TRADITIONAL MEDIA SHOULD BRACE UP TO THE TREND OF DIGITAL MEDIA

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi (left); Chief Executive Officer, Ventra Media Media Group, Daryn Wober; Chief Executive Officer, AIM Higher Consulting, Peace Hyde; Content partnerships Lead, Sub Saharan Africa – YouTube, Teju Ajani and Digital Manager, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Adetomiwa Aladekomo at the ‘Future of Digital Publishing’ to mark Social Media Week in Lagos…yesterday Source; http://www.ngrguardiannews.com

The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi has advised traditional media to take advantage of digital platform if they want to remain relevant in the industry.

Ogunlesi made this call at the day one of the on-going Social Media Week in Lagos.

According to the Special Adviser, digital platform is shaping the taste of audience, though he felt that the traditional media are not taking advantage of the digital platforms. 

In his words, “If you look at the traditional newspapers, none of them has focused on digital publishing,” he said.

He encouraged the traditional media, which he tagged the legacy media, to begin to explore the advantages of digital platforms, including having videos on their platform. He also believed that digital publishing takes different formats and digital platforms have varied effect with audience. He said some communities might be very in tune with Facebook, Twitter and Instragram, while in some other communities, it could be just downloading video content and sharing it through phones.

Ogunlesi opined that authors and creative minds should not be scared of their works being pirated or stolen on the digital platforms because what is most important at the initial stage is having their works in the public domain so that the audience could appreciate it.

In his words, “ it is when the audience appreciates the works that the benefits and monetisation of the works become an issue. For him, nobody would see and appreciate a poem or a creative work written in a book that is kept at home,” ogunlesi said.

In moving forward, Ogunlesi said that cost of access and speed are two key issues that are limiting the use of digital platforms in Nigeria. For him, the two issues will always continue to define the use of social media platforms in the country.

22-year-old man steals women’s underwear to satisfy sexual urge

 

The Anambra State Police Command at the weekend, paraded a 22-year-old man, Chigozie Ugwu, for stealing 52 women’s underwear.

Ugwu confesses that he indulges in the act to satisfy his sexual urge, claiming that he was not aware that his action was an offence until security operatives arrested him.

According to him, he feels the urge to have sexual intercourse any time he picked a woman’s undies.

Ugwu who was among the 15 suspected cult members and armed robbers paraded at the state command’s headquarters, told The Punch he had no girlfriend and pleaded that the police should release him.

Ugwu said, “I didn’t know that it was an offence to take women’s pants. I don’t have any girlfriend. So, each time I am with any woman’s underwear, I feel like I am making love, that’s why I go about picking and keeping women’s pants.

“I didn’t know it was an offence until the police arrested me. Please, tell them to release me. I didn’t intend to steal those things. I think it’s a spiritual problem,” he added.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Ali Okechukwu, parading the suspects, said all hands were on deck to curb crime in the state.

REFEREE SHOT AND KILLED IN ARGENTINA

 Argentine Police are searching for a footballer who is believed to have shot and killed a referee after being sent off in an amateur match played in the Córdoba province of Argentina.

 Local reports revealed that the player retrieved a gun from his bag after being shown a red card, returned to the pitch and shot 48-year-old César Flores dead.

A police source told the Efe news agency: “It all happened during the football match. We don’t know [exactly what took place], but it appears the player was angry, fetched a gun and killed him,” the source said.

UNCLE BEHEADS THREE-YEAR-OLD NIECE IN ONDO

The gory picture of Adubarin

 Samuel Omosaba, 42 years, was on Tuesday arrested by the Police for allegedly beheading his three year-old niece, Adubarin Kola in Ondo State South-West, Nigeria.

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It was revealed that the Omosaba who was jobless had contacted an herbalist for money ritual and the spiritualist had  told him that the only way to make him rich was for him to look for a head of a baby.

Daily post reported that  the deceased was always put in custody of her grandmother at Ilepa quarters in Ikare anytime her mother, Bunmi, who is a trader was going to the market to sell her goods.

Meanwhile, on the day the little girl met her untimely death, Bunmi was said to have taken Adubarin to her mother in-law but only met her husband elder brother at home and he promised to take care of the child until her grandmother returns home.

On her return from the market, Bunmi met her daughter’s lifeless body in Samuel’s room.

