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Year one impacts spurs AD4TVRadio\’s commitment to CMEDIA project

Following the impacts of some of their activities under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA), the management of AD4TVRadio is committed to doing more as year two activities continue. Jacob Alada, Chairman of the Abuja-based television station, stated this while hosting the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) team led by […]

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Ehikioya Ataman, Monitoring and Evaluation Intern; Emmanuel Mayah, Executive Director of the International Centre for Development Reporting; CMEDIA’s Technical Adviser, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika; Motunrayo Alaka, ED/CEO, WSCIJ, Emmanuel Mercy, Secretary, International Centre for Development Reporting; Eunice Kantoma, Financial Officer, Business Link; Emem Nssien, Finance Officer, CMEDIA project and Solomon Akakhaso, Financial Consultant to International Centre for Development Reporting on CMEDIA project

ICDR decries cyber war on journalists, news media organisations

Emmanuel Mayah, Executive Director of the International Centre for Development Reporting (ICDR) publishers of Satellite Times and Business Leaks, has decried the incessant attacks on media by state and non-state actors in Nigeria. Narrating his organisation’s experience on the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA), Mayah said ICDR came under severe and consistent cyber-attacks while

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Media crucial in advancing effective, inclusive governance – Don-Pedro

Media crucial in advancing effective, inclusive governance – Don-Pedro

The roles of the media in engendering working and inclusive governance were highlighted by Ibiba Don-Pedro, Executive Director/CEO, National Point, during the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) team’s visit to the Port Harcourt-based organisation on Friday, 4 August 2023, as part of activities under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability

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Chido Onumah, the Executive Director of IMCAI addressing the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) team

Ikenga hails CMEDIA’s role in amplifying under-reported voices and issues in the South-East

Ikenga hails CMEDIA’s role in amplifying under-reported voices and issues in the South-East The Ikenga Media and Cultural Awareness Initiative (IMCAI) management, publishers of Ikenga Online, hailed the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA) of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) supported by the MacArthur Foundation for allowing it to

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Year one impacts spurs AD4TVRadio's commitment to CMEDIA project

Year one impacts spurs AD4TVRadio’s commitment to CMEDIA project

Following the impacts of some of their activities under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA), the management of AD4TVRadio is committed to doing more as year two activities continue. Jacob Alada, Chairman of the Abuja-based television station, stated this while hosting the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) team led by

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CMEDIA project: GSAI tasked on long-term sustainability of activities within Abuja Municipal Council

CMEDIA project: GSAI tasked on long-term sustainability of activities within Abuja Municipal Council

Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, Technical Adviser of the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA) project, on Tuesday, 1 August 2023, advised Gender Strategy Advancement International (GSAI) to devise ways for the long-term sustainability of its activities within the Abuja Municipal Council. The Professor of Mass Communication said the organisation, which advocates for women’s rights

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The PR Nigeria and WSCIJ team in a group picture after the visit

Media is a catalyst for improved security through collaboration with security agencies, others – Shuaib

Yushau Shuaib, Editor-in-Chief of PR Nigeria, believes the news media can achieve more as a change agent with collaboration with security agencies, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and other media organisations. Addressing the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) team during a visit to PR Nigeria on Wednesday, 2 August

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Media Rights Agenda condemns attack on journalists by hoodlums in Bayelsa state, calls for urgent police action

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned Wednesday’s brutal assault on several journalists by armed hoodlums in Opu Nembe community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and called on the Nigeria Police Force to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice. On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, six journalists

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Vibrant media panacea for good governance – Professor Darah

Professor of Oral Literature, Folklore and Cultural Science, and the Delta State Chairman of PAN Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF), Godini Darah has advocated the place of a vibrant media in the enthronement of good governance. Darah spoke during a  Niger Delta town hall meeting in Warri, Delta State organised by National Point/Foreward Communications Limited in

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Clearview TV gains momentum for extractive industry accountability under CMEDIA

Clearview TV gains momentum for extractive industry accountability under CMEDIA

Clearview Television has harnessed insights from the ongoing Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA) project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, to generate reports and narratives to hold stakeholders in the extractive industry accountable. Odion Bello, CEO of Clearview TV, shared this during an interactive session in Abuja with the Wole Soyinka Centre

