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NIGERIA`S MEDIA WATCHDOG
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BOOK LAUNCH: Lanre Idowu presents 2 books
 Lanre Idowu, editor-in-chief of Media Review, presented two books on Thursday, July 16 at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island. The books cover two different genres, poetry, and prose, namely, Bridges of Memory and The Popular is Seldom Correct: Selected Writings on Governance, Media, and Democracy (1984-2009). Newspaper publishers, journalists, judges, friends and lovers of the arts, and various professionals attended the event, which marked the 30th anniversary of the author’s graduation from the University of Lagos. They include: Mr. Sam Amuka-Pemu, publisher of the Vanguard titles, Chief Ajibola Ogunshola, chairman of Punch Nig. Ltd, Mr. Frank Aigbogun, publisher of Business day, Prince Tony Momoh, media scholar and former Information Minister,
Hon. Justice Omotayo Onalaja, retired justice of the Court of Appeal and the Press Ombudsman, Mr. Gbenro Adegbola, managing director Evans Publishers, Mrs. Ronke Fetuga, CEO Florence and Lambard Bookstores, Mr. Mosuro, CEO, Mosuro Booksellers, and Messrs Dapo Olufade and Niyi Adesina, respectively, editors of Sunday Vanguard and Newsstar.
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The Press on the Ekiti re-run
 Resolving the crisis of legitimacy in who occupies the Ekiti Government House was never expected to be a tea party. Two years ago, the nationwide elections which included the Ekiti elections that ushered in the successor administration to that of President Olusegun Obasanjo were so shoddy, they were adjudged to be the worst in Nigerian history. It was that election that brought in Olusegun Oni into Government House, Ado-Ekiti. For two years, his main challenger, Kayode Fayemi, strove to prove in the law courts that Oni was an impostor. By the time the court finally decided on February 17, it was to order a re-run in 65 wards in 10 local governments. The results in the remaining two wards and five local governments were upheld. By that decision, Fayemi was leading the race with 26,026 votes compared to Oni's 15,042 votes pending the re-run ordered.
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 Advertising copy: the language, message, medium
Copy in advertising means the wordings of an advertisement. It is the text of an ad. The text of an advertisement usually conveys a certain message designed and intended by the advertiser and the advertising agency. This is a communicative activity. This suggests that the message must not only get to the target audience but must be well understood by him.
There could be times when the audience receives the message clean and clear but does not understand. Their understanding might have been affected by the language of communication (semantic noise). In this type of situation, communication is said to be efficient but not effective. On the other hand, the message may not get to the audience at all, for some reasons. It might be that the audience does not have access to the media of communication or there is a channel noise (a situation where the letters in print cannot be read or the TV pictures are blurred or the radio signal is so bad that a listener cannot make a sense out of the broadcast).
In planning and design of any communicative activity such as advertising, the advertising agency is expected to work with adequate data on the target audience: Their profile, lifestyle, media uses and habit.
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Dangogo's Praxis
 Philosophers define praxis as the theorization of practice and the application of theory. Exactly that is what Kabir Dangogo has done in his book, “Beyond The Banking Hall.” Dangogo in the 245-page book with the first 17 pages being for the credits, brought out how the theories or principles of public relations were turned into practice in banks, thereby bringing up new vistas to the practice.
The book with 13 chapters started with “From Journalism to Public Relations”. In chapter two, Dangogo discussed “Understanding Public Relations” with “Banking on Public Relations” being the third as “Handling the Bank CEO” covered the fourth chapter along with “The BON Voyag”” in chapter five which is followed by “The Union Bank Case Study.”
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Military expedition in the Niger Delta
WHATEVER might have triggered the on-going military expedition in the Niger Delta, the onslaught represents a dramatic phase in the government's containment policy towards the atrocities of the militants in the oil-rich region. For the past fortnight, the Joint Task Force has bombarded the militants' hideout, particularly the notorious camp 5 in the creeks of Delta State. The military have scorched villages and razed the fabulous home of Tompolo, a notorious militant kingpin, who has now been declared wanted - dead or alive. By last weekend, the operations extended to Rivers State, where militants also have their camps.
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Daily Sun, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Pg. 16
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