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By Aderoju Noah  Co-founder and Director of Programs, YIAGA Africa, Cynthia Mbamalu has charged young Nigerians to impact the politics in their states with their powers of number and energy. The Lawyer cum human and gender rights advocates at the Town Hall Meeting organised by the Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF) under the Campus Civic Media Campaign supported by OSIWA charged participants from campus media/journalist groups in tertiary institutions across Lagos state present at the event to not only sit down and observe the turn out at the coming polls but also impact it by voting in their large numbers. Mbamalu who noted that the youth population accounted for the highest percentage of participants in the 2019 general elections with 51.1% to them alone said, Lagos state, even with its high population has one of the lowest youth participation percentage during the election. She said the generation known to be the "sorosoke" generation is running from the best ...

By Aderoju Noah Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi delivering the 6th NIJ Convocation Lecture in the school hall. Picture by Gbolahan Adegbite . Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has urged the media to support  nation-building efforts and the security of the country. Fayemi made the call in the 6th Convocation Lecture of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) he delivered in Lagos on Monday. The Governor who was the guest speaker, spoke on the topic "Media, Security and Nation Building"  He noted that the function of the media in a liberal democratic state include surveillance of development, agenda setting, providing accessible platforms intelligible and illuminating advocacy. He added that the media should hold public officials accountable, motivate citizens about politics and participation in civic life.  Recalling the role played by pioneers of the Nigerian press during the colonial and post colonial era, Fayemi said they saw their work as a nation-bui...

By Esther Olaifa Ekiti state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has recommended that the media must promote inclusion rather than sectarian exclusion. Fayemi said this at the 50th Anniversary & 6th Convocation  of The Nigerian Institute of Journalism during his lecture on ' Media, National Security and Nation Building', recently. He provided the background of the role of the media in strengthening national security and deepening democracy in Nigeria. "We can say in the Nigerian context, ‘No Media, no nation!’ And we will mean this" He opined as he acknowledged the fact that there can be no true democracy without an independent media, but also in the specific reality of Nigeria: that without the important work and sacrifices by the pro-democracy press, Nigeria could not have had democratic rule today. He  emphasized the fact that intellection has been at the centre of a certain tradition of the Nigerian press. This is also why media intellectuals have had a lot of useful ...

  The full text of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism's 6th Convocation Lecture topic: "The Media, National Seecurity and Nation Building" delivered by Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi on the 29th of November 2021. Protocols   1. Mr Chairman, Provost, Management, Graduands, Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to be here today to deliver the sixth convocation lecture of this great Institution and to be part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of this historic and unique citadel of learning.  2. There is no doubt that the Nigerian Institute of Journalism is the oldest journalism school in Nigeria having been established in 1963 by the International Press Institute which was interested in the training of professional journalists in Africa at that time. Although NIJ  officially took off in 1971 and had to trail the now defunct Times Institute of Journalism which took off in 1965, it has remained the face of the finest professional institution for the t...

By Oladunni Ayobami  Parag Agarwal New Twitter CEO and Jack Dorsey, Founder, former CEO of Twitter Parag Agrawal will become the new face of the micro-blogging platform company, Twitter as Jack Dorsey stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer. This became known when the ex-CEO, Jack Dorsey, on Monday, posted on his Twitter handle a screenshot of his resignation letter saying, "Not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter." Agrawal has however been serving diligently and loyally as the company's Chief Technology Officer since 2017 before he was officially announced as the Chief Executive Officer starting Monday. The resignation letter reads in full: Hello team. After almost 16 years of having a role at our company…..from co-founder to CEO to Chair to Exec Chair to interim-CEO to CEO…I decided it’s finally time for me to leave. Why? There’s a lot of talk about the importance of a company being ‘founder-led.’ Ultimately I believe that’s severely limiting and a si...

By Aderoju Noah.  All roads leads to the Ogba Campus of the Nigerian Institute Of Journalism as it celebrates its 50th anniversary and 6th Convocation with a media lecture and exhibition today and Award and certificate presentation tomorrow. The lecture which will be given by the Executive Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi will hold in the NIJ Auditorium by 11 am WAT will be chaired by the Vice-Chairman of the NIJ Governing Council, Mr Ray Ekpu. In a conversation with the school PRO, Mr Tolulope Ojemuyiwa, he said:  "Yes, the Institution with a visionary Governing Council and formidable management is absolutely ready to host people for the event."  "Many dignitaries and captains of the industry have been invited as guests and special guests, including great alumni of the institution and they've all promised to attend. The various committees and sub committees are working day and night to see that every arrangements work according to plan". The school al...

