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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Professor Pat Utomi has expressed displeasure over the conspiracy of the forces controlling the Nigerian state to suppress history and facts about the country for selfish political reasons. Utomi who featured as the Keynote Speaker at the second edition of the Ikengaonline Town Hall meeting Thursday night, condemned the deliberate attempts by those he […]

In a world where almost every information is shrouded by an alarming level of internet fakery, YERWA EXPRESS NEWS trained and equipped a group of upcoming career journalists with the skills to be able to spot and bust them. The two-day training was funded by MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

By Idris Abubakar Stallion Times Media Services trained 40 journalists on disability reporting in the media on Thursday in Kano. The event was conducted under the ‘Get Involved, Dialogue and Improve (G-RIP) Project’ in collaboration with the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA)

On Monday, 29 August 2022, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) embarked on a two-day media-to-media workshop under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity and Accountability (CMEDIA) project for representatives of media organisations and advocacy organisations across Nigeria. Two reporters each from HumAngle, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), the Cable,

Reporters at a pitch meeting held by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Thursday, 11 August 2022 were tasked to focus on reporting government activities at the sub-national levels. The meeting heralded a six-week mentoring for the 15 reporters under WSCIJ’s Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion and Accountability (CMEDIA) project supported by the MacArthur Foundation.

By Bashir Bello, KANO An expert and Social Development worker in Kano State, Richard Musa has told members of the Kano State House Assembly that the amended Persons With Disability, PWD bill when passed into law, the state stands a better chance to stamp out street begging in Kano and the North. Musa, the Advocacy

The Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusivity, and Accountability (The Collaborative Media Project) is designed as a multi-level intervention for media independence and government accountability, initiated by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJ) and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The project seeks to strengthen the media’s independence and presence, especially at state and

By Progress Godfrey, Abuja Gender Strategy Advancement International, GSAI, has engaged the media to promote women’s economic inclusion and gender accountability in governance The 2-day collaborative media training which started on Thursday was supported by MacArthur Foundation and partnered by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. According to a baseline report on Women’s political participation