Kogi Govt. Directs Own Media to Cover MDAs at Minimal Costs

BusinessPress * MediaKogi Govt. Directs Own Media to Cover MDAs at Minimal Costs

PilotnewsJuly 18, 2020

Kogi Government on Saturday directed its owned media organisations to cover the activities of the state’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) at reduced costs. The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, who gave the directives during a meeting with the management of state media organisations in Lokoja, said the directives were to enable the MDAs to project more of government programmes and activities to the people. Fanwo stressed that the management of...

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NUJ: NEON Congratulates Adamawa Correspondents’ Chapel’s New Leadership

Press * MediaNUJ: NEON Congratulates Adamawa Correspondents’ Chapel’s New Leadership

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)July 14, 2020

The North East Online Network of Nigeria NEON; an umbrella of online publishers in the northeast, has congratulated the newly elected executive members of the correspondents’ chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Adamawa state. In a statement, issued by chairman, Mr. Adamu Muhammad Dodo, NEON while congratulating the new Exco,  also commended the maturity exhibited  without rancor  by the congress members of the chapel in deciding the leadership through consensus. However, NEON prevailed  on...

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FG Sets to End DStv, Others’ Monopoly – Lai Mohammed

NewsNigeriaPress * MediaFG Sets to End DStv, Others’ Monopoly – Lai Mohammed

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)July 5, 2020

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plan to put an end to cable television service providers’ monopoly, one such is the Digital Satellite Television (DStv) which is owned by MultiChoice, a South Africa-based company. Federal Government plans include ending the exclusive rights to sporting events enjoy by DStv. Currently, only DStv has the right to broadcast major football competitions in Nigeria, especially the English Premier League. According to the government, Nigeria’s broadcasting code has...

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Trump to Issue Executive Order on Social Media — Reports

PoliticsPress * MediaUnited StatesTrump to Issue Executive Order on Social Media — Reports

PilotnewsMay 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on social media on Thursday, according to local media reports. The reports, citing unnamed White House officials, came a day after microblogging site, Twitter, tagged Trump’s  tweets on mail-in voting as misleading. In the tweets, the president told his over 80 million followers that voting through mail, otherwise known as mail-in ballots, was prone to fraud. Shortly after, Twitter tagged the tweets with a circled...

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Trump Accuses Twitter of interfering in U.S. Elections

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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New York Times Fills Front Page With Names of Virus Dead

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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Journalist Charged for Insulting Lai Mohammed After 17 Days in Custody

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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Trouble Looms for ICIR, Legit.ng and PM News Over Flair Airline News Report

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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Twitter Announces Plans to Allow Employees to Work from Home Forever

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

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)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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Nigeria Ranked 115 of 180 Countries of Press Liberty in the World – Index

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

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)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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