Sentences with phrase «who briefed journalists»

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Aliyu Sabi - Abdullahi, who briefed journalists in Abuja on Thursday, announced that a Federal High Court had ruled that the upper chamber of the National Assembly had the powers to confirm or reject Magu's appointment.

The suspect, according to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, who briefed journalists in Osogbo on Tuesday said Adeyeye was arrested by the police in Ipetumodu following a tip - off.

Chairman House Committee on Information, Hon. Josuha Oyebamiji who briefed journalists after the plenary said that the order takes effect immediately.

Not exact matches

But the new policy permits the continuing — perhaps now expanding — use of at least two dozen journalists who are free - lance, unaccredited, unpaid, or rewarded by CIA «briefings» in lieu of money — as well as the use of American news executives who have been important «media assets» in the past.

While describing it as a political witch - hunt, The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, who spoke while briefing journalists in Benin, the state capital, said that the state government's move was a clear sign of political desperation and persecution of the former governor, rather than addressing the numerous challenges facing the state.

Deputy Health Director in charge of Clinical Care, Fred Adomako - Boateng who addressed journalists at the briefing said the Ministry is on top of the issues and is still putting in place measures to curb the outbreak.

Journalists who ask questions about this needn't base them on their own assessment of Miliband, but one offered by voters in polls and Miliband's colleagues in briefings.

The Bauchi APC leaders had a closed - door meeting with Oyegun at the national secretariat in Abuja, after which the member representing Bauchi - North at the Senate, Suleiman Nazif, who addressed journalists, said they came to brief the party on the developments in the state.

Briefing journalists on the incident, Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng, said the complainant during his report to police mentioned Charles Sarpong alias Gangster, who he knows in the community neighborhood as one of the suspects.

Mr Watson, who resigned as minister for digital engagement at the reshuffle, backs a call by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, for a ban on anonymous briefings to lobby journalists, and calls for internet bloggers to be given the same access to Westminster as the lobby.

Journalists had been briefed last night to expect numerous attacks from Stuart Rose on the «quitters» who want to walk away from the fight for Britain's rights in the EU.

Briefing journalists after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said Jonathan, who presided over the meeting, insisted that he did not want any of the projects initiated under his administration to be abandoned as such not only traps money belonging to the country but also denies them the use and benefit of such projects.

According to the reporter, Simon Ateba who was among other journalists present at the briefing, he was prevented by a lady from asking a question as he realized that the president had already been told of the questions which were meant to be asked.

But more names are being briefed to a hardy seven - strong group of journalists who've been camped outside his office all day.

This represents a change in stance for the leader's office, who on Friday were briefing selected lobby journalists that Phil Woolas political career «is over», as a result of the election court ruling.

Today at a briefing for journalists, Toshitsugu Fujii, who chairs the JMA Coordinating Committee for Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions, got a chance for rebuttal.

The brief names three defendants: investigative journalist Brian Deer, who analyzed Wakefield's data in a BMJ article and accused him of fraud, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee, who threw the journal's support behind the fraud accusation in an editorial, and BMJ as a whole.

In brief: The membership of the HFPA never surpasses 100 and is ostensibly made up entirely of journalists based in Southern California who work for foreign publications — though even that status is hard to verify in a few cases.

Jeremy Irons plays an author / journalist who has lived on Hong Kong for fifteen years, scribing such works as «How to Make Money in Asia» (scratching out the «Make», and replacing it with «Lose» during a brief book - signing scene) He is in love with a karaoke - bar - owning woman played by the ever - radiant Gong Li, who has locked herself into an extremely complex relationship with a man about to gain political control of Hong Kong (Michael Hui).

Journalists and opinion columnists [3], accustomed to «mastering a brief» at short notice are also highly susceptible — lawyers who may actually have to master briefs involving technical issues seem mostly to recognise that this is the kind of problem where expert judgement is required, as does the more sensible kind of economist [4]

This briefing was run in collaboration with WHO Europe to update journalists on the latest surveillance figures for HIV / AIDS in Europe ahead of World AIDS Day 2011.

The initial release of Workspace will be «modest,» according to Elisabet Hardy, vice president of product management at Elite, and Eric Sugden, Elite's CTO, who gave a briefing on Workspace to a group of journalists last week.

The campaign delegation included Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative, who together with campaign coordinator Mary Wareham met with Michael Møller, Director - General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and briefed UN journalists.