What is the story of Nigeria's failure as a nation? It is the story of the failure of journalism which refused to watch over the power players but rather watch over the pockets of the journalists.

By Tunde Akande

My friend and workmate, Professor Jimi Kayode, now of Lagos State University, teaching mass communication but formerly director of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism in Lagos where we worked together told me a story about the decadence that has become of journalism and journalists in Nigeria. He was somewhere on the Lekki Ajah axis in Lagos standing at a bus stop waiting for public transport, usually bone shakers; he had no car. After waiting for some time under the intense heat he got tired but then a state-of-the-art car parked at the bus stop and the driver beckoned to him.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Nigeria's capital, Abuja, is expected to literarily come alive on Thursday, December 1, 2022, as former President Goodluck Jonathan and other top dignitaries converge on the city for the public presentation of 'The Letterman', a book on the 'secret' letters of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Introduction:

The roundtable on deepening media professionalism through co-regulation was convened by the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) in conjunction with the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), and the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP).

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