14 Nov 2024
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Press Statement

November 12, 2024   Press Statement Editors Urge Government to Ease Impact of Fuel Subsidy Removal/Exchange Rate Volatility #Call for targeted relief measures to save media, nation’s economy #Reaffirm commitment to democracy, press freedom Arising from the three-day All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)...

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14 Nov 2024
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AI-Generated Storytelling: Opportunities and Challenges (with Nigeria in mind)

      AI-Generated Storytelling: Opportunities and Challenges (with Nigeria in mind) By Azu Ishiekwene, a paper delivered at the All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) on September 8, 2024, at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, themed: Economic Growth and Development Strategies in a Resource-Rich Country     One year ago, on November 15, 2023, the Guild of...

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08 Nov 2024
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Good morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be here with all of you today as we gather for this year’s Editors Annual Conference. Today, our focus is on two interlinked themes: the growth of our country’s economy and the sustainability of our media industry. As editors, we are not only stewards of information and truth...

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08 Nov 2024
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Address by His Excellency Senator Douye Diri

Address by His Excellency Senator Douye Diri, at the Opening Ceremony of the All-Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) of the Nigeria Guild of Editors on Thursday, 7 November, 2024 at the DSP Alamieyeseigha Banquet Hall, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.   Distinguished editors, esteemed journalists, and dear friends.   It is with great pleasure that our serene capital,...

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01 Oct 2024
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Family, friends, editors honour Remi Oyo at 10th year remembrance service

Media professionals, Catholic faithful, friends and family members of former presidential spokesperson, Mrs Oluremi Oyo, on Tuesday in Lagos, honoured her with a thanksgiving service to mark 10 years of her death. Oyo, also a President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), died on...

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22 Nov 2023
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Economic Recovery: Editors Confab Urges FG To Reduce Deafening Anxiety Among Nigerians

· Aligns with government’s economic policies · Says media sustainability crucial to democracy, economic growth Arising from its four-day annual conference in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, weekend, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) aligned with measures so far adopted by the Federal Government to revive the economy; but said the path to total...

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17 Nov 2023
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POST-2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ASSESSING THE ROLES PLAYED BY THE MEDIA, INEC, SECURITY AGENCIES AND OTHERS

Protocols I am grateful to the leadership of ANEC, organizers of this conference, for inviting me to give this presentation at this very important event being held at this very important time in our national history. Conferences like this are important because they help shape the national conversation and help Nigerians distill fact from fiction,...

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17 Nov 2023
Richard Akinnola
MEDIA LAW, ETHICS AND THE IMPERATIVE FOR PROFESSIONALISM

Historical context 1. NIGERIA’S MILITARY GOVERNMENTS AND ANTI-PRESS LAWSNigeria’s press laws in the past 63 years have undergone series of metamorphosis. Apart from the ones promulgated by the colonial governments and under the short-lived civilian government between 1960 and 1966, quite a number of such laws were ingrained in our statute books under successive military...

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15 Nov 2023
Dr-Muda-Yusuf
PAPER PRESENTED BY DR MUDA YUSUF,

PROTOCOLS I would like to begin by appreciating the Nigeria guild of editors for inviting me as a guest speaker at this conference.  It is a great honour which I immensely cherish. My interaction with the media community had always been with the reporters and correspondents on the business and economic desks.  It is therefore...

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15 Nov 2023
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Nigerian Media Sustainability and Existential Threat by Big Tech…Azubuike Ishiekwene

Protocol “Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death…It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, you better be running” Quote first attributed to Dan Montano in The Economist, but was popularised by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat....

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