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,…
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…
As broadcast giants, Ambrose Somide, Tosin Dokpesi, Tony Akiotu, and seven others leave Daar Communications by October ending, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jr, has given the reason for their compulsory retirement. According to him, it is in line with statutory requirements because Daar is a publicly…
The Director General of Nationl Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Mr Charles Ebuebu, has announced that the NBC is embarking on a transformative journey in partnership with the NCC to achieve the benefits of DSO for Nigeria. He said this while addressing the members of the press at a joint press conference on Digital Switch Over (DSO),…
The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, owners of AIT, Raypower and Faaji FM, Raymond Dokpesi (Jnr), has offered explanations on why he had to ease 10 Directors, including Dr. Oluwatosin Dokpesi, the wife of his late father, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, out of the company. Dokpesi offered the explanation in an interview with Daily Sun on…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, non-profit organisation that works to promote press freedom worldwide, has said that at least 56 journalists were attacked during the recent nationwide End Bad Governance protest. Globally, attacks on the press often spike during moments of political tension. In Nigeria, they have continued to rise over the…
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…
Renowned Arise TV journalist, Oseni Rufai, has criticised the All Progressive Congress (APC) over their demand of $1 million before the APC governorship candidate in the 2024 Edo State election, Monday Okpebholo visits the station for an interview. Oseni, in a statement on X on Monday, lamented over the demand by the political party. “APC…
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,…
The Nigeria Police Force has released a journalist, Ayoola Babalola, who was arrested during the nationwide End Bad Governance in Nigeria protests in Abuja. The 25-year-old journalist was arrested on Saturday and detained at Wuye Police Station under the Federal Capital Territory Police Command. Babalola was released around 3 pm on Sunday after his arrest…
