A Profitable and Peaceful Year
December 2003
Quite a lot happened in the advertising industry in 2003. These events were positive as they were geared towards making the industry more vibrant to face new challenges. For the Association of Advertising Practitioners of Nigeria, (AAPN), there was a change of executive baton when a new council headed by Mr. Kola Ayanwale succeeded the Mrs Bola Thomas led council after an annual general meeting in Ijebu-Ode, April 24-26…..Read More
Keeping faith with excellence
November 2003
The 12th Presentation of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence lived up to its billing. It was exciting, engaging and educative. For the three and a half hours it lasted, it was a night of drama and colour. Right from inception, DAME holds as an article of faith that the media is a potent agent of development that must be nurtured on the path of responsibility……Read More
The DAME Touch
October 2003
It is impossible not to feel the presence of Mrs. Taiwo Ajai-Lycett in a room. warm, cerebral and engaging, she lights up a room with her presence and substance. This wednesday in September, the DAME judges were meeting at the DAME Secretariat to consider reports of some of the various sub committees……Read More
The Big Brother Fuss
September 2003
Put 12 young men and women who are total strangers from different countries, different cultures and different backgrounds in a customised house. Add 26 close-circuit cameras to monitor their every action except when in the loo. Add a male baritone voice issuing out instructions. Throw in 25 million viewers from across the African continent. What do you have? A television show called Big Brother Africa…….Read More
The President's Media Management
August 2003
By a rare coincidence, three important world leaders decided to hold press conferences on the same day, Wednesday July 30, 2003 in London, Washington and New York. Interestingly, these three press conferences by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President George Bush of the U.S.A and UN secretary general, Kofi Annan respectively, were simultaneously beamed live by BBC World, CNN and Sky News…..Read More
Abuja and Information Management
July 2003
A day after being sworn in for a second term in office, President Olusegun Obasanjo May 30 promised Nigerians to expect in him a brand new President. The President, at a thanksgiving service, said he had learnt useful lessons in his first term and was determined to do things more effectively…..Read More
The Rise and fall of Tempo
June 2003
Tempo, the weekly tabloid, which advertises itself as “the pulse of the nation” was born July 19, 1993 as a child of circumstances and it has suddenly died in May 8, 2003 following political circumstances beyond its control. Polished by Bookmate Limited, a subsidiary of Independent Communications Network Ltd, publishers of the weekly magazine, The News, and the evening newspaper, PM News Tempo literally stole into the market unannounced in the Herculean year of the Babangida dictatorship……Read More
The Press on Elections 2003
May 2003
The Nigerian general elections, which was eagerly anticipated by Nigerians in particular and the world in general, held in April. But did the Nigerian press live up to the expectations of the Nigerian public in the reportage of the pre- and post- election happenings? Was the press partisan or neutral in its political news reporting? …..Read More
Press Coverage of Presidential Candidates
April 2003
It is just days aways to the April 19 presidential election. Twenty out of the thirty political parties have put up candidates who are desperately jostling for a place in heart of the electorate. The war for the nation’s top job is being fought on many fronts, key amony which is the print media…..Read More
Newspaper of the Year: All that fuss
February 2003
One issue that generated considerable media controversy of recent is the award of the Newspaper of the Year prizebof the Nigerian Media Merit Award, NMMA, to Vanguard newspaper, December 13, 2002. The Punch, previous winner of the title, protested the announcement of Vanguard as winner, claiming it had prior information, two days to the event…..Read More