How long did it take you to buy fuel into your car last week? And, at what cost, time and money? Now, how much of that hard-earned fuel did you burn in unnecessary traffic jam, much of it caused by queues at the few filling stations dispensing fuel? It is a cycle; we were at…
NGE Wants Govt To Partner Media Against Societal Ills
The Nigerian Guild of Editors has charged the government to see journalists as partners in the war against corruption and other ills. It says in a release to commemorate world press freedom day today that in line with the global theme of the event “journalism must thrive in Nigeria, if we must arrive at…
Alison-Madueke drags APC, Media To Court Over Missing $20bn
Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, has requested the court to stop the APC, 10 other individuals and organizations from further reporting on the controversial missing $20billion oil money. Alison-Madueke sought and obtained an interim injunction restraining the parties involved from “publishing or causing to be published any further defamatory statements,” stating or suggesting…
PDP Clears the Air Over Ward Congresses
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State chapter, has said that the information making the rounds that the party’s Congress conducted on November 1 across the country has been cancelled, is false and should be regarded as the handiwork of self seeking individuals. The party made the statement on Tuesday in a press release signed…
Again, TELL Leads At Media Merit Award
The year 2014 is another outstanding and rewarding one for TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL magazine, as its reporters swept 13 out of 39 awards at the just concluded 2014 Nigerian Media Merit Awards, NMMA, held in Owerri, Imo State on Saturday. TELL magazine, which won the WAMCO Prize for Newsmagazine of the year,…
Jideonwo, Williams Others Bag 2014 CNBC Africa Award
Chude Jideonwo, 29 and Adebola Williams, 28, co-founders of Red Media Africa have emerged winners of the 2014 edition of CNBC Africa All Africa Young Business Leader of the year. The young Nigerians are the founders of Future Awards Africa, Y! Africa – the magazine, Ynaija.com and Red Communication. The innovation that gave them the…