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EDITORIAL: WHY MEDIA HOUSES, PRACTITIONERS, SHOULD IGNORE FACELESS PRESS STATEMENTS AND PRESS RELEASES IN PLATEAU

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  It is a fact that the history of the media cannot ignore the role Post Offices played by publishing letters written through them. It is also in Media Practice that Press Statements and Press Releases like the Post Office's purpose of publishing abandoned letters operate in different capacities and relevance. While the Press Statement is to enable society or a particular State, Community or Group to understand an issue(s) and the position taken by the writers or authors on it, the Press Release is to alert the public of a new or strange development. It therefore follows that anybody using these instruments to reach out to the general public with their opinion, must have the capacity of being identified and sued when need be. For these capacities to exist, the person or organization must be traceable, and formally registered with an identifiable umbrella ad if it is just a Movement, the signatory must be identifiable, and with their name and the capacity they hold on behalf...

EASTER MESSAGE: NIGERIANS SHOULD HAVE FAITH DESPITE THE CHALLENGING ECONOMY. PDP CHAIRMAN NASARAWA STATE URGES

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  By: Wilson Bako (Lafia), Nigerians have again been urged to continue to have faith in the country despite the daunting economic challenges that have bedeviled the Nation The Nasarawa State Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Francis Orogu, made this appeal in his Easter Message to Christians and other Nigerians, as they commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He called on Nigerians to remain “focused, committed, and steadfast in line with the virtues of Christ who sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind”. HON. FRANCIS OROGU, NASARAWA STATE PDP CHAIRMAN He noted that the country is certainly going through its worst moments which calls for sacrifice from all, while charging those in leadership positions to strife towards the provision of the Dividend of Democracy to the electorates. He further challenged those in authority to prioritize the welfare and well-being of the citizens, while pointing out that they should stop paying lip se...

YOU LIED! YOU WERE NEVER CONTRACTED BY PLATEAU STATE GOVT---DR. TIMOTHY GOLU, SLAMS COLUMNIST MAL. MAHMUD JEGA

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  By: Amb. Valentine Adese (JP), The Special Adviser to Plateau State Governor on Strategic Communications, Hon. Timothy Golu has described one of the nation’s ace columnists, Mallam Mahmud Jega, as a liar, for alleging that the Plateau State Government had engaged him via an official letter to help in the placement of the 204 Media Aides it just appointed. Hon. Golu in his reply to Jega’s column published on Monday 18th March 2024, with the caption, ‘Assigning Mutfwang’s 204 Media Aides’ on the back page of ThisDay, submitted that the ace writer may have been dealing with dubious minds. He also slammed Jage’s inability to do good research before accepting an offer from an alleged government official.   Hon. Golu in his reply in part stated “We read with an incredible inertia and huge surprise what could be best perceived as dry jokes and comedies that was written by one of the nation’s ace columnists, Mallam Mahmud Jega, on the back page of ThisDay in his ‘View...