If you were to look across the Nigerian media landscape, you would be an incurable optimist to not find the view distressing. The Nigerian media is renowned for its vibrancy and for famously leading a pushback against the military between …
The appearance of Habeeb Okikiola otherwise known as Portable at campaign rally as guests of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Davido for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osogbo, Osun State, has elicited comments from many Nigerians. While most …
Even the uninitiated acknowledges that journalism has changed permanently. That journalism has been in a state of flux because of the digitalization of media is not in doubt since we all encounter the effects of the changes in our everyday …
Nigeria has always been an interesting case. It’s the richly endowed country that is also home to some of the world’s poorest. It is where sprawling mansions exist in close proximity to slums. For some unexplainable reason, we have struggled …
You can be forgiven if you think the present administration’s failure with regards to its communication began only last Monday with that embarrassing leak of the President’s national address. True, there was substantial goodwill when that famous victory was won …
This year’s Big Brother Nigeria made the headlines but mostly for all the wrong reasons. Except for the purists though, it probably was a record-breaking performance for the organisers of the reality show that continues to divide opinion in equal …
I had just received through the kind consideration of a Nigerian academic based in South Africa, a report on the state of South African research and was busy with it when the British Broadcasting Corporation. (BBC) aired its report on …
By: Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, and Chris Paterson, University of Leeds An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa annually is for media development. Foreign aid funds diverse …
When Olamide shocked live and watching audiences with his rant at the 2015 Headies Award by boasting, ‘street ti take over,’ he very well may have been speaking to the emerging trend of digital hate mobs. Some recent events and …
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