A WORD ABOUT TONY ONYIMA Started media practice in 1986 at The Guardian. Has diverse experience in news reporting, production, operations, supply chain management, marketing, media business strategy, public policy & administration Has 25 years cognate experience in media practice; 10 of which were in Executive Management positions. Retired in Dec. 2013 as the MD/Editor-in-chief...
Let me begin by thanking the Guild for this kind invitation to share my thoughts on the topic above. I am particularly touched by the theme of the workshop: Journalism and Digitalisation: The imperative of Good Corporate Governance. Permit me to thank specially, the executive members of our Guild for their investment in the...
I will like to commend the Standing Committee of the Guild for coming up with this workshop as the latest step in their continued quest to deepen journalism and business education. The theme is well conceived; it is topical and important to the good health of our dear profession, Journalism. Journalism as the business of...
PROTOCOLS I am extremely delighted to welcome all of you to this very important conference with the theme ” JOURNALISM AND DIGITALISATION: IMPERATIVE OF GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE” . I thank you Mr Governor, for fully supporting this conference. This conference is very important because it is about us, our noble profession and our survival. A...
Media stakeholders yesterday said that a media regulatory framework led and driven by media professionals represents the most effective guarantee of media freedom and the independence of the media, in line with with regional and international norms and standards. The stakeholders, comprising representatives of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria...
stevewordu46 e email.com; 08033407132 EXPERIENCES RELEVANT TO THIS CONFERENCE. IIED, UK & SAOS Land tenure and resource access in West Africa 1998-2000 FREDRICH EBERT FOUNDATION-Research on SALW in the Niger delta, 2005. OXFARM UK/IHRHL-Research on the effects of Extractive Activities on women in the Niger delta, 2008, SPDC, Port Harcourt-Social Impact Assessment of Integrated Oil...
edet@mediarightsagenda.org What is Accountability? The essence of accountability is that when a person or institution is given the responsibility to hold, use or dispose of resources that do not belong to them, such person or institution has a duty to account to the owner(s) of the resources on what they did with the resources &...
Okon.godwin@ust.edu.ng Preamble Good governance and democracy are complementary concepts in the lexicon of political economics. As a matter of fact the latter precipitates the former. While good governance is all about accountability and sensitivity, democracy is all about representative participation. Viewed from a continuum, the common denominator across these concepts becomes the people. No doubt...
PROTOCOLS Let me welcome all of you , with pleasure, to this Town Meeting with the theme ” Agenda Setting for Sustainable Development” This is the sixth and the last leg in the series with the first five held in Lagos , Kano Yola, Abuja and Enugu under the NGE/US Embassy capacity building programme for...
FACT SHEET On December 9-10, 2021, President Biden hosted the first of two Summits for Democracy, a global gathering of 100 government leaders, hundreds of members of civil society, and the business community, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing democracies in the 21st century. At the Summit, the U.S. Government announced that the time...
