A GRAND piano that featured on many of ABBA's biggest hits is going up for auction in London next month.
SOTHEBY'S is offering the instrument, owned by the Stockholm music studio where the 1970s Swedish super-group often recorded.
The auction house said the piano by Swedish designer Georg Bolin - played on hits including Waterloo, Dancing Queen and Money, Money, Money - was expected to sell for between STG600,000-STG800,000 ($A1.31 million-$A1.69 million) on September 29.
It's the first major piece of ABBA material to be auctioned, and comes with a certificate of authentication signed by band member Benny Andersson who described the piano as a "great source of inspiration".
Sotheby's specialist Philip Errington said predicting the price was tricky, because little ABBA memorabilia has ever come to market.
He said the piano might appeal "to an ABBA fan, or to somebody who wants to have an interesting conversa
He said the piano might appeal "to an ABBA fan, or to somebody who wants to have an interesting conversation piece. It is incredibly difficult to judge what it might make."
MUSIC: Janet Jackson announces "Comeback Album"
A GRAND piano that featured on many of ABBA's biggest hits is going up for auction in London next month.
SOTHEBY'S is offering the instrument, owned by the Stockholm music studio where the 1970s Swedish super-group often recorded.
The auction house said the piano by Swedish designer Georg Bolin - played on hits including Waterloo, Dancing Queen and Money, Money, Money - was expected to sell for between STG600,000-STG800,000 ($A1.31 million-$A1.69 million) on September 29. |
JANET Jackson has given fans the
news they have long waited for — she has promised a new album and world
tour for later this year.
The Rhythm Nation singer has dropped off the radar since her last album Discipline was released in 2008.It even prompted some fans to issue a missing person’s report to try and locate the singer.
But the 49-year-old has come out of hiding to reveal plans to release a new album this year.
“I promised you’d hear it from my lips and now you will. This year, new music, new world tour, a new movement. I’ve been listening. Let’s keep the conversation going,” she said in a new video.
Rumours had been growing that Jackson may be planning a comeback.
An uncredited photo suggested that Atlantic Records was set to release a new album from the singer in July, while online music app Spotify leaked details of a July 28 tour date.
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Yobe Power company slashes tariffs by 50%
Mr Hanawa Rufus, a senior official of Yola Electricity Distribution Company has announced that tarriffs have been cut by 50 %.
Rufus, who is the Taraba Area Head of the company made the announcement while speaking with newsmen in Jalingo.
He said that slashing of the bills implied that customers would be charged half of what they paid in January.
The area head said the cut in charges was prompted by low supply of electricity to customers.
Rufus said that the three-week blackout in February was due to low supply of power to the company.
The official said that Taraba State, needing about 110 megawatts monthly, only received between 30 to 40 megawatts. Speaking on prepaid meters, the area manager said that the company had distributed over 1,000 meters to customers since July 2014.
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University Of Ibadan Sets Up Foundation
The (UI) has formally established a research unit to be called the UI Research Foundation.
Thefoundation laying ceremony was held last at the Institute's Phase 11, Ajibode Extension of the university community to underscore the importance of research in today’s Nigeria.
Before turning the sod of the Foundation which has been allocated about two hectares of land, the Chairman, Board of UI-Research Foundation, Uduimo Itsueli, avowed that there was no way the country could be talking of sustainable development without adequate focus on research.
He noted that the claim by Nigeria of being one of the world’s biggest economies would remain a mere slogan if research is refused its place of pride in the nation’s activities.
He charge that research must be converted to what everybody can benefit from, tasking the university community to ensure that the gap between the gown and town is bridged through translational research. The chairman also called on all Nigerians to see the project as a national one and not that of the university alone because of the immense benefits the country stands to derive from it.
Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, who spoke on the occasion stressed that “no nation can develop without Research and Development.”
He said, “Though, we are starting in a small way, I’m convinced that we can build on it, we are blazing the trail which others will build on, it is a major landmark event and a testimony of what UI is capable of doing”.
