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NewsPress * MediaUnited StatesTrump Accuses Twitter of interfering in U.S. Elections

PilotnewsMay 27, 2020

President Donald Trump has accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 U.S. election scheduled for Nov. 3 after the microblogging service provider tagged his tweet as misleading. Trump also lashed out at the company for “completely stifling free speech”, saying he would never let that happen as president. “@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. “They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect,...

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CoronavirusPress * MediaUnited StatesNew York Times Fills Front Page With Names of Virus Dead

PilotnewsMay 24, 2020

The New York Times has filled the front page of its Sunday edition with the names of those who have died from the novel coronavirus. All of the usual articles, photographs and graphics were replaced by the list of names and excerpts from their obituaries to memorialise the dead as the U.S. approaches the “grim milestone” of 100,000 coronavirus fatalities, the news outlet wrote. The assistant editor of the paper’s graphics desk Simone Landon said...

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Law & JusticeNigeriaPress * MediaJournalist Charged for Insulting Lai Mohammed After 17 Days in Custody

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)May 24, 2020

After being kept in police detention for 17 days, Rotimi Jolayemi, aka Oba Akewi, an Osun-based journalist has been charged for actions deemed to cause annoyance and insulting towards the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Five days ago, Segun Adeyemi, Mr Mohammed’s spokesman had denied that the Minister caused Mr Jolayemi’s arrest, according to Punch newspaper. The journalist was arrested for reading a poem during a radio programme which the Minister considered...

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NewsNigeriaPress * MediaTrouble Looms for ICIR, Legit.ng and PM News Over Flair Airline News Report

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)May 19, 2020

Trouble may be heading the way of some Nigerian media firms including the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Legit.ng and PM News Nigeria, because they incorrectly associated Flair Airlines to reports of an aircraft that allegedly contravened the restriction of commercial flights into Nigeria. On Sunday, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, tweeted that a British firm had been caught operating commercial flight into Nigeria under the guise of humanitarian operations. The minister had initially...

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BusinessCoronavirusNewsPress * MediaWorld NewsTwitter Announces Plans to Allow Employees to Work from Home Forever

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Reporter)May 13, 2020

The social media giant, Twitter, had announced on Tuesday, its plans to let all its employees who wish to work from home to do so for the foreseeable future. It says this will also be allowed in the post-COVID-19 world. The company made this known in a statement on Tuesday. The company said that the past few months had seen its staff work remotely is proof that it can work. The statement read in part,...

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NewsNigeriaPress * MediaNigeria Ranked 115 of 180 Countries of Press Liberty in the World – Index

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Reporter)May 11, 2020

Nigeria had been ranked 115 of the 180 countries of the world that enjoyed press free. The country moved from 120 that it was ranked in 2019 to 115 in 2020. According to the international non-profit organization, Reporters Without Borders, journalists in Nigeria operate under a “climate of permanent violence”.  It goes further to add that journalists in Nigeria “are often spied upon, attacked, arbitrarily arrested, or even killed.” The report reflected that a journalist had been...

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CoronavirusNigeriaPress * MediaAPC commends Adamawa Journalists In Containing COVID-19 Pandemic

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Regional Correspondent)May 10, 2020

The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Adamawa State, has commended the role being played by journalists and other stakeholders in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The state secretary of the party in the state Mr. Wafarniyi Theman while fielding questions from newsmen said despite the high-level risk they are subjected to, journalists in the state have continued to show unparalleled patriotism in their bid to enlighten and educate the people...

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NewsNigeriaPoliticsPress * MediaTSBS GM In Trouble As Activist Petitions Taraba Broadcasting Services for Allege Giscrimination

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Regional Correspondent)May 7, 2020

An Activist,  Dr. Sulaiman Bakari has petitioned the management of Taraba State Broadcasting Services (TSBS), for alleged marginalization and discrimination against Muslims Programs in the state. Bakari, a certified Criminal Investigative Analyst, by the FBI United States of America, USA in a letter to the General Manager of the station copied to Gov. Ishaku Darius, expressed concern over the sustained refusal of the state to air program relating to Ramadan. “Let me start by appreciating...

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Press * MediaUnited StatesReuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography; Alaska Newspaper Takes Public Service Award

PilotnewsMay 5, 2020

The Anchorage Daily News won the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism in collaboration with the investigative site ProPublica, while the photography staff of Reuters won the breaking news photography award for documenting last year’s violent protests in Hong Kong. The Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in American journalism, have been handed out since 1917, when newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer established them in his will. Monday’s announcement had been postponed for two weeks because some journalists...

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Press * MediaPress Freedom Day: NUJ Seeks Protection of Journalists

PilotnewsMay 3, 2020

The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on governments at all levels to take decisive steps in ensuring the protection of media workers to strengthen and maintain press freedom. Mr. Victor Udu, the Chairman of NUJ, Cross River Council, made the call in a statement to mark the World Press Freedom Day 2020 in on Sunday in Calabar. The appeal is also coming in the face of the uncertainty created by Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,...

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