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NIGERIA`S MEDIA WATCHDOG
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MEDIA REVIEW December 2004 | In the News |
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At last, recognition for the media
 The 2004 national honours list, released to the public October 14, is one full of surprises. The list or rather the names on the list, no doubt, is a conversation starter any day. And the conversations have started already. But not withstanding the various debates the names are generating, December 16 will see 194 deserving Nigerians and foreign nationals queue up to receive their awards and medals from President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The formal disclosure of the names by the Federal Government is usually eagerly anticipated every year by the media and Nigerians alike. The award giving ceremony itself is usually well reported in the Nigerian media. More often than not, the release of the names to the public and its reportage have a domino effect as many articles, commentaries, editorials and news pieces are written about the list in the media. This year’s list was no exception
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Headline News
- DTN repackages Business Times
Nigeria’s foremost business publication, Business Times, has been repackaged to meet the challenges of the growing business publication segment of the Nigerian newspaper industry. The repackaged Business Times, made is entrance on the newsstand December 20. As part of its repackaging, the publication is now published twice a week, coming out every Monday and Thursday, as against its former Monday only publication date.
- New journalism fellowship launched
The International Women Media Foundation [IWMF] has launched a new journalism fellowship to support women who report on human rights and social justice. The fellowship, opened to women journalists working in the print, broadcast or on the internet who report on human rights and social justice issues, provides one year of academic esearch at leading Boston area universities and reporting opportunities at the New York Times and the Boston Globe.
- For quick customer response, think crazy
Watching TV these days,
there is no way one
will not see the most ingenious commercials playing themselves out. From a dark liquid signing a name [Guinness Stout] to a cheetah chasing a man [Lucosade Boost] to a loud party scene with young bohemian people [Sony] to two gorgeously dressed women riding an okada [Vmobile].
- Lessons from the US elections
I became convinced about the need to write this piece last Wednesday when I watched Senator John Kerry giving his concession speech after it became obvious he had lost the US presidential election. I was highly impressed by the scene in and out of that hall in Boston, Massachusetts where the man who fought so hard to unseat President George Bush (jnr) conceded victory. Long before he came, the crowd of supporters had massed in the venue. Even in defeat, Kerry’s supporters were ecstatic and proud that they had worked hard to unseat President Bush and that they had supported a man they believe could do a good job.
- Soon, we will be working for the Minister
Some persons who obviously love the press more than it loves itself are preparing a brew, which will ensure that the Nigerian press remains a lapdog now and forever.
And it’s all in the public interest. While public attention was riveted on the dramatic end of marshal rule in Jose and the mayhem in Anambra State, Senator Jonathan Zwingina and co, were furiously pushing through a bill that harnessed the worst aspects of the Labour Reforms Bill and the Media Practice Enhancement Bill.
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 Saluting Media Aspirations to Excellence
It is heart-warming to be associated with an occasion in which media are being congratulated, not cursed; at which journalists are being rewarded for their skill, not punished either for their courage or for their folly. In many parts of the world today, journalists are still being tortured, imprisoned, even murdered in the line of duty. Where these life-threatening dangers are not present, and perhaps in addition to them, journalists are being constantly seduced to abandon professional ethics and standards and through ‘embedding’ or bribes and other corrupting inducements; and our own country is not exempted...| Read more
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Corruption as terrorism
Most Americans may be amazed at the passionate interest shown by the rest of the world in the last presidential election in their country. The fact is that A American is occupying a unique position in the world today. It is the most powerful, richest and most influential country in the world.
Sadly, during the campaign, one part of the world that was hardly mentioned was Africa, for his first time, Africa hardly mattered to Bush. Yet Africa is right to expect America to be concerned with its problem, especially now that President Bush has won a second term of four years...| Read more
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 Sordid tales from the oil sector
Most likely, Nigerians would shrug at the recent disclosure by the House of Representatives of the reported pawning of an oil bloc to the hairdresser of the wife of a former president.
According to the Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources, Cairo Ojougbo, the lucrative block, allocated to the hairdresser in the 90s, was hawked in the streets of Europe to no success until the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) came to the rescue, paying for 30 per cent of the share, while another unnamed Joint Venture partner equally bought into the highly lucrative bloc said to have the capacity of producing 150,000 barrels oil per day, and worth an estimated one billion dollars...|Read more
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