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http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201104033145531

[size=14pt]Banke Balogun retraces steps[/size]
Kemi Lawal

Publicity-shy Banke Balogun is the wife of the Managing Director and Chief Executive of FCMB, Ladi Balogun. The latter is the son of Otunba Subomi Balogun who doubles as a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. His mother Olori Adetutu Balogun is one of society’s leading matriarchs.

The duo of Banke and Ladi exchanged marital vows at a stately ceremony many years ago that recorded the presence of who is who in the society.

The ceremony dominated discourse for a long time owing to its opulence.

Embracing motherhood shortly after she got married, Banke maintained a respectable distance from the social scene. Content with being a wife and mother, she devoted her time to caring for her family except on rare occasions when she attended functions in company with her husband.

She took a bold step last year when she began to appear at functions on a regular basis and without her husband in tow.

Just when many people were applauding her decision and getting familiar with her appearances, she withdrew from the social scene yet again. Her sudden disappearance has caused eyebrows to be raised and not a few are asking if anything is amiss.

AjanleKoko:

E be like say Saga no dey read anything except papers published and staffed by Bristol grads

sinistyle:

Wow! LMFAO. . .Criticise Nigerian journalists, et tu stalagmite? Who're you kidding here? You illiterate! As far as intelligence goes, you are bankrupt. You have no intellectual deposit to criticise anyone. . . This is plain funny and I dey laugh hard.

Who the fck is this reetard[b]![/b]

sinistyle:

@ stalagmite:
I always thought you had a sieve for a brain, you've just quashed every doubt I had in mind.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=584507.msg7625079#msg7625079
Do you remember me now?

Just look at the rubbish you typed with your sausage-size fingers, you dysmorphic ape!
You can't make a grammatically faultless statement yet you go about insulting Nigerian journalists. You must be the daftness blueprint.

jaymdee:

Who is this loud-mouth arm chair critic? You give NL readers an indication that you are not entirely destructive, but from your posts, I have seen that you are bent on presenting the fourth estate as totally useless. Why don't you make a (never would be) appreciated effort by posting some ethical, upright and world class news reports by Nigerians?

I know UK lecturers that cite works of Nigerian journalists, and offer same as study materials to their students. I need not mention the list of international awards Nigerian journalists have won: a long list.

Also, your light speed at spilling abuses and cheap curses suggests a misinformed, untrained, PS playing, Nappy-wearing teenager. If only you would be civil enough to post a self written 500 300 100 word piece on any topic to prove your erudition. 

You have the floor young man, and you can also continue with the childish insults to ascertain your nappy-wearing status. 

Sagamite:

You are proud to show me you are the reetard that struggles with English and said food cannot be pluralised? 

Cretin!

You are reetarded!

Bloody foool! I should compile news reports before being able to criticise journalists?

Cretinous product of the a dilapidated educational system
.

sinistyle:

What exactly is the aim of all these? To show us that only Nigerian journalists make errors, right? Your tomfoolery must indeed be written in the stars.

sinistyle:

Shut up! You cretinous cockchafer. Of course, corrections are of no use to you. You'd rather exist in absolute ignorance - your natural habitat.

What exactly is the aim of all these? To show us that only Nigerian journalists make errors, right? Your tomfoolery must indeed be written in the stars.

Bawss1:

Members of the fourth estate play a very important role in shaping public opinion, thats a role that has far reaching consequences. When they err the public should take note so as not be disadvantaged. Recall the saying that to be poorly informed is to be deformed?

Sagamite should be commended for starting this thread even though he needs to tone down his use of scurrilous words

fstranger3:

Commended for what?

For pointing at his father's house with his left hand? or for wasting his time pursuing trivialities instead of getting a job?

No one is perfect? He himself makes a lot of mistakes. Why castigate others?


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Bawss1:

Here is something I think should be classified under this thread. http://www.saharareporters.com/gallery/gejs-news-editorial-tools-reporters

Unfortunately (abi craftily) there are no names attached to this  piece of photo news. All we see is

"Goodluck Jonathan's campaign managers today assembled some news editors
at the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja and doled out N200,000 each in N500 denominations; to go with the cash is a Samsung Galaxy Tab and a pack of lapels.
The largesse was doled out to the editors from room 804 of the hotel at about 2pm today 6th April 2011."

For this story to be credible more information (names or pictures of the givers and the receivers)  than that provided above should have been provided, instead it comes across as cheap smear campaign.

Bawss1:

Now I'm confused. Whether or not they are a professional newspaper doesn't mean they don't somehow shape public opinion.

Imagine something of this nature appeared in CNN's iReports, shouldn't the so called reporter bear the responsibility of the news item s/he reports?