He maintained that the importance of the initiative was to create a conducive atmosphere where researchers could sit to proffer solutions to tackle issues affecting the country. He said it was an effort to plant a seed in making the institution a beacon of excellence.
Adewole described the project as a dream come true, noting that the university had been dreaming it for many years and was thankful to God for its realization during his time which he however attributed to his being surrounded with nice people.
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Many Feared dEAD As Bomb Rocks Kano Mosque
Many people were feard dead with scores others injured when multiple bomb blast, Friday, rocked Kano central mosque, near the Emir Palace, during Jumaat prayer.
It was learnt that the explosion occurred while people were listening to the Friday sermon from the chief imam of Kano.
The number of casualties cannot be ascertained yet. However, witnesses say the mosque has been deserted as the Police have cordoned off the area.
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Polio Level Down To Lowest Ebbs In Nigeria --FG
The Nigerian government has in Abuja announced that there
were only six cases of the wild polio virus disease have been recorded in
Nigeria this year, and is optimistic that impressive gains made from the
onslaught against the scourge would lead to its eventual eradication, just like
was done to Ebola virus disease.
Vice President Namadi Sambo disclosed this at a meeting of
the Presidential Task Force on Polio Eradication, which held at the State
House, Abuja.
Supervising Minister of State for Health, Khaliru Alhassan,
had earlier informed the meeting that, “wild polio virus is now confined to
only five local government areas compared to the more generalised situation of
the past.
“Today, we have six cases of wild polio virus in Nigeria. In the
last one year, 96 per cent of the 774 local government areas have been polio
free, while 35 per cent out of 37 or 95 per cent states have been without polio
in the last one year.”
Based on these facts, the government assured Nigerians that
“I efforts would be continued to push for total eradication via political
support, ensure sustained funding of the programme, procurement of the polio
vaccines and support the introduction of other new vaccines and work with the
traditional, religious leaders, development partners and other community based
organisations, to ensure that no polio case is recorded in Nigeria.”
He expressed delight that in the last two years, no new case
of the virus has been recorded and 88 per cent has been achieved in 2014
compared to 27 local governments in 2013, noting that the country has greatly
improved this year as compared to other parts of the world where polio is the
problem.
Hotel In Nigeria Shut Down For Serving Human Flesh
A NIGERIAN restaurant has been shut down after it was found to be serving human flesh.According to Agency reports,
the hotel in Anambra, Nigeria came under scrutiny after
locals told police there were rumours it was cooking human meat for its
customers.When police raided the restaurant they discovered human
heads that were still bleeding, with the blood draining into plastic
bags.
A priest who ate at the restaurant was alarmed when
presented with a bill of 700 Naira, or roughly $4.40 (Tens of millions
of people in Nigeria subsist on less than $1 a day).“The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill scale that high,” he said. “I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive.”
Not only was the restaurant caught with human flesh, police also found a number of automatic weapons, grenades, and cell phones.
Ten people were arrested in conjunction with the crimes.
One resident said, “Every time I went to the market, I observed strange activities going on in the hotel.
“People who were never cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities.
“I am not surprised at the shocking revelation.”
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Man Jailed 60 Years For Recklessly Infecting Sexual Partners With HIV
A MAN who prosecutors accused of “recklessly infecting” two male sex partners with HIV in Missouri has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, in a judgment that has outraged AIDS activists.
Twenty-three-year-old Michael L Johnson faced felony HIV exposure charges and was also accused of knowingly exposing four others to the virus that causes AIDS over nearly 10 months after being diagnosed as HIV positive in January 2013.
He pleaded not guilty, although two of his sexual partners testified in court that Johnson told them he did not have any sexually transmitted diseases at the time of the encounters.
Fusion reported that a judge will determine whether some of Johnson’s sentences can be served cumulatively, potentially cutting his total prison term down to 30 years.
HIV activists reacted with anger and dismay to the sentencing, saying the laws in Missouri and more than 30 other states criminalise a medical condition, and that they will not kerb the spread of the virus.
