Two civil advocacy groups – Dataphyte and the Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development (PRIMORG) – have urged the Nigerian media industry and citizens to adopt the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in demanding good governance and accountability from leaders. Dataphyte developed Nubia, an open-source AI tool that draws insight from data provided and turns it into readable and relatable …

The Patriots for Peace and Social Development has said that is alarmed by the “sensational” reportage in a major newspaper, which was published on 28 September 2024. According to the group, the story did not state the specific court and judge that purportedly heard the matter of the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Matawalle, and “okay” it. Matawalle …

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has charged the media not to limit the collaborative engagement between the army and media to reporting conflicts, terrorism or security threats alone but to extend their engagements in national development, peacebuilding and community engagement. Lt. Gen. Lagbaja stated this during the 2024 second quarter media chat on Nigeria Army civil-military …

Burkina Faso has suspended several international news organisations, some of them for an indefinite period, said a statement from communications regulator the CSC. Among those named in the weekend order are French newspaper Le Monde, British publication The Guardian, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and French broadcaster TV5 Monde. They were suspended for reporting on a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that …

Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death…It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, you better be running First attributed to Dan Montano in The Economist, but popularised by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat. If, 20 years ago, you asked me whether …

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has sought the partnership of media organisations in the reportage and dissemination of information during emergencies in the country. During a workshop for media practitioners in Lagos on Saturday, the agency said by working with the media, it could ensure that timely and accurate information reached the public while creating awareness to enable people …

A former Special Adviser on Strategy to Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Saadu Salahu has enjoined journalists in the country to enlighten Nigerians on the gains of fuel subsidy removal. The season journalist said government’s decision to withdraw fuel subsidy was in the interest of the highest number of the citizens as against the few billionaires who were the sole beneficiaries of …

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described the word “reconciliation”, used in media reports of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi’s visit to his house in Abeokuta Ogun State at the weekend as “non-applicable”. He said the word was never raised, adding that its insertion in the reports was “most inappropriate” and a “diversionary invocation”. Soyinka noted that …

The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) has taken a bold step to kickstart the new Ombudsman mechanism with the announcement of a nine-man board of the National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), otherwise known as the National Ombudsman. According to a statement by the President of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), who is also NPO President, Malam Kabiru Yusuf, the …

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has disowned a statement on social media linking him to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The social media post also purportedly indicated that the elder statesman described the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in …