZUJ president since 1999 and there were growing concerns from some sections of the media fraternity that he wanted to cling on to the position.
AS "the centre of knowledge and wisdom", the city boasts a strong arsenal of communicological smart tools of power in the form of radio and television and newspapers with which to shield its citizenry from rapacious, nefarious foreign propaganda exported to Zimbabwe in order to destabilise and confuse the mind for political gains.
The Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has decried the inadequate funds allocated in the 2010 budget, saying the money was not enough to ensure that it fulfills its mandate as prescribed in the constitution and the Global Political Agreement.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday identified the contribution of the media to the fight against corruption, saying that unless Nigerians are informed of its activities, nobody would know about what it has been doing.
The family of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said yesterday that it would not hesitate to institute legal action against any media house that continues to report the president's health maliciously.
DSTV viewers have grown 33%, which translates to an impressive 1,129- million new viewers, pitching it for the first time against terrestrial channels SABC and e.tv, the latest Television Audience Measurement Survey (TAMS) has shown.
Female filmmaker, Mrs Helen Ukpabio warred furiously and lost a legal battle with the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) over the claims that her film entitled Rapture 1&2 has been deemed ineligible for release because it was a direct attack on a particular religious sect; it was alleged that she infused the film with inflammatory anti-Catholic images.
The Nation Media Group, which publishes Daily Monitor, has revised its editorial policy guidelines to emphasise democracy and good governance, environment, regional integration and other key issues in Africa. Speaking during its launch at the Monitor offices in Kampala yesterday, NMG Group Editorial Director Joseph Odindo said the revised code "reaffirms NMG's commitment" to be the media of Africa ...
THE Government is to amend the Press and Journalist Act (1995) to regulate the work of the media.
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has commended the media bill sponsored by Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa at the National Assembly, saying in spite of its shortcomings it would enhance journalists' welfare and promote journalism profession.
The choice of my topic today, I must confess at the outset, is provoked by the presentation made by the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), Afarkriya A. Gadzama at a recent national workshop organized by the Nigerian Press Council to appraise the conduct and performance of the Nigerian media in ensuring the enthronement of good governance.
Journalists in Sierra Leone can still be arrested and jailed for writing material considered "libel" regardless if what they published is true or not.
"Today, 55 newspapers in 44 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
BOTSWANA has been at the forefront of giving an African voice to anti-Zimbabwe rhetoric from the United States and European Union going to the extent of citing Zimbabwe, even in its state of the nation address.
Unlike the British Broadcasting Corporation that is mainly funded through a license fee paid by television owners in the UK, which state of affairs renders it generally free from external manipulation; the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation largely depends on subventions from the central government even when it should be a self-supporting parastatal.
The Somali journalists in Uganda have Saturday unanimously condemned the suicide bomb attack targeted to Shamo hotel in south of the Somali capital, just as graduation ceremony held for students of Banadir University in the capital.
TODAY, 56 newspapers in 44 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
British Government has today sent condolences to Somali journalists for the murder of three journalists who were killed in Mogadishu blast. On behalf of the UK government, British High Commissioner to Kenya and Somalia Rob Macaire said in a letter sent to Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists Omar Faruk Osman “I would like to pass my condolences to you and your ...
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