Although fewer journalists are dying, more are being detained, according to Reporters Without Borders. FORTY NINE JOURNALISTS were killed in 2019, Reporters Without Borders said this week, the lowest death toll in 16 years. Reporters who died this year mostly died covering conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan, the Paris-based watchdog said, which warned that “journalism remains […]
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Category: Islam & Media
Indian Police under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government are now showing their true colors, different from the heroic feats they show us in their key propaganda tool, Bollywood. They’re brutal and show no mercy to anything Islam and the Muslims, a reflection of their manhandling of the varsity students protesting the exclusion of Indian Muslims from […]
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Multiple-award winning journalist, Adeola Yusuf, has again, won the Nigeria’s Energy Correspondent of The Year Award at the 29th Prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA). Yusuf, a devout Muslim fought for and secured with the help of Allah, the page for news about Islam known as ‘The Islam Page’ in the New Telegraph newspaper. The […]
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The Department of Mass Communication, Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, has honoured the Publisher of Muslim News Nigeria, Mallam Rasheed Abubakar with the Muslim Media Rights Award for his outstanding and innovative contributions to the ‘Muslim media Rights in Nigeria’. The plaque bestowing the honour was presented to him by the Head of Department (HOD), […]
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+ Why no Nigerian made the list The entertainment industry, no doubt, has a fair inclusion of Muslim players across the globe. Though they do not account for a huge proportion, few of female Muslim entertainers have used their profession and influence to defend the rights of Muslims and fight against the rising trend of […]
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I went speechless when I saw the video of some secondary school students (mostly girls in the hijab – Muslims headscarf) who came out in their hundreds to receive a Nigerian youngster, Korede Bello during his performance in the neighbouring Niger Republic, recently. They were seen in the video, screaming and swarming around the artiste […]
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The publisher of ‘The Muslim 500’, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre has released the much awaited 2020 edition of the annual compilation that ranks the most influential Muslims in the world. Sahara Reporters, an online medium broke the news on Wednesday, with what many critics believe to be a sensational headline: ‘EXCLUSIVE: Buhari, Boko […]
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Few days before the commencement of the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held this week in New York, the Nigerian media was awash with the news that the fugitive leader of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu would be attending the meeting that had in attendance more than 90 world leaders, […]
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Chinese Communist Party crackdown on Muslim population spreading as Xi Jinping sees dissent In China’s northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. Authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one in a small village near Linxia, a city […]
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A one-day post-graduate colloquium, held on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano had media scholars and researchers in attendance. MUSLIM NEWS NIGERIA Reports… The post graduate students of Mass Communication department and few others with Social Science background from Bayero University, Kano State, converged at the Faculty of […]
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