The suspect was said to have confessed to the family members that he killed the girl for ritual purposes.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Femi Joseph, who confirmed the incident said the matter had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigative Department (CID) Akure for further investigation.

BUK NAME PATE AS THE PIONEER DEAN OF FACULTY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND FILM STUDIES

The Management of Bayero University, Kano has announced Professor Umaru A. Pate as the pioneer Dean of Faculty of Communications and Film Studies, Bayero University, Kano {BUK}.

The management of the University made this known after the Faculty was accredited and endorsed by the National University Commission {NUC}.

The Faculty will kick off with three Departments: Communication Studies, Theatre and Performing Arts and Information and Media Studies.

It was gathered that aside from Pate who is the Dean of the Faculty, he will be assisted with Dr. Suleiman Yar’dua as the Deputy , others Hajara Sanada {Sub-Dean; Academics} and Dr. Mainasara Kurfi as the Sub-Dean, Facilities.

The University explained that the major reason for the establishment of the Faculty is to improve and ensure a better professionalism in the field of Communication. 

Police Disrupt Gay Wedding in Abuja, Arrest Couple

The Suspects

A gay wedding between two men, was Saturday, disrupted by the police of the  Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

The wedding which was reportedly to be  between Ibrahim Lawal (husband) and Umar Tahir (wife), took place at a certain hotel, King’s Land, in the Jiwa Community of the FCT.
It was, however, disrupted by officials of the Command.

According to Punch,  the FCT Police Command spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Anjuguri Manzah, stated why the marriage was disrupted by the command, said, “We acted based on the provisions of the Same-Sex Prohibition Act signed into law in 2013.”

Manzah said the command received an intelligence report and swiftly moved to the venue of the event to stop the marriage from holding.

“We acted fast, following a tip-off, by moving to the venue of the event to stop it.

“The names of the couple are Ibrahim Lawal (husband) and Umar Tahir (wife), and both men are from Kaduna State.

“The police is investigating the case and would charge the couple and other persons involved in the ceremony to court,” the spokesman added.

Meanwhile, apart from the couple, the police also arrested some other persons connected to the ceremony.

“We also arrested the sponsors of the wedding and the owner of the hotel where the event was billed to hold,” an officer was quoted to have said.

It would be recalled that Nigeria is among 38 African countries to have outlawed same-sex marriage.

Also in 2013, ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan signed into law the Same-Sex Prohibition Act.

Lagos police nab ‘mad man’ with 22 ATM cards, bank tellers

The Suspect

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command assigned  to the Victoria Island area of Lagos State, have arrested a suspected a mad man, Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, with two mobile phones, 22 Automated Teller Machine, ATM cards, several bank tellers of recent bank transactions and a power bank.

The 39-year-old suspect, who according to the police had been on their watch-list for about two weeks, was arrested by the RRS operatives with a knapsack on Ozumba Mbadiwe Road.

The police said they were not convinced that Jaiyeola was actually mad, because initially, he was well-spoken, later on, he started talking unreasonably. They however, took him to their base in Alausa, Ikeja.

The police discovered that eight of the credit cards which had different names and banks, were still valid.

According to Punch, one of the officials who didn’t want his name reiterated that the appeared like a mentally unstable person.

In his words, “When we invited him for interrogation, he responded normal to all our enquiries and a few minutes into the interrogation, he started straying from the normal course of our enquiries and was not making sense at all,” he disclosed.

He disclosed further, “Inside the backpack, we found several bank tellers of recent bank transactions, 22 ATM cards, a power bank, lots of invoices hidden in pieces of papers, one Nokia phone and a BlackBerry.”

A policeman at their base in Alausa, Ikeja, said, “The suspect made statements suggestive of somebody disguising as a mad man to perpetrate crime.

According to the unidentified police officer, “Initially, we noticed that he was mentally balanced because he was answering the questions posed to him adequately. But all of a sudden, he started sounding incoherent and illogical again.

The RRS Commander, Olatunji Disu, who confirmed the arrest  said, “Jaiyeola has been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja for detention and further investigation.”

FG RELIEVESSIX INFORMATION PARASTATALS

Alhaji  Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government has on Monday axe heads of the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture.

This was made known in statement issued by Segun Adeyemi, Special Adviser to Hon Minister of Information and Culture.

