Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Friday called on Federal and State Governments as well as law enforcement and security agencies to take adequate measures to protect journalists and other media workers during this weekend’s off-cycle elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, saying their role in providing information about the electoral process is critical in […]
The media industry has become an industry for all. Technology makes this easy but the real professionals are few. There are basic skills that set professionals apart. In many cases, the quality of story and report produced always betray the quacks from those who understand that there are ethics and professional demand for every impactful
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When electric poles were first erected in Ajiyawa community four years ago, residents thought their years of blackouts were about to end. Night raids are what bandits use as cover to attack the community, and the local clinic was nearly out of service due to a power cut, so the possibility of having electricity supply
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) organised a two-day capacity building on safety and security for journalists from the 26 media organisations under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA) project. The training designed to improve the overall cyber safety, digital security and personal safety of journalists became necessary amid
This vox-pop sampled people’s opinion on plans of the Nigerian Labour Congress to embark on a nationwide trike over the beating of its president, Joe Ajaero in Imo state.
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The 2023 Inequalities Reporting Fellowship of the Africa Centre for Development Journalism (ACDJ) has commenced with a 2-day training workshop held on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 November 2023 with 12 journalists participating. The entire fellowship entails the two-day training, mentorship and implementation of a special fellowship report on a range of inequality themes having received
One morning in December 2022, Dauda Umaru’s two children, Umaru and Habibu, suddenly woke up with fever and severe headache. They couldn’t even turn their necks around. In Dungundun, Umaru’s community in Sule-Tankarkar local government area in Jigawa State, there is no hospital. So, he rushed them to the Danladi Basic Health Clinic, located in
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The claim by the host of Brekete family radio programme, Ahmed Isah aka ‘Ordinary President’, that the Human Papilloma Virus, HPV, vaccine is harmful and targeted at depopulation lacks evidence and is misleading, a PRNigeria fact-check has discovered. The Ordinary President, in a video clip during a live broadcast of his popular Brekete family programme
This state of media independence survey report was compiled by Safer-Media Initiative. The report delved into unsolved cases of murdered journalists in Nigeria.
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on President Bola Tinubu to make a clear commitment to ensure the safety of journalists in Nigeria and bring an end to impunity for crimes against journalists by ensuring that Government officials and non-state actors who attack journalists are appropriately punished in accordance with the law. MRA’s Executive Director,
The 2023 MacArthur Foundation Annual Grantees meeting, which was held on Tuesday, 31 October 2023 in Abuja will remain indelible in the minds of participants for a long time. The presence of the Foundation’s President, Professor John Palfrey, and his team from Chicago was a clear demonstration of the commitment of the commitment to realising
The executive director of Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo, highlighted the grave issue of regulatory agencies failing to fulfill their responsibilities, asserting that this negligence is a major contributor to Nigeria’s prevailing problems. He made this known at a workshop, centered around utilising the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for investigative reporting in Nigeria, held
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Nigerian journalists in the South-West of the country on Tuesday embark on a 2-day training workshop on using the Freedom of Information Act for Investigative reporting, training organized by Media Right Agenda, held in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital. Penpushing reports that the plenary session includes a pre-workshop test, statement of workshop objectives, overview of workshop
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Nigerian women have condemned the tendency for the news media to paint the womenfolk in bad light, at the slightest opportunity. The women who spoke to PRNigeria and Economic Confidential teams specifically described as unfair a recycled false report which described Nigerian women as the most unfaithful in the world. The report which has now
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This Leaves and Worms series reveals the challenges being faced by original inhabitants of Abuja in accessing quality education. This report is produced with support from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusivity and Accountability project (CMEDIA) funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
For over a year, residents of Bosuwa town in Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa State have continued to bear the brunt of a midnight inferno caused by sudden power surge. Residents told PRNigeria that the tragedy could have been averted if the Kano Electric Distribution Company (KEDCO) listened to their complaints on the
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This Leaves and Worms series explores the impact of parents on the current increase of private schools in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja. This report is produced with support from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusivity and Accountability project (CMEDIA) funded by the
Journalists across Northern Nigeria have pledged to monitor the compliance of public institutions in carrying out their duties imposed on them by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This is coming after Media Rights Agenda (MRA), completed a two-day workshop for journalists on “Using the Freedom of Information Act for Investigative Reporting” held from Thursday,
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In 2018, the Kano Ministry of Works, Housing, and Transport, currently known as the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, awarded the sum of N3 billion for constituency projects in 44 local government areas to construct primary school classrooms without an office, Islamiyya classrooms, an empowerment program, and the supply of fertilisers to farmers. In the
The Kano State government has set aside N6bn to pay gratuities to over 5,500 retired civil servants in the state. Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf made the disclosure during a press briefing with newsmen on Saturday in Kano. Stallion Times reports that Governor Yusuf on assumption of office expressed displeasure over the backlog of unpaid gratuities
Journalists at the two days workshop organised by Media Rights Agenda with support from the MacArthur Foundation through the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA) Project, have bemoaned poor usage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. They identified variety of challenges including
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