 By Aderoju Noah Nigerian Institute of Journalism ( NIJ ) Alumnus, Sharon Ijasan of TVC has been nominated for the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting( WSAIR ). Announced in the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism's press release of Saturday 27th November 2021, Ijasan is one of the five females out of the 14 nominees for the 16th edition of the annual award whose public presentation will be held on Thursday, 9 December 2021, at NECA House, Lagos, from 4 pm to 6 pm. The nominees were shortlisted from 222 entries received during the call for applications, the highest number of entries received since the inception of the award in 2005. Ijasan, a graduate of Mass Communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism is a Senior Reporter Education & Labour Correspondent, Host Labour Lens at TVC. She won the 2019 Wole Soyinka award for Investigative Reporting, Television Category with her story on the decay of basic infrastructure in African Bethe...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu recently visited his alma mater, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos to felicitate with his former lecturers in celebration of World Teacher's Day.  Teachers’ Day is a global observance and was held this year on October 5. More than 100 countries commemorate World Teachers’ Day and each country holds its own celebrations.  Teachers’ Day is an occasion that pays a tribute to the teachers and tends to resolve some of the issues regarding their profession and hence tries to attract the brightest young minds towards this profession. Various organizations like UNESCO, Education International (EI), UNICEF, UNDP, the International Labor Organization (ILO), etc. organize campaigns and conferences to achieve this goal.  UNESCO allocates a Theme for this Day every year and campaigns focus on this theme. This year's event was themed -  “ Teachers at the heart of education recovery ”. The agency presented the...

By Qasim Akinreti, PhD  FIFTY years is remarkable in the life of anyone, organisation or even a Nation. Instructively, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, - Center of Excellence for media training in Africa is celebrating.  At inception in 1963, three Journalism training centres focusing mainly on the training of journalists and professionals (on the job) in the field of journalism were established in Lagos, Kenya and Tanzania with the support of the International Press Institute, IPI, The Poynter Institute of Media Studies, St Petersburg Florida, US provided manpower support to the school, Dr Boye Ola (one of Nigeria’s Photojournalists top notches) was there. Lekan Otunfodurin and I were Poynter Alumni too.  Today, both of us are part-time lecturers at NIJ. NIJ, the vision was clear, is to be the leading and foremost Mass Communication and Journalism training Institution in Africa; “the Centre of Communication Excellence. Expectedly, the mission was apt, an ...

  By Our Correspondent The board and management of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism , Lagos, is seeking University status for the institution as it begins its journey into the second half of a century. The Provost of the Institute, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, disclosed the plan at the press briefing announcing plans for the 6th Convocation and 50th anniversary of the institution's operation as a school of journalism in Nigeria. Adefaye noted the reputation of the school as a great training institute with a strong history, being the third training institute in the country after the University of Nigeria, Nsuka (UNN) and University of Lagos (UNILAG). Established in 1963 by the International Press Institute, NIJ became fully operational in 1971 originally awarding Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Journalism only till it evolved into a monotechnic under the regulation of the National Board for Technical Education in 2004. It thereafter started running National Diploma, Higher National ...

The sixth convocation of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism ( NIJ ), Ogba, Lagos, will hold on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th of November, 2021. The ceremony, according to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Institute, Mr Tolulope Ojemuyiwa will take place at the school auditorium.  Ojemuyiwa explained that this year's convocation is  unique one as it coincides with the 50th anniversary of the school which became operational in 1971 after being established in 1963 by the International Press Institute. Activities for two days includes: Convocation Lecture to be delivered by the Executive Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Monday, 29th of November 2021; Photo and Entrepreneurship Product Exhibition.  Others are Certificates and Award of Fellowship Presentation to the graduands by the Chairman of the Governing Council, Chief Olusegun Osoba on Tuesday, 30th of November, 2021. The school will award Diploma and Professional certificates to over 900 grad...

By Our Reporters The sixth convocation of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, will hold on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. The ceremony, according to a statement by the Provost of the institution, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, will take place at the school auditorium.  Mr Adefaye also said that the event coincides with the 50th founding anniversary of the school founded in 1971.