By Kaigama Mustapha Stakeholders on the rehabilitation of the Boko Haram insurgency ravaged Lake Chad region of North Eastern Nigeria have advocated for journalists and Civil Society Organisations, to create synergy between them in coming up with solutions to the challenges of the area. Such panacea of community based advocacy on development they stressed should […]
Afritel Multimedia Limited, Albarka FM, has today commenced three days of training for media personnel and social media influencers in Kwara on good governance and accountability. The training at the instance of Albarka FM in conjunction with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and MacArthur Foundation was meant to equip journalists on good governance and
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The Foundation For Investigative Journalism and Social Justice (FIJ) has organised a one-day training for early-career journalists on the use of journalism to drive social justice in Nigeria. The programme, titled ‘Journalism for Social Justice’, took place in Lagos on Thursday with support from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and the MacArthur Foundation.
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By Umar Bakari Welcoming participants at the opening day of the programme on Wednesday, the President and Founder of Kanempress Digital Hub, Ibrahim Mustapha, explained that the participants were selected based on certain criteria and considerations. According to him, the purpose of the workshop was to sensitize communities of the Lake Chad region of Borno
By Adejumo Kabir Roland Bayode is a senior mass communications major at the Adekunle Ajasin University, in Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria. Though he started practicing journalism in his first year, it wasn’t until recently that he earned bylines with media outlets beyond school blogs. Today, Bayode is an associate editor for Nigeria Grassroot News, an
The Kwara State Government has said low percentage of residents have access to primary healthcare in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Rasaki, disclosed this during a one-day town hall meeting on primary healthcare delivery in the North West/North Central zones in Nigeria held in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The event was organized
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Health stakeholders have advocated the generation of employment for Primary Health Centres (PHCs) within the community to address shortages of manpower in rural areas. The stakeholders also called for financially effective local government administration for functional Primary Health Centres. These were part of resolutions at a town hall meeting organized by Fridabs Solacebase Communications in
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Fridabs Solacebase Communications, publishers of Solacebase online newspaper has called on the Jigawa State Government to embolden efforts in addressing myriads of health care challenges in the state. The Publisher of Solacebase Abdullateef Abubakar Jos made the plea at a Town Hall Meeting organized by the medium, aimed at improving the health care system in
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By Peace Oladipo Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP), a non-governmental organisation, has trained 90 students from various universities on journalism and media practice. It is a non-profit initiative established to raise the standard of media practice in Africa with a focus on media skill development, democracy, good governance and accountability. The organisation also
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WikkiTimes, a Bauchi-based online media outlet on Thursday organized a one-day training for 20 bloggers and broadcast journalists across different media organizations on Data, Investigative and the use of Open Source Intelligence Methods of investigation to unravel corruption and hold power to account. The training, held at the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ Secretariat in Bauchi, had
By Amos Aar AS part of their efforts to promote independent journalism in order to strengthen watchdog reporting on accountability, a non-governmental organisation, Safer-Media Initiative (SMI), has organised a 2-day capacity building workshop for journalists in Benue State. The workshop which held in Makurdi, the state capital, from July 13-14, 2022 under the theme; “Strengthening
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By Deborah Ogunmola The Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP), a media skills/career development organisation trained about 50 campus journalists and mass communication students from South-South and South-East regions on a fully funded media workshop, strongly supported by MacArthur Foundation and Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). The training which started on Monday,
In this report, WikkiTimes’ YAKUBU MOHAMMED revealed that in its desperate move to siphon money, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing not only failed to execute the work but paid contractors that have nothing to do with road constructions; some of them are oil companies. The federal government has spent about N1bn in repair
By Janet Samuel In a bid to improve the investigative capacity of journalist, Safer Media Initiative(SMI) has urged Journalist to uncover the untold stories within the grassroots level The Executive Director/CEO of SMI, Peter Iorter, gave the advice in a 2 day capacity building workshop on investigative journalism organized by SMI in collaboration with the
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The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), a subsidiary of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has taken over failed sections of the Bauchi-Gombe road which were hitherto abandoned as exposed in WikkiTimes’ recent investigation. This paper in a detailed investigation unearthed how millions of naira were wasted on emergency repairs and rehabilitation of the
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), Gombe State chapter, says it will engage necessary authorities to prosecute some health workers exposed in WikkiTimes’ recent Investigation. The investigation exposed how health workers in some facilities continue to subvert the system by issuing fake genotype certificates in exchange for financial gratification. The story exposed
WikkiTimes reporter spent several weeks investigating fake genotype certificates to pass medical assessments that can be obtained in Gombe State. This report exposes how hospital laboratories issue fake genotype certificates for a token, sometimes even free. A married couple gave birth to a sickle cell child, this generated confusion as it’s believed that none of
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja A 2-day training on investigative journalism has ended in Abuja with a call on Journalists to be intentional in their nose for news. The Training put together by the Safer-Media Initiative, under the collaboration of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and the MacArthur Foundation was an opportunity for select
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BY USMAN MOHAMMED, FATI MUSA MARTE & ABDULKADIR M. LAWAN Internally displaced persons, IDPs, across the North East have fashioned out a criminal commercial enterprise at the expense of their kids to enrich themselves. They help to ‘make’ or ‘keep’ their kids, aged 0 to 5, malnourished, in order to profit from their condition. An
By Amos Aar BARELY two weeks after National Record published Part 1 of its investigative report on the poor condition of secondary schools in Benue State, the State Teaching Service Board (TSB) has advertised for the recruitment of 1,500 teachers for public secondary schools across the state. Parts 2 and 3, as well as photo
In 2011, Lanle Travel & Tour, a private company, milked millions of naira from some intended pilgrims in Niger State, with the promise of airlifting them to the Holy Land, Saudi Arabia. For unclear reasons, they were not airlifted after spending weeks in Shiroro Hotel and Hajj Camp in Minna, the capital of Niger State.