By Osaretin Ekiadolor The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Wednesday called for caution in implementation of the state of emergency, declared by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states of Nigeria. The NUJ also threatened to commence picketing of media houses that were yet to offset salaries owed to their workers from next Monday. Not less than five Lagos-based media houses are ...

New York, May 2, 2013—Unpunished, deadly violence continues to plague the press globally and has notably increased in Nigeria, according to the 2013 Impunity Index, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual ranking of countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free. “In countries where authorities fail to deliver justice in the killing of journalists, the result is more killi ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has strongly and unreservedly condemned the arrest of four Leadership newspaper journalists by the police, apparently acting on orders from above, for no reason other than for carrying out their constitutionally-assigned role. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the arrest, over a story the go ...

Publishers  of Kaduna based Hausa Newspaper  Al Mizan have demanded the release of the paper’s editor, Musa Muhammad Awwal who has been  rearrested by security operatives . Editor in Chief of the paper ,Ibrahim Musa  said in a statement, “On behalf of the I. M. Publication, publishers of Al-Mizan Newspaper, we hereby call for the immediate and unconditional release of Musa Muhammad Awwal whose arrest has vi ...

By Citizen Reporter The exact magnitude of the scam is still being investigated by the security agencies ,but insiders say an on-going secret recruitment scam is causing disquiet within and outside the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria,FRCN. Sources have revealed that the Minister of Information ,Mr Labaran Maku and the Director General of FRCN ,Mallam Yusuf Nuhu  may  have succumbed to “all manner of pr ...

Distinguished Fellows and members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Yes, I have thrown my hat into the ring to succeed Mr. Gbenga Adefaye as president of our association, the Nigerian Guild of Editors. Why, some people may ask. Or rather, as some people have been asking, why must an Adesina succeed an Adefaye in a position, in such a plural country as this? Here's why. In the past four years, I have served ...

Nigeria’s authoritative online newspaper, News Express, and the African Press Organization (APO) have sealed a content partnership agreement designed to significantly expand the reach of both organisations. “This partnership agreement sealed after exhaustive deliberations is worth celebrating as it will not only add value to our offering but also help fast-track the realisation of our ambition to become Afr ...

Yola -based GOTEL Communications Ltd believed to be owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar  has written a petition to security agencies in the light of threats to its workers and property.Read the petition below: 22nd January, 2013 Dear Sir, COMPLAINT ON INTIMIDATION, THREAT TO LIVES OF STAFF AND PROPERTIES OF GOTEL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED, YOLA BY A PERSON CLAIMIMG TO BE THE CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER  T ...

Delta state government is to key into the new educational initiative of DAAR Communications in order to promote academic excellence in the state. The State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who announced this when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DAAR Communications and his management team paid him a courtesy call in Asaba, said the state would quickly embrace the initiative and set up a technical committ ...

One of the new entrants into the newspaper business in the country, Nigeria Today may soon be embroiled in copyright tussles.A press release emailed to Newsdiaryonline.com today  has accused the new newspaper, which a Thisday report said is packaged by “Friends of the Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison Madueke” ,of  "copyright infringement". Joel C. Dappa, Publisher, Nigeria Today Publications  expressed sh ...