The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), has condemned political leaders calling for the resignation of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua over his health status, insisting that the president is not incapacitated
Few days after Amnesty International report indicted the Police of extra-judicial killings and brutality, a journalist with TheNews magazine, Mr. Desmond Utomwen, was almost killed by a combined team of policemen and staff of Guarantee Trust Bank, in Abuja at weekend.
The Minister of State for FCT, Chief Chuka Odom, in Abuja, has challenged the media to be objective in reporting issues so as not to mislead the public.
A workshop regarding mass media and photos was conducted yesterday at the Hager Media Hall within the premises of the Ministry of Information.
Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State was agog last Friday, when the Nigerian Tribune chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), presented the hardworking Special Adviser to Kaduna State Governor on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Umar Sani, with the award of an 'Outstanding Information Manager'.
Every citizen now has the right to access any information "held by another person" if he requires it to protect any right or fundamental freedom.
LET'S hope Botswana doesn't feel intimidated by the abuse being hurled at it about "pirate" radio stations. It may be useful to remind ourselves of the context here. In 2000 the Supreme Court struck down ZBC's monopoly of the airwaves. A handful of broadcasters attempted to set up a private station but were raided by police and their equipment confiscated.
As Mmegi photojournalist Kabo Mpaetona prepared to take a shot of the scene where security agents suspected of being the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) officers shot a man yesterday, an officer in dark glasses attempted to grab his camera.
THE Government has challenged the media to help in sensitising and publicising the need to control pollution, as the law alone is not adequate to curb the problem.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja yesterday commissioned a printing press for the Good Shepherd newspaper of the church, after the formal inauguration of Catholic Association of Media Professionals (CAMP).
BOTSWANA's new ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Gladys Kokorwe has pledged to look into Botswana's hosting of a pirate radio station that has been broadcasting hate language into Zimbabwe in contravention of the Sadc-guaranteed Global Political Agreement.
POLITICAL interference at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) led to acting Director General Mathew Gowaseb walking out earlier this week.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority is demanding taxes amounting to $675,000 (about sh1.2b) from Globecast, the South African firm contracted to offer media services at the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Kampala.
Newspaper proprietor Trevor Ncube will launch his new Zimbabwean daily newspaper, NewsDay, on the web six months before the print edition hits the streets.
No parent of sound mind would object to the government's resolve to protect children from television or radio programmes with sexually explicit content.
One of Ethiopia's leading newspapers has closed down following threats of prosecution from the country's authorities. Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the suspension of Addis Neger, a weekly newspaper based in Addis Ababa.
Botswana's government has poured cold water on claims from ZANU PF that it is hosting so-called 'pirate radio' stations from its territory. Presidential spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsey issued a statement noting 'the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media' but said Botswana did not 'harbour any such radio stations.'
ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.
The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and ActionAid Liberia (AAL) will today launch a women's right reporting award for the Liberian media.
Journalists from across the West Africa region recently attended a media workshop in Accra, Ghana, hosted by Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) yesterday, 9 December 2009, welcomed the re-launch of Tanzanian Union of Journalists (TUJ).
The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), in its quest to make The Gambia a free malaria country, on Friday organised a dayÂ's training on malaria control and prevention for forty journalists from different media houses at its head office in Kanifing.
The government has been urged to come up with new policies that will lead to an equal distribution of national income to all Tanzanians. The call was made by the Tanzania Association of Non Governmental Organisations (Tango) yesterday.
Chansa Kabwela faced a five-year jail sentence when she sent photographs of a woman giving birth, without medical assistance while in the country's largest hospital, to government officials.
With marketing friendly pitch at the switch of a button rending the air, Kenya on Wednesday turned another decisive chapter in its quest to join the fast lane of the technological age.
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