Patrick Utomi is a top Nigerian political economist, management consultant and entrepreneur who has made significant impact in the areas of social advocacy, banking (Bank PHB) and publishing (BusinessDay). He bares his mind (via Daily Sun, Nigeria) on his plans for the new year.

Mr. Kolawole Abiola, the son of the late billionaire businessman, politician and publisher of the rested National Concord, among other titles, is the brain behind the emergence of Waseet, an international publication, into the Nigerian market.
A free weekly, it is also a classified advertising publication that is in circulation in 12 countries. It is published [...]

NEXT - the newest addition to the burgeoning Nigerian media-sphere launched its online edition on Friday. It was a ’soft launch’ - the web site is still sparely populated as I write and far from perfect, just as Jeremy Waite, the publisher of Naija Blog and NEXT project leader discloses in his blog. The screenshot [...]

The Africa Channel is a new television network that offers over 1600 hours of high quality and award winning television programming from the continent of Africa — shows never before seen in the United States.
The Africa Channel which debuted on the Time Warner Cable Network in Los Angeles in July and became available in [...]

A media bill has sparked controversy in Kenya. Critics have attacked the Kenya Communications Amendment Bill saying it will gag the press. The new bill gives the minister for internal security the power to raid a media house, search its premises, dismantle broadcast equipment and take a station off air. But the government is standing [...]

Intelsat, the private equity-owned satellite operator, has struck a financing deal to launch a $250m satellite for Africa. It is a sign of the continued confidence in the rocket-launching division of the media and telecoms industry…The special purpose vehicle structure, which has not been seen before in the satellite industry, will keep Intelsat’s investment to [...]

Reporters Without Borders reports the release of Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, the Nigerian editor of the Huhuonline.com website, after a week of interrogation by the dreadful State Security Service (SSS), the domestic intelligence agency. Although Emeka has been released, the SSS was held on to his passport.
“Irked by websites with political or satirical content, the Nigerian [...]

Farafina magazine was started in 2004 as an online magazine. It was in this original incarnation that the magazine established contact with contemporary writers based in Nigeria and overseas, publishing the early work of such writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Petina Gappah, Tolu Ogunlesi, Yemisi Ogbe and Victor Ehikhamenor.
Below is issue 15 of [...]

A US journalist’s rights group said on Friday that Nigeria is holding a US-based blogger without charge, in the second such incident in two weeks.
Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, editor of the Arlington, Massachusetts-based HuhuOnline website, which focuses on Nigerian politics, was arrested on Tuesday at the Abuja airport, and has been “held incommunicado and without charge [...]

Nigeria joins the rank of nation that gets jittery over blogs and bloggers. The Nigerian authorities arrested Jonathan Elendu (Elendu Reports), a US-based Nigerian blogger, moments his plane landed in Abuja on October 18. The laws of Nigeria informs us that the state can’t detain anyone more than 48hrs without being charged to court. Do [...]