Nigerian journalists Archives

Two German based Nigerian journalists unite against unplanned migration

On September 1, 20189:20 amIn Newsby Nwafor

Kenneth Gbandi and Femi Awoniyi are two Nigerian journalists plying their trade in Germany. Gbandi publishes African Heritage, the first African life style magazine with base in Hamburg Germany.

Nigerian journalists economically handicapped—Prof Utomi

On July 6, 20184:17 amIn Newsby Emmanuel Okogba

RENOWNED communicator, political economist and chairman, Centre for Values and Leadership, CVL, Prof Pat Utomi has said that the economy of media practitioners in Nigeria diminishes its capacity for performance as journalists are financially handicapped to carry out their duties as members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm.

Media scholars agree Nigerian journalists work in terrible economic conditions

On May 7, 20183:49 amIn The Artsby Emmanuel Okogba

It was a rare case of intellectual consensus last week Thursday, May 3, 2018, when media scholars of the Lagos State University School of Communication agreed, through all the scholarly papers presented in group B during the one-day conference which marked the 2018 World Press Freedom Day, that Nigerian journalists work in one of the worst economic conditions in the world.

Corruption in Nigeria: Is it a perception?

On December 1, 201312:04 amIn Nigeria Todayby vanguard

There appears to be some measure of unanimity among analysts both within and outside Nigeria that the nation is a highly corrupt society. The country’s successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 do not quite agree. This can be deduced from certain viewpoints that are usually officially canvassed on behalf of the nation. The first is that there is corruption everywhere, making it obvious that it is not peculiar to Nigeria. Some say, if the British knew nothing about corruption, the term would not have evolved as an English word.