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NUJ honours Daily Independent Journalist, Jide Oyekunle with Torchbearer Award for Press Freedom

Lukman Laleye Babalola

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has conferred the Torchbearer of Press Freedom Award 2025 on Comrade Jide Oyekunle, a journalist with Daily Independent and Secretary of the NUJ FCT Council, in recognition of his resilience and bravery in the face of threats and intimidation. Oyekunle emerged as one of the few journalists nominated for the prestigious award, reserved for media professionals who have endured harassment, threats, and arrests in the course of discharging their duties. He received the honour during the Press Freedom and Good Governance Awards 2025 held…

JIFORM picks Yaqoub Popoola as 2nd Int’l Migration Summit LOC Chairman

Emporium Reporters

The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) has named frontline journalist with the Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), Yaqoub Popoola as the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of its 2nd annual international migration summit themed Migration Management and Media Strategy for Development at Pandemic slated for Ibadan, Oyo State on October 15, 2002.   The media practitioner became the second JIFORM LOC Chairman for the programme which had Deputy Comptroller James Sunday, the National Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service as its inaugural point man in 2019.   Popoola who…