The encounters occurred in Johnson’s dorm room and other campus housing at Lindenwood University, a private school in the St Louis suburb of St Charles.
The New York Daily News reported that Johnson, who was a champion wrestler on the college team, used the name ‘Tiger Mandingo’ in his online dating profile and had filmed himself having unsafe sex with his partners. Missouri police found 32 video clips on his laptop showing him having unprotected sex with his partners, the site reported.
“He didn’t just fail to disclose. When he was specifically asked if he was clean ... he lied,” prosecutor Philip Groenweghe told jurors during the trial.
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Egyptian: Court Sentences Ex- President Morsi To Death
AN Egyptian court has sentenced
deposed president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to
death over jailbreaks during a 2011 uprising.
Morsi was in the caged dock when the judge read out his verdict on Saturday.Many of those sentenced were tried in absentia, including prominent Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi who resides in Qatar.
Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced Morsi and 12 other defendants to 20 years in jail for involvement in the arrests and torture of protesters during his rule.
But the court acquitted Egypt’s first freely elected president of murder charges that could have seen him sentenced to death over the killings of a journalist and two protesters during clashes outside a presidential palace in 2012.
The first ever democratically elected leader of Egypt, Morsi served from June 2012 to July 2013 but his affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood proved controversial throughout his time in power.
He was deposed by the army following mass protests.
Earlier in April a court sentned 14 senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death, including leader Mohammed Badie.
The Brotherhood has repeatedly dismissed the charges as politically motivated.
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Liberia Now Ebola-Free, Says WHO
Monrovia: Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday after 42 days without a new case of the virus, which killed more than 4700 people during a year-long epidemic.
However, celebrations were muted by thoughts for the dead and medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) urged vigilance until the worst outbreak of the disease ever recorded was also extinguished in neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone.
A total of 11,005 people have died from Ebola in the three West African neighbours since the outbreak began in December 2013, according to the WHO.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who toured Ebola treatment units in the capital Monrovia, said that, while Liberia could take pride in winning the battle against the disease, work was not finished.
At times when you are at your worst, it is when you become your best. That was what happened to us," she said during a speech at the country's incident management centre. "The task is not yet over ... The challenge is that we stay at zero."
Monday has been decreed by the government as a day of thanksgiving. The country's Christians have been asked to pray for the dead on Sunday, with Muslims to do the same on Friday.
Liberia was recording hundreds of new cases a week at the peak of the outbreak between August and October, causing international alarm.
The White House welcomed the news as a milestone for Liberians but cautioned there was more work to be done in Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Reuters
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Chinese Workers In Zimbabwe Are Eating Endangered Tortoises, Pythons, Leopards
China is investing significantly in mining, agriculture and construction, and its companies bring along thousands of workers.
Where there are Chinese in Africa, illegal trade in rare animals inevitably increases, according to experts. In Kenya, elephant poaching rose sharply along roads built by Chinese construction crews, and markets in Ethiopia cater to the Chinese demand for ivory chopsticks and other illicit souvenirs.
One recent case in Zimbabwe involved the gruesome discovery of meat and skeletal remains of 40 tortoises, during a raid on Chinese workers’ homes in Masvingo province. The endangered Bell’s Hinged tortoises had been dropped into boiling water while still alive in order to separate the meat from the shell, police and animal welfare officials said.
Authorities also found 13 live Bell’s Hinged tortoises — which are protected under international laws governing trade of endangered species — kept in steel drums without water or food.
Four Chinese workers were fined $300 each and deported over the killing of endangered tortoises “for personal consumption.” In some parts of China, tortoises are used to make a very expensive soup.
“Our wildlife remains a legacy for future generations of Zimbabweans and we should jealously guard their future wellbeing,” the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ZNSPCA) said at the time.
LIFE: Chhattisgarh Girl Refuses To Marry Drunk Groom
In a second case of its kind, a 19-year-old girl, Meymin, from Pulgaon Village, Durg district of Chhattisgarh, refused to marry her groom who turned up drunk for their wedding ceremony on April 28.
