LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of Nigeria Union Of Journalists (NUJ) Lagos Chapel, Dr Quasim Akinreti is the Guest Speaker at inauguration of Maritime Journalists Association Of Nigeria (MAJAN) Power Pen Media Chapel. The Association in a statement made available to our correspondent signed by MAJAN Publicity Secretary McAnthony Onuoha said the Group is inviting everybody…
LAGOS AMY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for an end to exploitation of journalists through casualisation of their employment by some media organisations. ”This type of employment is promoting compromises in the journalism profession for financial gratifications,” Mr Paul Jatau, the Chairman of NUJ, Plateau Council, told the News Agency of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Deliberate attempt by INEC, Bayelsa state to disenfranchise about two hundred and fifty journalists from covering the Saturday general election in the state has been resisted by media practitioners in the state. As a result, practicing journalists in Bayelsa State are set to boycott the coverage and monitoring of Saturday’s Presidential and…
LAGOS JANUARY 9H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists has completed work on two books to mark the first year anniversary of the installation of Iba Gani Ige Abiodun Adams as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland. The Chairman of the union, Dr. Qasim Akinreti, who disclosed this, said the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-: Rector of Times Journalism Institute (TJI) Mr Ndubuisi Ugbede will on Saturday, September 15, lead old students of the renowned journalism school to a reunion session in Lagos. Confirming this, the interim National Coordinator, Times Journalism Institute (TJI) Alumni Association, Mr. Remmy Nweke, said Ugbede aside confirming attendance, also endorsed the…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Abdulwaheed Odusile, has petitioned the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on the incessant attacks on Nigerian journalists by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. Odusile, who wrote the petition on behalf of Nigerian journalists, used the arrest and detention of a Premium Times…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-he Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called for the immediate release of Premium Times reporter, Samuel Ogundipe. Ogundipe was arrested on Tuesday by the police over a story he wrote based on the letter written by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the Director…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the increasing spate of killings across the country, Senator President Bukola Saraki and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State want immediate removal of security chiefs to allow for fresh and innovative ideas on how to protect the nation. Tambuwal spoke while declaring open the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the…