According to the statement , ”The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the disengagement during a meeting he held with the Chief Executives of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Voice of Nigeria (VON), News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Monday .

”The affected Chief Executives are the Directors-General of NTA, Mr. Sola Omole, FRCN (Mr. Ladan Salihu), VON (Mr Sam Worlu), NOA (Mr. Mike Omeri), NBC (Mr. Emeka Mba) and the Managing Director of NAN (Mr. Ima Niboro).”

”The Minister directed the disengaged Chief Executives to hand over to the most senior officials in their various establishments.

”He thanked them for their service to the nation and wished them the best of luck in their future endeavours.

JFC VISITS THE NATION NEWSPAPER

Journalists have been charged to engage on more research  into gender reporting.

Mr. Soji Omotunde, General Manager {Training & Development} made this call when members of Journalists For Christ {JFC} paid a courtesy visit to him at The Nation Newspaper on Thursday.

Mr. Gbenga Osinaike, Project Coordinator, JFC disclosed that the purpose of the visit is to present some copies of the book, Mainstream Gender Reporting on Affirmative Action of Women And Girls Rights Issues which was  published  by JFC.

Osinaike reiterated further that the purpose of the book is to understand how journalists covers issues relating to women and girls in the society citing six Newspapers in the country and to change the way and manner news are being reported especially as they have to do with female folks.

In her own view, Jacqueline Ogoh submitted that media sensitization and reportage of women  and girl child is not balanced. She claimed that more attention is being given to the rich women in the society while the poor and less privileged are being sidelined.

Ogoh is of the opinion that intensive investigation need to be done especially on cases of rape, assault and crime among others especially as they relate to female gender.

Mrs. Patience Saduwa, revealed that cultural and environmental factors contributes to ineffectiveness of female reportage. This pointed out that most women are not ready to open up due to some cultural and environmental factors.

However, Ogoh encouraged that there is a need to educate and orientate the female gender on the importance of their voice in fighting gender imbalance in the country.

Omotunde concluded that women are created out of men and they should not see themselves as equal or superior to the men.

ORANGUTANS ATTEND SCHOOL

  A group of Orangutans are attending forest school in Indonesia, Sky News report.

The purpose is to teach them skills  like foraging and nest-making in the hope they can be reintroduced to the wild.

The animals live at IAR's sanctuary in Ketapang, in Kaliman province in eastern Indonesia's Borneo island, and rehabilitation could take seven to eight years.

According to Karmele Llano Sanchez, IAR’s project Director in Indonesia, "When the orangutans arrive here we try to give them an environment that is as natural as possible, that is why we created the forest schools.

 

"And these forest schools are the forest areas where the orangutans come every day from the morning until the evening, and they're given the chance to stay overnight in the forest when they start learning how to make a nest.

"What we want is to try to replicate what an orangutan will do in the wild, so this is what they will learn during the process of rehabilitation," he said.

Sky News confirmed that there are currently 102 orangutans living in the sanctuary, but not all primates attend the school because some have suffered long-term injuries that mean they can never return to the wild.

The population of the endangered species, mainly found in southeast Asia, has decreased tremendously due to illegal poaching and habitat loss.

Experts say Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical forest acreage, holds the key to the problem and needs to put into practice a long-term plan to enforce laws, tackle fires and spend more on prevention.

Prostitute ‘surgically removed from client after he died during sex’

Metro has revealed a video that apparently shows a prostitute stuck to an elderly client who died on her.

   Hidden under a blanket, the footage is purported to show the prostitute on top of the man while still attached at the genitals.

According to Metro, the video was first posted on Miaopai – China’s version of YouTube – before it was put onto Liveleak.

The exact circumstances of what happened and how the pair came to be stuck together in such a way are unclear.

They were taken to hospital where it is believed they were separated before his body was taken to the morgue.

People have previously become stuck together during intercourse through something known as penis captivus.

This is where the vagina clamps down on the penis – a rare occurrence that normally rights itself once things have calmed down a bit.