Call it a coincidence, though this incident has come to light on Friday, close on the heals of similar rebuke to an inebriated groom by a Kanpur based young girl, Neha, both incidents happened on the same night, Tuesday. While Kanpur and Durg are hundreds of miles apart and there could be a sharp contrast between the educational and family backgrounds of the two girls, the sheer grit shown by them has stark similarities.
According to reports reaching here, the drunk groom, Chetan Yadav, started misbehaving with Meymin's father, Nandu Yadav, minutes before the customary ceremony of exchanging garlands (jaimala). Unable to stand her father's humiliation, Meymin, who was dressed in her bridal attire, protested at the groom's behaviour and publicly declared that she would not marry the drunken man.
Though her decision shocked many who were present there, her family was supportive of her and decided to call off the wedding. Nandu Yadav said he was proud of his daughter's decision and expressed surprise at the groom and his family for turning up drunk at the wedding ceremony.
"It was not only the groom but his relatives too were sozzled," said Nandu while thanking go that the reality of the groom's family was exposed before Meymin tied the knot.
Unlike the Kanpur incident where the groom's family futilely tried to lodge a complaint against the girl's family, Chetan Yadav's, who hailed from Khurati village of Rajnandgaon district, preferred to walk away after making some noises.
Many locals in Pulgaon villages have hailed the courage shown by the girl.
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Breaking News: Nigeria evacuating rescued girls, women
NIGERIA'S military is moving 200 girls and 93 women from a northeastern forest where they were rescued from Boko Haram extremists.ARMY spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said on Wednesday many were traumatised.
The military is flying in medical and intelligence teams to examine them, he said. Their evacuation from the Sambisa Forest - which the military says is the last stronghold of the Islamic extremists - began on Tuesday but Colonel Usman would not say where the rescued females were being taken. On Tuesday night, he had indicated that none of the 219 who were still missing more than a year after being snatched from a boarding school in Chibok, a town in northeast Nigeria, were among the rescued females. On Wednesday, he said he was not categorically saying none of the Chibok girls were among the rescued females and that they still needed to be questioned to determine their identities. "Most of them are traumatised and you have got to put them in a psychological frame of mind to extract information from them," Usman said. The mass kidnapping from Chibok brought Boko Haram to the attention of the world and the failure to rescue them aroused condemnation of Nigeria's government and military.
President Jonathan Sacks IGP, names Arase
President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba.
He has also appointed DIG, Solomon Arase, as Acting IGP with immediate effect.
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Elections: Disquiet over unpaid allowances of corps members
The non-payment
of training and logistic allowances to ad hoc staff of National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) after the general elections in across the country is causing crisis.
For instance over 5,000 corps two weeks ago at the
Oshimili South Local Government Secretariat zonal NYSC office trooped to the
street to protest the non-payment of their allowances.
Spokesperson for the corps members who does not want her
name in print revealed that the process was fraudulent because the Batch A
corps members that participated in the training have passed out and were not
paid.
However, the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) Delta State had said the commission has deposited their allowances with
the Directorate of NYSC, stating that the commission does not pay the corps
members directly.
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Putin Says Russia Was Ready For Nuclear War
Moscow was ready
to put its nuclear forces on alert to ensure Russia's annexation of Crimea from
Ukraine last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a pre-recorded
documentary aired on Sunday.
Putin also said that Russia had saved the life of Ukraine's former pro-Moscow
president, Viktor Yanukovich, who he said had been in danger after
'revolutionaries' seized power following weeks of violent street protests in
Kiev last year.
"For us it became clear and we received information that there were plans
not only for his capture, but, preferably for those who carried out the coup,
but also for his physical elimination. As one famous historical figure said:
'No person, no problem'," Putin said.
Protests over Yanukovich's decision to back away from a trade agreement with
the European Union in favour of closer ties with Moscow forced him from power
in February last year. Yanukovich's overthrow ultimately prompted Russia to
seize and annex the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
"Of course it wasn't immediately understandable (what the reaction would be
to Crimea's annexation). Therefore, in the first stages, I had to orient our
armed forces. Not just orient, but give direct orders," he said.
