By Joke Kujenya SHOCKWAVES RIPPLED through Nigeria’s media and cultural circles following the passing of Evelyn Osagie, Assistant Editor (Arts) of The Nation Newspaper, who died in the early hours of Sunday, August 17, 2025, at the Catholic Ancillia Hospital in Fagba, Lagos. She was 50. Colleagues first learnt of her death through messages on ...
By Joke Kujenya MULTIPLE AWARD-winning Kenya’s investigative journalist Caroline Atieno Nyanga has made a global appeal for assistance after recounting how her media career, health, and fortune collapsed following years of dangerous reporting assignments and alleged encounters with forces of darkness. Nyanga, a respected figure in Kenyan medi...
By JKNewsMedia MAJOR CHANGES have been announced at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) as President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of veteran media executive Rotimi Richard Pedro as the new Director-General of the state broadcaster. The move, which brings in a new leadership team at the NTA, is seen as one of the most significant [...
By Joke Kujenya SEVEN DAYS after the death of the pioneer Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Doyinsola Hamidat Abiola, the Concord Press family is still in mourning. They declared in a short release on their WhatsApp platform, “The Great Concord Family,” that from Sunday morning until Tuesday night, former staff members of...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PROFOUND SADNESS has been expressed by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) over the death of Dr Doyin Abiola, former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the defunct Concord Newspapers, at the age of 82. In a statement signed by President Eze Anaba and General Secretary Onuoha Ukeh, the NGE...
By Joke Kujenya LEGACY OF pioneering journalism, newsroom innovation and unmatched leadership has been noted to define the transition of Dr Doyin Abiola, former Managing Director of Concord Press of Nigeria, whose death has marked the end of a remarkable era in Nigerian media. Described as a woman who inhaled and exhaled journalism, Dr Abiola...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter DECADES OF impactful investigative journalism earned George Otumu a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree during a landmark ceremony held by Crown University, United States of America (USA), with top figures from media, government, and entertainment in attendance. The award presentation, held with grandeur, ...
Illness in Nigeria is no longer driven solely by poverty or lack of access to healthcare. Increasingly, it stems from what people eat. Processed foods high in salt, sugar, and saturated fats, poorly labelled and aggressively marketed, are fuelling a sharp rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascu...
Dapo Olorunyomi’s lecture at Ajayi Crowther University on Nigerian journalism MR. VICE Chancellor, sir, [and, by the way, a fellow Great Ife-Ife, principal officers, staff and students at this august university, I should begin with a statement of gratitude for your kind invitation. In doing this, please also allow me to offer a very affectiona...
By JKNewsMedia GROWING THREATS to journalism through digital surveillance and censorship will take centre stage as Angela Quintal, Africa programme director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), delivers the keynote at the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture. The event, themed ‘Surveillance, Safety and the Silencing of Truth’, bri...
