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Former CNN producer and current Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Howard University in Washington, DC,Professor Jennifer Thomas,  will visit Lagos for activities marking this year’s World Press Freedom Day. Professor Thomas is expected in Nigeria from April 29 to May 3, joining the United States Consulate General to mark the event and she  will conclude her her week-long engagements …

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—To Vie For $100,000 Grand Prize Cable News Network (CNN) has named a Nigerian youth, Ms. Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin, as one of its Top 10 Heroes of the Year. The 10 finalists are “remarkable trailblazers who have truly changed the world,” according to CNN, and each of them will get $10,000. This is as the CNN Hero of the Year will …

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Mother of Leah Sharibu,the Dapchi schoolgirl still in Boko Haram custody, has denied the reports that she is suing the Federal Government. There were reports in the local media that Rebecca Sharibu had sued the Federal Government for damages. However, according to CNN, she “strenuously denied” the claims she took such a legal action against the government. Advertisement Her reaction …

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CNN anchor and correspondent, Isha Sesay, has narrated the impact of Nigerian doctors and nurses in the recovery of her sick mother. The British of Sierra Leonean descent took to twitter yesterday being ‘thankful there were medical options in Nigeria for my mother.’ Isha, who is based in Los Angeles, in the United States, stated that her mother was in …

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TAYO OLANIPEKUN Criticism has continued to trail the recent action of CNN television presenter, RezaAslan, for eating a human brain and taking an alcoholic drink from a humanskull while filming with an Hindu sect, the Aghori. He was also pelted with faeces by the guru who ate his own excreta and threatenedto cut off Aslan’s head should the journalist continue …

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