Gbemiga Ogunleye News Today

A project of the Ondo State Government for massive production of oil palm through agro-allied companies has led to thousands of peasant farmers being thrown off their farmlands.,

Founded in March 1973, PUNCH, Nigeria’s foremost newspaper, clocked 50 on March 18, 2023, but its Board of Directors moved the 50th-anniversary celebration to this year because the anniversary month fell within an election month and year.

The over 400-page book was written by 38 ex-punchers who gave accounts of their memorable experiences while working at The PUNCH.

Owerri, the capital of Imo State, which prides itself as the “Heartland of the South East” of Nigeria, was taken up by the cream of the Nigerian media

Premium Times says it expects the Ombudsman Board to help strengthen its journalism and those of other media platforms in Nigeria.

Journalism plays such an important role in any democracy, providing people with accurate and reliable information.

The 2023 general election went true to type, exposing an ill-prepared Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) struggling to conduct hitch-free polls. Expectedly, the protests over the poorly-organised polls and the hotly-contested results produced therefrom have drowned some of the equally damaging outcomes of the electoral season. Some of the more worrying outcomes have to do with the appeal to clannish sentiments by some of the campaigns.

If I succeeded as the Editor of The PUNCH from Nov. 1996 - Dec. 2001, it is because I had Steve as one of my very reliable colleagues.

Instead of obeying the order of the court and appealing the judgment, ASUU has gone on appeal, while refusing to obey the court's order. 

After so many years of contextual reporting of how Nigeria’s fragile economic state has been affecting various sectors of the same economy, senior media managers rose from a unique workshop of their own at the weekend in Lagos...