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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 […]

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

WikkiTimes, an investigative platform based in Bauchi State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vision FM In Gombe State on accountability journalism and critical reporting. In the course of the partnership, WikkiTimes will also train Vision FM staff on investigative journalism and critical reporting. The partnership which borders on accountability journalism will also

In 2022, the foundation through funding supports from MacArthur Foundation and Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) launched a media training for early-career media and communications students across several tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This training which will further promote the practice of journalism and expose these young minds to the business aspect of the

A Bauchi-based multi-media services organization, Xchange Hama Media Services has organized a two-day training workshop for practising and citizen journalists on investigative journalism and development communication. The workshop which was held in Bauchi was supported by Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and had 32 participants drawn from 10 LGAs of the state. The

By Murtala Adewale, Kano The rampant cases of intimidation, harassment, and assault of journalists in the cause of carrying out investigative and other routine reports are fast reaching their height if not worsened in Nigeria, considering the large population of working journalists who report daily to their beat without safety provisions. Speaking on the significance

By Kehinde Ayanboade The Executive Director, Media Career NG, Mr. Lekan Otufodurin has reeled out the need for journalists to hold strictly to the ethical provision in the course of carrying out their profession. Otufodurin who was a former editor of The Nation Newspaper made this call while training young journalists as a facilitator in

By Kehinde Ayanboade In a bid to develop new media giants in the digital world of multimedia journalism, a Lecturer from the University of Lagos, Dr Suraj Olunifesi has reeled out the importance of data and information management, literacy and manipulation in the sustainable practice of 21st-century journalism. Olunifesi maintains that data, facts and figures

By Sa’adatu MAINA, Damaturu Neptune Network Nigeria Ltd, in conjunction with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), has opened its North-East zonal office in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital for its subsidiary media outlet, Neptune Prime. The zonal office which is located on the first floor, opposite Eco Bank, Maiduguri Road, Damaturu, Yobe

By Kayode Adegboyega Taiwo Satellite Times online newspaper last week opened a new chapter in corruption reporting in Nigeria by inducting five mid-level private sector practitioners into newsroom freelance reporting. The five – three males and two females – were part of a total of 19 journalists that participated in a 2-day media training workshop

Albarka FM has organized a one-day sensitization workshop on how to enhance media action for accountability and good governance for Journalists in Kwara state. The one-day sensitization programme was organized in conjunction with Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative journalism and with support from the Macarthur Foundation. The guest lecturer, Dr Sa’udat Sallah AbdulBaqi, a lecturer