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Media Crisis:Former GM Vision FM Detained Over 10 Million Naira Scam

A former General Manager of vision FM Muhammad Iskeel has been detained over alleged 10 million Naira scam when he serves as general manager Vision FM Katsina. It was exclusively gathered by the NIGERIAN TRACKER that the general manager was detained after the management of the vision media services tried to settle the matter amicably but the former General Manager of the radio station in Katsina refuses to comply. When NIGERIAN TRACKER correspondent sought to know the reasons behind detaining the former General Manager of the vision FM in Katsina, the Chief operating officer of the stations in Abuja Malam Shuaibu Mungadi said the former GM Mr Iskeel has perpetrated acts inimical to the reputation of Vision Media services. He said Iskeel has changed their rate card from 750 thousand Naira quarterly advert rate for a sponsored program to about 1.8 Million Naira. Mungadi said the former General Manager in the year 2021 collected a quarterly programme from their client of about 10.6 millio...

Nigerian Journalists and the Struggle for Survival

By Fidelis David  Late American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, musician, philosopher, and founding father who served as the 3rd president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 once said, “where it’s late for me to decide whether to have a government without a newspaper or a newspaper without a government. I would not hesitate to prefer the latter”. Basically, Jeffeson is emphatically emphasizing the importance of journalism as a potent organ for sanity restoration between the excess of the ruler and the frivolity of the ruled, and as a potent instrument for social engineering and development. No doubt, the importance of proper information dissemination about events which guide the affairs of man cannot be over stressed. Therefore, in this generation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), no man would be excused for not having enough information to help understand his world. Most Nigerian Journalists are hard-working. They do their job with passion, panache and env...

Media Crisis:Mass Resignation Rocks Liberty Radio In Kano

liberty FM Kano launched on August 26, 2021 About seven management staff of liberty radio 10.33, an FM station based in Kano have resigned their positions. One of the affected staff confirmed the development to the Source . On why the resignation of Key management staff which include Head of station, head of engineering,Head of news and Head of on air personalities,said the reason for their resignation include lack of coordination,lack of conducive working environment and a myriad of problems that affects the station in Kano. According to him the station in Kano is also unable to pay salaries as at when due as at now they are yet to pay us three months salaries said some the source. When contacted for comment over the allegations, the liberty radio station coordinator in Kano Aminu Nuruddin Amin told the source that the management staff did not resign as alleged ,the station is making some restructuring to give out its best to the audience. Aminu Nuruddin said they were just ask to tak...

APC Convention: Media subcommittee denies spending N800m on publicity

The Media subcommittee of the Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the media report claiming it spent the whooping sum of N800 million on the media for the recently help National Convention of the party as “strange news”, which is “totally untrue”. In a statement issued by the Secretary of the Subcommittee, Mallam Garba Shehu, the subcommittee, which was co-chaired by the governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the subcommittee, despite submitting a request for N360 million for its budget, only received a grant of N100 million for its job. Discrediting the news report, which was published by a national daily, the subcommittee said it could boldly stand to say if such a huge amount was spent on media works for the convention, its members were, and still are, unaware of the what, who, when and how it was expended. “The report in the Daily Telegraph that the Media Subcommittee of t...