When asked if he had been ready to put Russia's nuclear forces on alert, he
said: "We were ready to do it."
Putin also said that Russia had saved the life of Ukraine's former pro-Moscow president, Viktor Yanukovich, who he said had been in danger after 'revolutionaries' seized power following weeks of violent street protests in Kiev last year.
"For us it became clear and we received information that there were plans not only for his capture, but, preferably for those who carried out the coup, but also for his physical elimination. As one famous historical figure said: 'No person, no problem'," Putin said.
Protests over Yanukovich's decision to back away from a trade agreement with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Moscow forced him from power in February last year. Yanukovich's overthrow ultimately prompted Russia to seize and annex the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
"Of course it wasn't immediately understandable (what the reaction would be to Crimea's annexation). Therefore, in the first stages, I had to orient our armed forces. Not just orient, but give direct orders," he said.
When asked if he had been ready to put Russia's nuclear forces on alert, he said: "We were ready to do it."
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Many Feared Dead As Bomb Rocks Kano Mosque
Many people were feard dead with scores others injured when multiple bomb blast, Friday, rocked Kano central mosque, near the Emir Palace, during Jumaat prayer.It was learnt that the explosion occurred while people were listening to the Friday sermon from the chief imam of Kano.
The number of casualties cannot be ascertained yet. However, witnesses say the mosque has been deserted as the Police have cordoned off the area.
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Polio Level Down To Lowest Ebbs In Nigeria --FG
The Nigerian government has in Abuja announced that there
were only six cases of the wild polio virus disease have been recorded in
Nigeria this year, and is optimistic that impressive gains made from the
onslaught against the scourge would lead to its eventual eradication, just like
was done to Ebola virus disease.
Vice President Namadi Sambo disclosed this at a meeting of
the Presidential Task Force on Polio Eradication, which held at the State
House, Abuja.
Supervising Minister of State for Health, Khaliru Alhassan,
had earlier informed the meeting that, “wild polio virus is now confined to
only five local government areas compared to the more generalised situation of
the past.
“Today, we have six cases of wild polio virus in Nigeria. In the
last one year, 96 per cent of the 774 local government areas have been polio
free, while 35 per cent out of 37 or 95 per cent states have been without polio
in the last one year.”
Based on these facts, the government assured Nigerians that
“I efforts would be continued to push for total eradication via political
support, ensure sustained funding of the programme, procurement of the polio
vaccines and support the introduction of other new vaccines and work with the
traditional, religious leaders, development partners and other community based
organisations, to ensure that no polio case is recorded in Nigeria.”
He expressed delight that in the last two years, no new case
of the virus has been recorded and 88 per cent has been achieved in 2014
compared to 27 local governments in 2013, noting that the country has greatly
improved this year as compared to other parts of the world where polio is the
problem.
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By Eddie
Akalonu,
AN Assignment
for Dr. Ikechukwu obiaya
Name has been defined as a noun word by which a person,
place or thing is known as identity and that which distinguishes from others.
In our traditional African setting names play very important roles. Names take
various forms but it must stick as what the bearer or giver intends it is.
Parents give names for varied reasons. These range from
cultural background and affinity, circumstances of birth. So there are names
like Godswill, ThankGod Blessing, Ihuoma Chioma and then ownership as Nkem. That is perhaps
the reason we had Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Ports Authority etc. Therefore
if the founding Fathers said it is Nigeria this or that, it must retain that
pronunciation and meaning. There is a
whole lot of difference if someone thus calls out Nigerian Airways. Today the law has granted an individual the
right to run an Air Nigeria which
has that broad meaning as that owned by Nigeria as a country and its people. In this
case not ours but his. There is the
Ethiopian Airlines or ‘Ethiopian’ for short, the world should take it in same
light as Nigeria Airways. Similarly, there are name such as the South African
Airways, Qatar Airways that doubles as Etihad Airlines all carry the identity
of Qatar as a country. These days however, the same country has gone further to
assume a corporate identity known as Qatar Foundation. This is very visible in
sports sponsorship and it is respected for it. Pan African University we are
told was changed to Pan Atlantic University because a larger body thought it is
the copyright owner of any name African.
