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NIGERIA`S MEDIA WATCHDOG
Diamond Publications Limited is a dynamic publishing company that has distinguished itself in magazine and book publishing since its incorporation in 1989. Its main products are focused on the Nigerian media.
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The World Cup Fever
 Football's greatest event has berthed in Africa. The World Cup, 80 years after it was first held in Uruguay, is here for all of Africa, and truly the world, to savour. It is a refreshing change that Africa is truly the centre of the world for a month, June 11 to July 11, 2010 for something exhilaratingly positive.
In Nigeria, all sorts of promotions are ongoing in the media in the determined effort to get a good share of the audience's attention. Predict and win football results, quiz programmes to test the public's understanding of the sport, are some of the defining contents of these promotions. For the telephone companies, it is an occasion for a harvest of sales as viewers and readers are urged to send their answers via text messages.
Football's allure as a sport of passion, unity, and big business is being deftly exploited. Various media organs have despatched their leading sports journalists to South Africa to serve as their ears, eyes and voices, to give nuanced perspectives to the football's greatest event. Relationships are being strengthened as many men have added reason to stay at home and watch the round ball game. Others, not willing to be at the mercy of the epileptic public power supply, crowd recreational clubs till late evenings to watch their favourite teams perform. Those who do not belong to such clubs troop to viewing centres. Pay television subscriptions are being hurriedly renewed; new television sets purchased and faulty old ones fixed, all in the bid for a piece of the World cup action. ..| Read more
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In a nutshell
By Carol Mgbolu
A traditional ruler, the Deji of Akure, Oba Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina (Osupa III), in the company of his current wife, Olori Remi Abiola-Adesina and some palace guards, had on May 30 allegedly invaded No. 141 Hospital Road, Akure, where his estranged wife, Olori Bolanle, was domiciled.
Accounts differ on what transpired there. The king said his party had gone there to perform traditional rites to formally remove Bolanle as a wife and stop her from dressing like one. Bolanle's camp said the party had come to assault her by throwing injurious chemicals on her body. Whatever the truth, a fight broke out, resulting in body harm to Bolanle and destruction of the king's car that conveyed the palace guards. Most press reports published Bolanle's seared body and the king's smashed vehicle.
The issue attracted sufficient public interest for the state government to query the king, and subsequently on June 10 dethrone, banish and detain him in Owo, 40 kilometres from Akure. The State government has subsequently directed the Akure kingmakers and the Akure South local government to commence the process that would lead to the emergence and installation of a new Deji of Akure...| Read more
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Don't blame it on the name
By Lanre Idowu
When it comes to naming their children, the Yorubas, like many indigenous peoples of Africa, do not believe that names are neutral. To them a child's name is a big deal, often reflecting the parents' station in life, their hopes and aspirations.
Oluwadare (the Lord vindicates) and Oluwadamilare (the Lord vindicates me) are two variants of the current Deji of Akure's first name, which will be intensely tested if he is to wriggle out of his current travails. Oba O. A. Adepoju, the incumbent Deji, Sunday, May 30, in the company of some aides, visited his estranged wife, Bolanle, who had packed out of the palace. Rather than a welcome party at her Akure residence, a hostile reception met the king's party. Bolanle was physically assaulted. A well circulated photograph of her shows her badly burnt hands as the tell tale signs of the assault. A less prominent photograph showed the king's SUV damaged by Bolanle's sympathisers. The king, reportedly, managed to escape by holing up in a gutter...| Read more
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 KNOCK to the Nigerian Press for neglecting the principle of accuracy in news reporting. The May 30 street fight involving a traditional ruler, the Deji of Akure, and his estranged wife provided great copy for the press in June. We are not bothered with the salacious details of the domestic quarrel, but the inability of the press to identify the king's name correctly. According to The Punch, he is Oluwadare Adeshina, while Sunday Punch calls him, Oluwadamilare Adeshina. Vanguard named him Oluwadare Adepoju; Nation, Oluwadare Adesina Adepoju; and Daily Independent, Oluwadare Adesina. From the foregoing the Nation captured his full names, the forename, middle and surname. So while Vanguard is correct to call him Oluwadare Adepoju, the Punch and Independent were wrong to have omitted the surname. A little diligence would have spared the reader the confusion of worrying if it was the same person that the papers were referring to...| Read more
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IMAGES OF DEMOCRACY
By Tam Fiofori
 After Nigeria celebrated her 11th Democracy Day on May 29th 2010, it is becoming to examine some of the iconic visual images which capture Nigeria's new resolve to enthrone and sustain democracy. These photographic images also serve as inspirational reminders that democracy is a collective effort that involves Nigerians over-18, male and female and across all social strata.
In many ways, the real heroes of our democracy are the voters who brave all odds; including the vagaries of the natural elements and long uncomfortable waits on open-air queues to perform their civic duty of voting! It is therefore, extremely disheartening, when our elected politicians do not reciprocate and show some gratitude by offering genuine service and concrete sustainable programmes that make life much better for the so-called masses or electorate.
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The Gas Explosion in Kaduna
THISDAY
The prompt response of government may have saved the lives of the over 500 persons who were affected by the poisonous gas from a disused gas cylinder in Kaduna, when a local welder cut it open.
According to media reports, a local blacksmith who deals in old metals popularly called scrap, Sokejon Enterprises Ltd, had contracted the services of the local welder to cut the old cylinder into pieces so it can be sold. No sooner had the welder cut open the cylinder than a harsh offensive odour emitted from it.
The incident raises the issue of the need to confirm the kind of businesses that can be allowed to take place in residential areas. Surely, not all kinds of businesses are suitable in residential areas. But poor law enforcement has led to the siting of all manner of business ventures in and around homes. In many cities, purely residential areas have been turned into business or even industrial areas. The result is that several people suffer high degree of pollution.
- THISDAY Jun 09, 2010
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