Protection of children is a cardinal rule of war. Children are however often soft targets during periods of crises globally. The increased trend of attack on schools, kidnapping and abduction of students and teachers in Nigeria’s protracted security challenge is proof. An estimated 112 of the 270 Chibok girls abducted in 2004 are still missing. […]
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The legwork of journalists has been greatly restricted this period when offices and businesses are on lockdown to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The good news, however, is that today’s journalists work at the intersection of technology and media. This puts them in a better position to crowdsource localised information for their story,
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At the Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting on Sunday, December 9, 2018, emphasis was placed on the dangers journalists are exposed to while discharging their functions, just as John Momoh, the Chairman of Channels Media Group, owners of Channels Television; Waziri Adio, the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI); and
Momoh, Adio, 12 journalists honoured as stakeholders emphasise threats to journalism Read More »
The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) 2018 will hold 29-31 October 2018 at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will be actively represented at the conference. WSCIJ Coordinator, Motunrayo Alaka; Juliana Francis 2014 WSCIJ-Nigeria Investigative Reporter of the Year and a fellow of WSCIJ Report Women! Female
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Nigeria is the fifth largest producer of Crude Oil in the world but 63rd on the World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index for Emerging Economies in 2018. Since Shell Darcy discovered oil in Oloibiri in 1956, the stories that stem from the oil-producing areas of Nigeria have been those of continual deprivation and degradation —
Oil Exploration in Nigeria: Development turned into Degradation? Read More »
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