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The People Behind the Stories
Journalism is not produced by algorithms, platforms, or brands. It is produced by people — people who make phone calls, read court documents, travel to communities that do not make national headlines, sit across tables from officials who would rather not answer questions, and then sit alone and find the words that make the truth clear to a stranger reading on their phone in Lagos or London or Kano.
The Gazette News is built on those people. This page introduces the team whose work you read, whose judgment you trust when you choose to read us, and whose names appear on the journalism we publish.
At The Gazette News, every article carries a named byline. We do not publish anonymously. We stand behind every word with our names — because journalism that cannot be attributed to an accountable human being is not journalism worth reading.
Leadership
Vangawa Bolgent Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Vangawa Bolgent founded The Gazette News with the conviction that Nigeria’s independent media space needed a publication built from the ground up for the digital generation — rigorous in its journalism, human in its voice, and unapologetic in its independence.
A multimedia journalist, IT specialist, and public relations strategist, Vangawa brings together the two disciplines that define the modern independent news organisation: the editorial craft to tell stories that matter, and the technical expertise to build the platforms those stories deserve.
His journalism covers Nigerian national politics, governance, economic policy, and the intersection of technology with public life. He has reported across Nigeria and has a particular depth of experience covering federal-state political dynamics, party financing, electoral processes, and the accountability gaps in Nigeria’s public institutions.
As Editor-in-Chief of The Gazette News, Vangawa sets editorial direction, oversees publication standards, manages the senior editorial team, and is personally accountable for every significant editorial decision made on thegazette.ng. He is the final authority on corrections, right-of-reply decisions, and matters of editorial ethics.
He is also a pioneer in responsible AI adoption in African journalism — leading The Gazette News’s work to integrate artificial intelligence into newsroom operations as a tool that amplifies human journalism rather than replacing it.
Covers: National politics, governance, technology and media, editorial policy Contact: editor@thegazette.ng Twitter: @GazetteNG
Editorial Team
The Gazette News editorial team is growing. As we expand our coverage and our capacity, this page will be updated with full profiles of every journalist, editor, and contributor who works on our platform. All team members are introduced here as they join.
If you are a journalist, researcher, or editorial professional interested in joining The Gazette News, visit our Careers page at https://thegazette.ng/about/careers/ or contact us at careers@thegazette.ng
Contributors and Correspondents
The Gazette News publishes journalism from a network of contributing writers, specialist correspondents, and expert columnists across Nigeria, Africa, and the Nigerian diaspora. Contributors are introduced on their individual author profile pages, accessible by clicking any byline on a published article.
All contributors to The Gazette News — whether staff or freelance — are required to comply with our Editorial Policy, our source verification standards, and our right-of-reply procedures before any article carrying their byline is published on thegazette.ng.
Our Standards Apply to Everyone
Every journalist and contributor whose work appears on The Gazette News – regardless of seniority, specialisation, or employment status – is held to the same editorial standards. There are no exceptions based on the prominence of the writer, the sensitivity of the subject, or the commercial value of the story.
Those standards are published in full in our Editorial Policy at https://thegazette.ng/editorial-policy/
If you believe any member of our team has fallen short of those standards in a published article, we want to hear from you. Contact: editor@thegazette.ng
Transparency About Who We Are
The Gazette News publishes the names and professional backgrounds of everyone whose journalism appears on this platform because we believe accountability in journalism begins with the journalist. You should know who is telling you a story. You should be able to evaluate their expertise, their experience, and their track record.
We do not use contributor pseudonyms on editorial content. We do not attribute news reports to vague collective entities like “Staff Reporter” or “Desk” without a named editor taking responsibility. Every byline on The Gazette News is a real person who stands behind what they have written.
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