SACKED BBC MAN CAN’T SLEEP

Sacked BBC presenter Jermaine Jenas has revealed he cannot sleep and is ‘like a zombie’ after admitting to sending ‘inappropriate texts’ to two co-workers. The former footballer was sacked from his presenting roles on The One Show and Match Of The Day after junior staffers raised concerns over his behaviour. And Jenas now fears for…

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ADEPETU’S MEDIA STRIDES
By Isaac Asabor

Tajuddeen Adepetu is a prominent Nigerian media tycoon, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of the media conglomerate Group8 (formerly known as Consolidated Media Associates (CMA)). The conglomerate comprises several free-to-air and direct-to-home television channels and radio stations, including Africa’s well-known music channels Urban TV and radio, SoundCity TV and radio, Televista, OnMax, Spice TV,…

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IPI CONDEMNS ARREST OF SOYINKA

The International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has condemned the arrest of Adejuwon Soyinka, the West African editor for The Conversation Africa. Soyinka was detained by officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday, shortly after arriving from the United Kingdom. In a statement signed by Ahmed…

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NBC, OTHERS SIGN PACT WITH MINISTRY

The Honorable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris Malagi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and National Orientation, Dr. Ngozi Onwudiwe and the Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Charles Ebuebu, with other heads of agencies and parastatals under the Ministry have signed Performance Bonds with a directive by the Minister for them to…

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THE REGULATORS (3)
DANLADI BAKO

Mallam Nasir Danladi Bako, better known in the broadcast environment as Danladi Bako, is an inventive character with an unbridled appetite to be different. At a teenage age, he had demonstrated palpably, in literal and conceptual terms that his life would be about the motion picture, the broadcast industry. It was at Nigerian Television Authority,…

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