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Momodu started Ovation International in 1996 [8] while still in exile. After the death of Abiola in prison, and the subsequent death of his military ruler Sani Abacha, Momodu ended his exile. Since then, he has expanded Ovation International, and which is now one of Africa's most popular celebrity magazines.
There were 48 magazines in Nigeria in 2004 most of which were news magazines. [1] Fashion magazines have also printed in the country, but these publications are relatively new. [ 2 ] Glossy women's magazines were first published in the country in the 1990s. [ 2 ]
May Ellen Ezekial Mofe-Damijo (1956 - 1996) also known as MEE [1] was a Nigerian journalist and writer who was the publisher of Classique magazine, a celebrity [2] and entertainment journal that has ceased publication. The magazine employed journalists such as Dele Momodu, Ben Charles Obi, and Rudolf Okonkwo. [3] [4]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Charles Frederick Millspaugh (June 20, 1854 – September 15, 1923) was an American botanist and physician, born at Ithaca, New York, and educated at Cornell and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He received his medical degree in 1881 and practiced medicine in Binghamton, New York until 1890.
This tradition firmly established newspapers as a means to advocate for political reform and accountability, roles they continue to fulfill in Nigeria today. Until the 1990s, most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Daily Trust , Next , Nigerian Tribune , The Punch , Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose ...
The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out in the ...
"Ulli Beier," an obituary, The Telegraph, 12 May 2011. In memory of Ulli Beier, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, December 2011. Chong Weng Ho, "Death of a giant (blak soul white skin: Ulli Beier)", 5 April 2011. Ulli Beier, The Origin of Life and Death: African Creation Myths (1966), online copy at African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey database)