The committee for the Ray Ekpu Award for Investigative Journalism has called for entries from journalism professionals in Akwa Ibom State with N1 million to be won. The committee said that the entries for the award, jointly sponsored by Inoyo Toro Foundation and Thompson and Grace Amos Foundation, will open on Monday, 1 November and run till Friday, 11 November …

Sylvanus Ukafia, a medical doctor and a pastor, has fun memories of his first encounter with Ray Ekpu. His father, the late Owen Ukafia, an accomplished journalist in his own right, worked at the once bubbling Nigerian Chronicle in Calabar, where Ekpu started his journalism career. The senior Ukafia kept feeding his son daily with juicy stories of excellent journalism exemplified …

Change is no longer an exception, but a grand rule for the reinvention of a society to expand the frontiers of democracy and development. This was the central message at a public lecture on Tuesday, organised by the Lagos State Government as part of the activities for the inauguration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat for …