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Branded TV entertainment keeps audiences glued

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0200

It remains a serious battle for advertisers to draw TV target audiences into watching commercials and then entice them to act upon the ads. Viewers are fond of channel hopping during ad breaks; in Nigeria, for example, the lack of television content has been blamed for this avoidance, yet even with the introduction of satellite TV and local stations loaded with content, this has not changed.
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Courses set for August and September in Johannesburg and Cape Town

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:49:00 +0200

Organisational communication training specialists, Quo Vadis Communications, is to run two additional courses before the year's end to meet demand.
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Flying Dove opens new Sony showrooms in Lagos

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:56:00 +0200

LAGOS: Flying Dove, a distributor of Sony consumer electronics products in Nigeria commissioned on 26 June 2009 two new Sony Showrooms in Lagos. They are located at the Palms Shopping Mall and at Victoria Island.
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Never waste a good recession sale

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:04:00 +0200

This is the Manic Promotion you have been waiting for, with specials to help you forget about the economic problems the world faces. The economic doom and gloom has had some positive impact and Display Mania's Manic Promo reinforces this with a killer Sale on our top-of-the-range products, however, never compromising on quality.
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A kiosk for every occasion

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:34:00 +0200

Point-of-sale advertising with a sales platform ideally suited for rural Africa? Look no further than our Kiosk Range. With an emphasis on portability and value-for-money, our various kiosks are a great investment for point-of-sale, events and informal trading.
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CPJ urges Nigeria to probe police harassment, assault

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:35:00 +0200

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on national police Inspector General Mike Okiro to investigate reports that Delta state police harassed six journalists and attacked at least three of them last week.
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Starfish Mobile International launches in Malawi

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:08:00 +0200

Starfish Mobile International, an African Wireless Application Service Provider (WASP), has partnered with Telekom Network Malawi (TNM), an African mobile network provider, in launching and strategically driving TNM's Mobile Content business and services in Malawi.
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MTI Nigeria reports positive results

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:35:00 +0200

Nigeria's Mass Telecom Innovation (MTI) Plc has released a positive set of results for the first quarter of the year ending 31 March 2009.
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Telkom to improve business in Nigeria

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:40:00 +0200

JOHANNESBURG: The number one priority of Telkom is to improve business in Nigeria, the telecommunications giant said on Tuesday, 23 June 2009.
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Gambian journalists charged with sedition

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:42:00 +0200

NEW YORK: A magistrate in the Gambian capital, Banjul, on Thursday, 18 June 2009 charged seven journalists with sedition for criticising President Yahya Jammeh's televised comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara, their defense lawyer said.
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