By Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga It is laughably tragic that the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY and Arise News Television, Mr Nduka Obaigbena has the temerity to pretend to be a guardian of public morality in contemporary Nigerian media practice. The fact that this character is an unscrupulous hustler and blackmailer who has done tremendous damage to the journalism …

The media is not helping matters. Listen to radio stations across the land all you get is doom about the nation and calumny against candidates for office. The more doom they announce or allow on their airwaves the more audience they get and the more money they make. For them, it is all about cash. It’s not a surprise after …

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has yet again confirmed that it would not participate in the Presidential Town Hall meeting, which Arise TV News scheduled for Sunday. The campaign council had earlier announced its position on the Town Hall meeting. Last month, the campaign spokesman, Barrister Festus Keyamo said: “Firstly, many radio and TV networks in …

Arise TV has been in the news for the wrong reasons, most recently for the unfortunate broadcast of a forged statement of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for which the station had to recently pay a fine imposed on it by the National Broadcasting  Commission (NBC). Regrettably, it seems that no lessons have been learnt from this unfortunate incident. …