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Covering local issues is vital to good governance – Aloba

Covering local issues is vital to good governance – Aloba

As the 26 Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA) partners of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) move on in their year two activities, Adenike Aloba, Programmes Director, Dataphyte has underscored the importance of reporting local issues and amplifying marginalised voices at the state and local government levels and the

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Daily Nigerian lauds CMEDIA project intervention in Nigerian media space

Daily Nigerian lauds CMEDIA project intervention in Nigerian media space

Ibrahim Ramalan, Editor of Daily Nigerian, has lauded the impact of the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA) project intervention on the Nigerian media landscape. Citing direct gain of the news media organisation on the MacArthur Foundation-funded project initiated by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), to the WSCIJ Team

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Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals trains 25 journalists in S’South, S’East on innovative skills, pitching

Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP) has trained over 25 journalists in the South South and South East on innovative skills, pitching to help their career growth. The Executive Director of AFYMP, Yinka Olaito, said currently, the media and journalism profession is witnessing changes, adding only practitioners who are equipped can function maximally in

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Iduh, appeals to WSCIJ on media sustainability

Iduh, appeals to WSCIJ on media sustainability

Lawrence Iduh, Publisher, National Record, has appealed to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to assist and support media organisations in Nigeria, particularly those operating within the framework of the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (CMEDIA) as the cost of doing journalism increases. According to Iduh, this would help start-ups

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Safer Media Initiative to empower FCT, Nasarawa, Benue journalists as CMEDIA passes mid-way

Safer Media Initiative to empower FCT, Nasarawa, Benue journalists as CMEDIA passes mid-way

Safer Media Initiative (SMI) will organise training for journalists in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nasarawa and Benue State to strengthen grassroots governance and accountability reporting in the North-Central zone of Nigeria as part of its year two activities under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA). The CMEDIA project, funded by the

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CMEDIA: Neptune Prime to partner Nigerian universities, PWDs, NGOs for exceptional impacts

CMEDIA: Neptune Prime to partner Nigerian universities, PWDs, NGOs for exceptional impacts

To achieve better impacts while telling the stories of women and girls and issues in the North East, Neptune Prime will partner with the mass communication and other related departments of some universities in the North-Central and North-East zones of Nigeria in training and mentoring female journalists under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity

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Corporate ‘Delulu’: Companies hide lawsuits from investors, violate IFRS — and regulators turn blind eye

“In other western jurisdictions, you see the [claims and litigation] disclosures running into pages, but here in Nigeria, they are always afraid…,” a staffer at the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria told FIJ when we asked if the council was aware companies were underreporting litigation claims against them. DANIEL OJUKWU uncovered how some Nigerian companies

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UNDERCOVER: One week as a staff of Palmcredit, a loan company where i learnt the art of defamation

In the last five years, loan agencies have spread their talons wide. Offline and online, they are everywhere. Besides their primary function of loan services, they are renowned for the wilful disbursement of their loans to unsuspecting customers and their extreme tactics of defaming them when they don’t repay on time. FIJ’s Opeyemi Lawal applied

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Leaking roofs, inadequate staff, supplies, others threaten healthcare delivery in Federal Capital Territory

Primary healthcare centres (PHCS) are meant to be the first point of call for health service delivery, but are they equipped for this role? Mustapha Usman who visited several PHCS in Kwali and Abaji area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) reports the findings. TWENTY-FIVE years-old Olaniyi Dorcas is one of the many residents

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BREAKING: Newborn baby rescued as Anambra government seals ‘Arrows of God’ after FIJ’s investigation

A newborn baby was among 20 children rescued on Wednesday when the Anambra State government sealed off the premises of Arrows of God orphanage following FIJ’s investigation uncovering how the orphanage had been selling off babies. This development comes one week after ‘Fisayo Soyombo, the founder of FIJ, released an investigation detailing how he paid N2 million

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Wole Soyinka Centre, Albarka FM holds one-day town hall meeting on community development in Kwara

Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism in collaboration with Albarka 89.9 FM, Ganmo, Kwara State on Wednesday 9 August organised a day sensitisation programme on community development in the state. The participants, drawn from various communities and representatives of the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the state were sensitised on ways to attract development and

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