Lagos-based American radio personality Daniel ‘Dan’ Foster – popularly known as The Big Dawg and Top Dawg is dead. According to sources, Foster died around 1 pm today. While the cause of his death is yet to be confirmed, as,…
The International Press Centre (IPC) has called for the immediately release of kidnapped female reporter of the Nigeria television Authority, Mrs. Chinyere Okoye. Mrs Okoye was kidnapped in Abia by some gunmen on Wednesday night after close of work. She…
The New York Times unveiled an astonishing cover for Sunday’s paper, featuring the names of 1,000 victims of Covid-19. “Instead of the articles, photographs or graphics that normally appear on the front page of The New York Times, on Sunday, there is…
Ofcom, United Kingdom broadcasting regulation company, has sanctioned Loveworld Television Network, a broadcast station belonging to Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, for comments by Oyakhilome that goes against their regulations. Ofcom said the comment by Oyakhilome has the tendency of harming the…
By Tayo Elegbede | Humanity is at the centre of an unprecedented pandemic waxed by the novel coronavirus. The most dangerous part of the COVID-19 reality is not the biological structure of the virus but how people react to it. Across the…
Before the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, some media organisations have been defaulting in payment of salaries and allowances of their staff. The situation has however become complicated with virtually all the major media houses unable to meet their normal…
By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher on February 13, 2020 As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work and their personal lives were…
The BBC World Service would be hosting its next world debate, in Lagos, Nigeria. The BBC has been hosting debates across the world giving citizens the opportunity to question politicians, leaders and opinion formers face to face. According to the…
Vanessa Nakate is a 23-year-old climate activist from Uganda who this week attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. On Friday, she took part in a news conference with Greta Thunberg and other activists ahead of a Fridays for Future…
By Ijeoma Ukazu The National President, Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria (APN), Dr. Taiwo Sheikh has blamed the high incidents of suicide in Nigeria on lack of prevention strategies and programmes by the government. Sheikh made the assertion at the…
