MEDIA

The Federal Government has approved 60 percent debt forgiveness for all debtor broadcast stations in the country to cushion the effects of COVID-19 on the industry. The Minister ...

The ongoing process of switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting when completed, will yield $1.1 billion revenue and create two million jobs, the Minister of Information and Culture, ...

Armstrong Idachaba, acting director-general (DG) of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has disowned a call for position papers on the amendments to the 6th edition of the country’s ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has alerted the public over the operation of a fake Twitter handle, @yusufPhilipYila, which was purported to belong to its Director, Development ...

Google will pay partnered media publishers in three countries and offer some users free access to paywalled news sites, the tech giant said Thursday. The announcement comes after ...

Google said Monday it was adding fact-check labels to images as part of its efforts to stem visually misleading information. The new labels will be attached to the ...

Twitter Inc (added a ‘manipulated media’ label on a video posted on U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed on Thursday that showed a doctored news clip with a ...

Daniel ‘Dan’ Foster, a prominent Nigerian-American broadcaster, has passed on. A source told TheCable Lifestyle that the veteran radio host died around 1pm on Wednesday. “He died today ...

Worried about the rising incidences of rape across the country, a call has been made for proper education of the boy child towards value reorientation to respect the ...

The House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating non implementation of pay-as-you-go package by DSTV and other satellite providers in the country has assured Nigerians of justice. Chairman ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to regulate social media companies. This development is coming a day after the US president threatened to shut down social ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Nigeria’s broadcast regulator, has sanctioned three radio stations for violating the broadcast code in their activities during the coverage of COVID-19. Addressing a ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets “unsubstantiated” and accused him of making false claims. ...

Ofcom, UK broadcasting authority, has sanctioned Loveworld Television Network, a station owned by the church overseen by Chris Oyakhilome. Oyakhilome, founder and president of Loveworld Incorporated, had claimed that ...

Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications Plc, has asked the African Independent Television (AIT) to stop airing comments by him and his son on their experience with COVID-19 ...

Mo Abudu, Nigerian film producer, and Joke Silva, a veteran actress, have called out Sky News, a British media organisation, over an article alleged to be “derogatory” to ...

Multichoice Nigeria says it will, from June 1, adjust subscription rates to reflect the 50% increase in value-added tax. The 2020 finance act, which was signed into law ...

In a bid to curtail the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Katsina State, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Island Survive Foundation (ISF), has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) ...

Hours before President Muhammadu Buhari delivered his address to the nation on Monday night, a version — full of errors — was already circulating on social media. Although ...

Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, has tested positive for coronavirus. He disclosed this in a short message to members of staff in Abuja, AIT reported on ...