Journalism of no verification
October 4, 2010 by Cara Titilayo Harshman
http://northoflagos./page/9/

The Nigerian Tribune printed an article with the headline “Four Americans Here to Learn Yoruba Language” in the Saturday, October 2 edition of the paper. The article, by Sunday Saanu features a page-width picture of us, confusing information about our program and Yoruba language pedagogy in the U.S., and finally completely botched quotes from Kevin and I. You must understand that journalism in Nigeria does not have the same standards as journalism in the U.S. I am not trying to condemn Nigerian newspapers, but they do not adhere to credible methods of verification, which is so critical to journalism in the U.S. Direct quotes are not common, and if they do appear in an article, it’s not until the end. Such is the case with this article printed about us. Here is how they quoted me:

‘According to Cara who is now Titilayo, “I love Nigeria, I am really enjoying every minute, in fact, I can even get married here if I see an interested man because I am an open-minded person.”‘

I did not say this. Yes, I did use the words ‘open-minded person’, ‘enjoying Nigeria’, but not in any way that resembles “sentence”. I am not happy. I have received hoards of Facebook friend requests, messages and inquires from men about the possibility of me marrying them. Men are ruthless here. I think my professors here at the Yoruba Language Flagship Center are demanding a correction be printed.

A small saving grace: they printed my name “Cara Hashman.” Hopefully this glaring mistake will throw people off when they try to find me on the Internet.

The Punch Newspaper: Surprise as undergraduate Americans teach Nigerians Yoruba
by Cara Titilayo Harshman
http://northoflagos./

We made front page headlines again…I was standing with my classmates in the Faculty of Arts at UI this morning when one of my classmates told me, “Titi, mo ri oju e ni oju iwe kinni Punch loni. Titi, I saw you on the front page of Punch today.” I said “Enhh? Opuro ni e. You’re a liar.” He said he was serious, so I went to the Student Union Building to investigate. I approached the newspaper table where men (women are never there) congregate everyday to look at the headlines and gossip about news. I pushed my way to the front. Sure enough, there was my face on the bottom of the paper, under election headlines. I paid 150 Naira for the paper and after about five people nearby grabbed the paper from my hands and exclaimed that it was in fact me on the cover, was on my merry way.

The article is about the program we did at Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls a few weeks ago. It is well written for the most part but, like the other articles printed about us, there are serious misquotes. At least they captured the overall idea of what I wanted to say. I guess the exact words are too much to ask for.

semid4lyfe:

Sagamite, I agree with you jare. . .Most Nigerian Journalists are so unprofessional and full of crap.

Do you remember the Punch story about the 5 ''Yoruba'' Americans (Lauren Halloran, Caraline Harshman, Kelvin Barry, Kelly Moses and O’Neil Keegan) who were studying Yoruba @ the University of Ibadan? I think eku bear posted a thread on them on Nairaland not too long ago. .



Three of them (Lauren Halloran, Caraline Harshman & Kevin Barry)  have been actively blogging about their experiences studying & living in Nigeria and I've been following them (particularly Caraline) ON & OFF. . . . .

Twice, Caraline ''Titilayo'' Harshmann has criticised Nigerian Journalists for their news reporting. . . Read below


Seriously, Nigerian Journalists need to up their game.

Sagamite:

Take a look at this report for god sake.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/jonathan-maintains-lead-pdp-may-lose-more-states/89182/

The reetards can not even make an attempt to make the attached table, at the bottom of the report, visible to the intended readers.

They just dumbed it there without any effort of resizing it. Who the hell can read that? Where the fck is standards?

I dey do KOBOJUNKIE© for here

Bros, take am easy so gbo?

Nor burst a vein or give your self high blood pressure cos of Nigerian journalists

A friend of mine who's a writer is just as critical as you are and he says he only buys Complete sports cos to quote him ''It's better written than all the other regular papers cos all they do is copy and paste news stories from sports sites like goal.com, espnsoccernet.com'', football365.com etc

Meanwhile, I know mate is British lingo for friend but I find it offensive so I'll appreciate it if you don't refer to me as mate again.

semid4lyfe:

I dey do KOBOJUNKIE© for here

Bros, take am easy so gbo?

Nor burst a vein or give your self high blood pressure cos of Nigerian journalists

A friend of mine who's a writer is just as critical as you are and he says he only buys Complete sports cos to quote him ''It's better written than all the other regular papers cos all they do is copy and paste news stories from sports sites like goal.com, espnsoccernet.com'', football365.com etc

Meanwhile, I know mate is British lingo for friend but I find it offensive so I'll appreciate it if you don't refer to me as mate again.

Kilode?!:

After reading the recently passed FOI bill, I had to dig up this thread.

The bill will be a useless document if our journalists don't step up their game. For now there's a lot to be afraid of.

Although I Must say I'm glad we have a few good journalists and investigative reporters especially at Olojede's 234next, we definitely need more, else these politicians and public servants will continue to eat our lunch while pissing in our mouths.

Our people need to be better informed. Smart, dedicated, fair and professional journalism is key.