Recent reports emanating from the all pervading Western media machines about the various stages of illness and death of the North Korean President Kim Il Sung which was copiously regurgitated in the Nigerian press should have given the editorial gurus
Members of the Press Union of Liberia yesterday observed the 44th anniversary of the union with a call for them (journalists) to be good and honest journalists.
The Voice of Nigeria (VON) transmitting station in Abuja would be completed by the first quarter of 2009, according to Alhaji Abubakar Jijiwa, the station's Director-General.
It was the 29th of Sha'aban. I sat in my sitting room awaiting news on the sighting of the Holy Moon of Ramadan. NTA Kaduna was hooked to the network service of the NTA. Each time I tuned the TV
A newspaper owned by Government still owes the Receiver of Revenue N$990 000 because it did not pay taxes deducted from its employees for several years, although they were deducted from their salaries, a Parliamentary committee heard yesterday.
I ran into Yinka Craig some time in 1997 or so when I went to the NTA for one of their Morning Ride programmes. I arrived that morning and it seemed I had been scheduled to be interviewed by a
Last week saw 200 African broadcasters and film-makers gather for the first genuinely pan-African conference for these two important sectors. There was a palpable excitement in the air as participants realised that the African broadcast and film industries are at
At programs marking the 44th anniversary of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) on Tuesday, the Deputy Minister of Information, Mr. Cletus Sieh announced that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has donated US$100,000 to the PUL to assist with the construction of
El Malick Seck, jailed editor-in-chief of the privately-owned newspaper "24 Heures Chrono", will appear in a Dakar court on 28 October 2008 to answer defamation charges brought against him by the country's Minister of the Interior, Sheikh Tidiane Sy.
Not long ago several groups of women including non-governmental organizations advocated through the media for government to pass the domestic violence law.
The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation should be "protected" from the commercial interests that drive most private media to boost its public service role, according to top media managers.
THE preamble to article xix of the political agreement signed between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations instructs the new government to take "appropriate measures" to ensure that the public media refrains from using abusive language that may incite hostility,
THE Publisher of The Chronicle and a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Effia-Kwesimintsim constituency in the Western region, Nana Kofi Coomson on Tuesday joined the Muslim community in his constituency to celebrate this year's