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Emir of Kano, Sanusi receives seized travel passports from SSS

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The SSS yesterday November 8th returned the international travel passports (diplomatic & standard)  of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, which they seized a few months ago after he was removed as the head of the Central Bank. His diplomatic passport was seized at Lagos airport on his return from Niger Republic while his standard passport was seized at the Kano Airport when he tried to travel to France. The passports was returned to him at his Palace yesterday following his recent reconciliation with president Jonathan. by linda ikeji

MEDIA CONVERGENCE AND JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA

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Director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr Peter Jack Journalism tomorrow will be centered on mobility and a 360-degree approach to news. All media will be one. This is the essence of media convergence. Over the course of the past decade, the  digitization  and  socialization  of the news production, transmission and circulation process has posed a major challenge to the journalism profession and have brought about radical changes for media businesses, journalists, and citizens at large. With Social Media and online journalism growing increasingly pervasive and prominent due to its ability to dramatically raise faster awareness about an event, a divide now exists between the awareness of the event and its report by a journalist. This unprecedented  growth has provided a multiple platform for story-telling and for distributing journalistic content. While the journalists of today operate in an ever faster-paced industry, a