FCT Directorate of Women’s Affairs: Office of First Lady and Minister of FCT in talks over collaboration
As Minister of FCT, Wikipedia, seeks partnership with the First Lady on the estqblishment of Directorate foe women Affairs in the FCT.
As Minister of FCT, Wikipedia, seeks partnership with the First Lady on the estqblishment of Directorate foe women Affairs in the FCT.
How to know you’re the source of your own career stagnation.
Multi-award winning broadcaster, investigative journalist, executive, and critically reviewed author of Distortion, Ejiro Umukoro tasks Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) to raise the ethical bar and rules of engagement for its members.
When people pay huge sums of money to get job offers from within the ministries or commissions enables the engagement of Persons who are not right for the job or position given.
Congratulates Onyejeocha, Tunji-Ojo, Sununu for their ministerial appointments.
In November 2023, the African Women in Media will be hosting its 2023 Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The Ignite Speaker for that Conference, Ejiro Umukoro, will be presenting a paper titled: Challenging the Narratives Around Gender-Based Storytelling in the light of her Pulitzer Centre Recognised Investigative Journalism series where she used statistics, data visualisation and insights to retell gender focused stories like never before done in any Nigeria News publication prior to Covid-19 pandemic. She reports on a pandemic within a pandemic, revealing stories, datasets and more that inspired a call to action both by the citizens as well as the legislative passage of the VAPP Bill into an Act (Violence Against Person Prohibition Act) by the Delta State Government.
Her Ignite Keynote Talk on how to retell gender stories intends to redefine how the media needs to review and ethically tell gender-based stories as they are without detracting from the real value of stories to create desired impact.
The Food Crisis across the globe is real. With hike on fossil fuel, palliative are no longer the solution. The root of the food crisis is admitting the role that politics and bad governance continues to play in deliberately not bridging the gap between the rich and the poor.
On NASS this Week, Inauguration of the 10th Assembly
With her current role as a Senior Correspondent reporting the Nigeria Senate at National Assembly for the Punch Newspaper, Tope Omogbolagun spares no punches. Pun intended. Her strong belief that a dead media breeds a ‘deader’ society rings true in a culture where lawlessness and disregard for the rule of law is no longer the pastime of military dictatorships, but now a fixture of a society supposedly democratic. In this Special Exclusive Nigerian Women in Media Project Series by LightRay Media, she provides clear cut solutions on media management, becoming a poster girl for young female journalists, and much more. Shall we begin?
Campus Journos in Nigeria are seizing the day. Many are no longer waiting to get a meager paid salary with legacy media organisations in the country as they set their sights on more audacious international fellowships, grants, and opportunities to hone their skills in raising the bar for themselves in the practice of media, communications and journalism.
One of such seasoned campus journo is Adesola Ikulajolu who recently was announced as the only Nigerian selected for the prestigious DART Centre Fellowship for the 2023 Early Childhood Global Reporting, a project by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New Yourk United States.
In this Special Edition of Nigerian Men in Media Project #NMiMP Series by LightRay Media, Adesola speaks from a place of burning hunger, his embers fueled with an unquenchable goal to outdo himself while also serving as a stepping stone to others. To know him is to immerse yourself in his journey into the media space in Nigeria.