Names also come by Abbreviation. National Population
Commission or NPC is the reason the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria is not
Nigeria Paralympic going by worldwide standard
However, mispronunciation can give a name different meaning.
African Cup of Nations has been called Africa Cup of Nations and All Africa
Games some to some has become All African Games.
A name therefore ought to be what the owner intends it is. Any
deviation therefore cannot hold.
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Why I like Watching Films
Film or films can be seen as a subset of media industry providing a form
of entertainment, information and education composed of a sequence of images
and shown in a cinema and, more recently, videos. By this, it can be deduced
that films are a constituent of the media providing good mediated content that
appeals to the senses, especially sight and sound. Still, films can also be in
form of still images (camera)or slides (TV and Video), which in this case can
only appeal to the sense of sight, and perform the same media functions of educating,
entertaining or informing. Films, in whatever form they appear, generally are
of the performing arts, and these can be classified into fiction and non-
fiction or both (faction), spanning action, drama, musicals, documentaries,
comedies, tragedies prose, poetry and, of course, historical films.
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Why I like Watching Films
Films providing mediated content that interest me most are the action
films. These provide me with varied entertainment and leisure at home by
appealing to my imagination because I am fully immersed in the artistic work of
the writer from the beginning until they reach a climax. Experts have posited
that these days the media has made the world limitless or a convergent point of
ideas. Therefore, I like watching documentary films because these keep me
informed, especially about the cultures and traditions of the diverse peoples
of our land, Nigeria, and indeed those of other lands.
And I like watching films in the categories of drama, novellas, comedies
and, again, documentaries that provide me with a deep insight into the flora
and fauna of the environment of Nigeria, because these also educate me about
the attitudes, behavior of peoples in other societies and about the survival
instincts and strategies in the animal world.
Films, to me therefore, are a necessity of life
because these are media windows that adequately play important roles in my
life.---------------------------------------------------Assignment for Dr. Ikechukwu Abiaya
I found a piece of information about the Daily Times
An: ASSIGNMENT
My three days of taking a certificate course in the School
of Media and Communication, Pan Atlantic University, is already yielding
fruit, as I have been handed an information that I had sincerely
longed for concerning the of Daily Times
newspaper’s original owners. The facilitator at
S.M.C. who treated the topic, “The Past, Present and
Future of News Reporting in Nigeria,” glided over the history of newspapers
in the world and Nigeria and during the discourse, told us that the Daily Times
group had been founded by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry in
1925/26. He said the founders had set up the paper as a business concern, which
means it contrasted with the early newspapers set up by the nationalists in
Nigeria and that had focused on politics of advocacy for Independence. For me,
it was heart rending because writers of books on “history of the newspaper industry in Nigeria” and teachers in the
journalism schools I attended, focused largely on when the paper was founded
-1925/1926, but not about who was behind the paper. I was still in school when
government took control of the paper, and I had little knowledge of these facts.
Concerning the fight over the paper at various times, what I was able to get
was the little that the gladiators let out in the news media.
This revelation about
its foundations increased
my curiosity because I wanted to fill in a void inside me about the paper. So, I sought to know from the SMC lecturer why
government had intervened in the affairs of the paper years back when it had
assumed full control there, because, then, there was little I knew may be because, those
involved in the battle for the soul of Daily Times, the government and the
media in general had said only the part they wanted the public to know and
shielded the real facts on ground . Again, he explained
further to the class that government at that time had felt highly uncomfortable
with the growing influence of the paper and had only been glad to take over in its
time of serious crises. Another notable thing disclosed was that it was in-fact
top journalists at the helm of affairs in the paper that had publicly called
for a government intervention.