20 STOP RICHES CLUBS IN THE WORLD

RECENTLY, FORBES RELEASES THE LIST OF THE 20 RICHES FOOTBALL CLUBS AS FOLLOW:

1.      Real Madrid: $3.26 billion  .The richest club according to both Forbes and French sports money magazine deloitte, Real Madrid has been no.1 in the money table for several years now since overtaking Manchester United. They won the Champions League 2013-14 title which was 10th time in clubs history making them the most successful club not only in Spain but also in the world. So their on the field performances and off the pitch marketing success is largely down to their ever present star studded squads also known as Glacticos.

2.      FC Barcelona: $3.17 billion.  FC Barcelona is the second richest club in the world just behind Real Madrid and thats mostly down to their success on the field in last 1 decade. Barcelona are coming into 2015-16 season on the back of a historic treble as they won 4th champions league title in last 10 years making them the most successful team of recent history.

3.      Manchester United: $3.10 billion .  Manchester United secured lucarative champions league berth after finishing fourth 2014-15 premier league season and they have already forked out £80 million on buying 4 new players and a got rid of some high wage contracts of Van Persie, Falcao and Nani. Of the field they secured couple of massive deals in biggest shirt sponsorship (Chevrolet) & kit suppliers deal (Adidas) in the history of the club. Which means they will continue to buy top class players in coming years.

4.    FC Bayern Munich: $2.34 billion.   When Pep Guardiola took charge of FC Bayern Munich two years ago they had just won the treble of domestic league, cup and the champions League and Bayern had the highest wage bill in German league. The wage bill for treble winning side in 2013 was around €150 million (euros) but with the arrival of Pep Guardiola and some very high profile signings in two years he has been in charge at the club Bayern Munich’s most recent wage bill has increased to €180 million which got an increase of €30 million in just over an year.

5.      Manchester City: $1.37 billion.  Manchester City spend big in 2015 summer transfer window and brought in the likes of Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne, Nicolas Otamendi, Fabien Delph and Patrick Robers in high profile transfers. Their wagebill was second highest behind Manchester United but with the summer spending spree combined with new contracts offered to the likes of Aguero, David Silva, Kompany and Hart in the last 6 months, we can safely assume their wage bill will be most expensive not only in premier league but in European football.

 

6.      Chelsea FC: $1.36 billion. Chelsea reportedly got a massive increase (30%) in their yearly revenue after winning 2014-15 Premier League title but their wage bill is also increase by £25 million making them team which highest wage bill in premier league. Chelsea went on to added Juan Cuadrado in 2015 January transfer window While brought in Rademal Falcao on a season long loan at reportedly £140,000 a week salary and added Pedro, Baba Rehman, Asmir Begovic for around £44 million in Summer 2015. They also added Alexander pato on a 6 month loan deal costing £30,000 a week.

7.      Arsenal FC: $1.30 billion. Arsenal’s wage bill increased from  £166 million in 2014 to £180 million as they brought in number of high profile players in summer transfer window of 2014. Heading into the 2015-16 season they have not made big singings apart from Petre Cech who joined the club for £12 million and their wage bill will remain more-a-less same for next season, which is still far better than Manchester United current wage bill is the highest in league with £214 million while City’s current wage bill is around £206 million.

8.      Liverpool FC: $982 million. Liverpool had a brilliant 2013-14 season where they finished just 1 point behind Manchester City in second place, but with the departure of Luis Suarez in the summer lead to a whole lot of changes in the squad with many new players coming in which lead to terrible season where they finished outside for top 4 and missed out on 2015-16 champions league.

9.      Juventus: $837 million. Juventus has the highest wage bill in Italian Serie 2015-16 season with a massive €124 million spent on players wages. Even with the departure of some big name players like Carlos Tevez, Pirlo and Vidal the wage bill increased with the new signings in summer 2015. Below is the full list of players yearly salaries and contracts.

10.  AC Milan : $775 million. It’s been a few years since level of competition in Italian Serie A has been going down and all the big clubs are failing to attract top young players around the world. With the exception of Juventus who just won their 4th consecutive Serie A title couple of week ago, all other clubs reduced their wages. 

Others are:

Borussia Dortmund : $700 million 

Paris Saint Germain: $634 million 

Tottenham Hotspurs:  $600 million 

FC Schalke :       $572 million 

 Inter Milan:    $439 million 

Atletico Madrid : $436 million 

Napoli : $353 million 

Newcastle United: $349 million 

West Ham United : $309 million 

Galatasaray : $294 million