Tag: NIGERIAN MEDIA

Media to inaugurate National Complaints Commission

Aminu Imam

In the bid to strengthen public confidence in the media as a credible barometer of public opinion, the Nigerian media will on Monday inaugurate the nine-member board of the National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), otherwise known as the National Ombudsman. Members of the commission who are drawn from the media, the bar, the academia, and civil society are former Managing Director, Guardian newspapers Emeka Izeze (Chairman); former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), A. B Mahmoud, (SAN); Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Academics) Paul University, Awka, Anambra State, Prof. Chinyere Stella Okunna;…

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Ahmed Tijjani Ramalan emerges ‘Media Personality of the Year 2021 Leadership Excellence’ award winner

Aminu Imam

Aminu Imam The Executive Chairman, Atar Communications Nigeria Ltd, (owners of the Group of Liberty TV & FM Radio stations), Alh. (Dr.) Ahmed Tijjani Ramalan, has emerged as the winner for the ”Media Personality of the Year 2021 Leadership Excellence Award‘, by Igbere TV, organisers of the award event. According to the voting result for the category, Dr. Ramalan polled 32,158 votes out of the total votes of 93,027 cast, to beat Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman/Editor-in-Chief, ThisDay newspapers, who scored 23,556 votes. Broadcast journalist and Chairman and CEO of Channels Television, John Momoh, got the third…

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Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany blames ‘negative media’ for fuelling insecurity

Aminu Imam

Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has said that ‘negative media reports’ are to be blamed for rising insecurity in the West African country. Tuggar made the claim in an interview with Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) where he spoke on the state of Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Over 300 school children have been abducted in Nigeria between February and May 2021, mostly in the northeast region due to activities of Boko Haram, bandits and other insurgency groups. Although the Nigerian government claimed that it is…

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Wage war against fake news, Gov. AbdulRasaq urges Nigerian media

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has urged the media in Nigeria to fight the menace of fake news before it brings down the country. AbdulRasaq made this call in Ilorin today during the 2020 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).The governor, represented by the state Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Harriet Afolabi-Oshartimehin, said that the events of the past weeks in the country had shown the danger of fake news and unverified or one-sided accounts of events. This, he said,…

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