Although I have always
pondered on the dearth of literature on the
ownership of Daily Times, what I finally reasoned from this disclosure is that
writers and teachers of about the history of the newspaper industry have
deliberately let this aspect remain a secret.
Finally, with what I
thought was a mystery resolved for me, I would say I do wholly believe in the
saying that “learning continues everyday even as we grow old.”===================================
How not to annoy a journalist
- Date June 1, 2013
By Kate Jones
If the pen is mightier than the sword, it's a good idea to keep journalists onside.Knowing how to keep journalists happy is a very useful skill for any business owner. But Alex Wake, a lecturer in the RMIT school of media and communication, says many small businesses simply don't know how to handle the media.They make common mistakes born of ignorance or anxiety that often earn the ire of journalists, she says.
Wake lists 10 things that annoy journos and editors. Avoid them and you may have a successful working relationship with someone in the newsroom.
- Repeatedly asking when a story will be published
- Do not ring a journalist constantly asking for publication
dates and details. One Fairfax editor says this is her top
annoyance.
To stop yourself from badgering journalists, set up a Google Alert so you are immediately informed when your article has been published.
2. Confusing editorial with advertising
Requesting information to be published that makes a business look good is a huge no-no. This often happens because businesses don't understand how the media works and they see a phone call from a journalist as an opportunity for a free plug.
3. Asking to see copy before it's published
An ethical journalist will never show you an article before it's published. Doing so would create pressure on the journalist to change the story to flatter someone, hide unpleasant truths or help push someone's agenda.
4. No news sense
You may think you know news, but don't try telling that to a journalist. Journalists have a sharp news sense and understand what their readers, listeners or viewers want to know about. News is topical and often involves conflicting opinions and values. Journalists understand this and don't appreciate being told how to do their job.
5. Time wasting
When a journalist approaches a business for a comment, some people dilly-dally about getting back to them with an answer. Their organisation doesn't have any processes in place for dealing with the media and that's really frustrating for journalists, especially if the comment is not for a hard-hitting investigative piece.
Often journalists are seeking a balancing opinion for their articles and need quotes from “both sides of the fence”. For example, they may speak to a florist about what's on offer on Mother's Day and need to
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DEAF
ASSOCIATION CRAVES FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, FACILITIES
The
Deaf Association in Nigeria has demanded for equal opportunities in
all spheres of life including sports,employment and the provision of
facilities hitherto extended to the able bodied counterparts,
restating the point that there is ability in disability. This plea
was made in Lagos by the Chairman Ajeromi-Ifelodun Deaf Association,
Prince Olatunde Jelili Raimi during their second Ajeromi-Ifelodun
Local Government Deaf Awareness Programme.
These,
he said, include sporting facilities against the backdrop of
increasing involvement of the deaf in sports across the country.
In
his lecture which theme was titled; ‘Empowering the
Hearing-Impaired (Deaf) for Nation Building in the 21st
Century viz Economic Development at the Local Level’, Raimi said
“there was need for government at all levels to work in concert
with the Deaf Associations in order to empower deaf people so that
they will be useful and contributory members of the society.’’
‘’Disability
should not be equated with inability. We make bold to say that deaf
persons can do anything except hearing. If government at all levels
do not include deaf people in government, then there is no complete
government.’’
Raimi,
therefore called on the state governments to ensure strict
implementation of the Special People bill (Disability Bill) which was
passed by the Lagos state government at the local government level in
order to add advantage towards the promotion of economic development
of deaf people.
Speaking
earlier, former Vice Principal (Deaf Unit), State Grammar Secondary
School, Isolo, Surulere, Lagos, Elder Amos Akeju, said the concept of
equal opportunities for the deaf needs to be reinforced, stressing
that no deaf person should be denied of the right to personal needs
and wants.
He
charged the deaf to be up and doing, adding that they should not
allow their plight to weigh them down.
“In
order to successfully compete in the economy and other activities,
the deaf must strive to prepare themselves for the competitive
employment opportunities available”, he said.
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