Category: Media

Kunle ADELABU -Enjoins them to ensure proper dissemination of information at the grassroots Community Media Practitioners in Lagos State should always endeavour to ensure proper dissemination of information at the grassroots and uphold the tenets of journalism.   This was the positions of the state government functionaries, scholars and practitioners at the Lagos State Government sponsored 2-day workshop themed, ‘Strategic Communication: A Tool For Media Networking and Community Relations”, held at the Orientals Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos, between Thursday, December 27 and Friday, December 28, 2018.   The Commissioner for…

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Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan has stressed the need for a coordinated and integrated information management among two tiers of government in the State to widen the scope of information dissemination among the citizenry.   Bamigbetan, who disclosed this at a meeting held with Public Affairs Officers of Local Government and Local Council Development Areas in Lagos State, noted that coordinated information management would further help bring governance closer to the people.   The Commissioner charged the Local Government Public Affairs Officers to key into…

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Lagos State Government Friday unveiled the ‘New Face of Lagos in the cyberspace’ as part of efforts to deepen information dissemination through a friendly and interactive social media platform. Speaking at the unveiling of the project held at Digital Village, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan said the state government had, in the past 15 years, spearheaded progressive drive in the direction of e-governance – thereby bridging the gap between the government and the governed. In his words, “It started with the adoption of the Oracle system…

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– ‘Truth Never Dies’ campaign for launch today Analysts are seeking fresh probe into the deaths of local reporters in controversial circumstances. Their push, in this article by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Reporter PRUDENCE AROBANI, is fueled by the October 2 murder of The Washington Post columnist in Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will today launch a new campaign tagged: “Truth Never Dies”.   It is part of programmes to commemorate this years’ “International Day to end impunity…

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Facebook says 20 million fewer accounts were breached than originally thought in one of the worst security incidents at the giant social network – 30 million instead of 50 million – but attackers made off with sensitive personal information from nearly half of those users that could put them at serious risk, including phone number and email address, recent searches on Facebook, location history and the types of devices people used to access the service.   According to USA Today, hackers got their hands on data from 29 million accounts…

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Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world’s leading social network disclosed late last month.   The company had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens” that enable people to automatically log back onto the platform.   “We now know that fewer people were impacted than we originally thought,” Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen said in an online post.   The…

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Wale Jagun The Chief Executive Officer of Ikorodu-Oga Online Radio, Omoba Abraham Peju-Akinyemi and his staff members resumed at their Ipakodo office on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, after Sallah break to a great shock and disbelief as they discovered that robbers had broken into the office and carted away equipments and other valuable items.   THE IMPACT gathered that the invaders entered the office, which is situates on NBC Road, Ebute, Ikorodu, Lagos State., after removing part of the wooden door. Items carted away were laptops, speakers, studio microphones, television…

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