The resilience of truth which speakers said cannot die despite unprecedented rise in global misinformation and disinformation was the focus at the 16th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series at the Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Centre, Lagos. The event with keynote address by Biodun Jeyifo, Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University and of Comparative […]
Theme: The Death of Truth? Realism, Literature and Journalism in an Age of Disinformation: A Symposium in Honour of Wọle Ṣoyinka Synopsis Widespread access to information and computer technologies has brought tremendous freedoms to millions of people across the world. In addition to digital technology and its easy embrace of proliferating personalisable platforms, these freedoms
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Speakers at the 13th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series held Tuesday, 13th July 2021 in Lagos to commemorate Professor Wole Soyinka’s 87th birthday, have called for community-based education, diversification of the economy, vibrant and sustainable media, equity, justice and inclusion of women for remaking Nigeria. The speakers – Inibehe Effiong, Principal Counsel/Head of chambers, Inibehe
Oluseun Onigbinde, Co-Founder and Director of BudgIT Foundation, has championed the need for data on the identity of citizens in order to plan and allocate national resources well. The civic technology expert stated this on Monday, 13 July 2020 at the 12th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre Investigative
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A former Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust Newspaper, Mannir Dan-Ali, has condemned what he described as the ‘capture of the Nigerian media by public relations machineries’ of both the government and the big companies. He therefore called on the media to do more stories with available data. Dan-Ali, who currently serves on the board of the
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In assessing the status of the current data landscape in Nigeria, Yemi Kale, Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, has stated there is room for improvement. He made this call during a panel discussion at the 12th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held virtually on Monday, 13
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The need to coordinate the national statistical system, especially for the production of reliable and high quality data, was stressed by Oluwayemisi Alaba, Senior Lecturer, Statistics Department, University of Ibadan during the 12th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held July 13, 2020. During her presentation on the ‘Theories and Realities that Support Credible and
Kole Shettima, Director of the Africa Office for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, has urged the media in Nigeria to think of itself as reliable sources of data that is consciously and professionally collected as a revenue channel to aid sustainability. He made this call on Monday July 13, 2020 at the
The usefulness of data for effective policy making, meaningful resource allocation and efficient public service delivery was the highlight of the 12th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series that held virtually on Monday, 13 July 2020. Speakers at the event organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to mark Professor Wole Soyinka’s 86th
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The 12th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series is set to hold as a webinar on Monday, 13 July 2020, from 10am to 12noon West Africa Time (WAT). The event which will be held virtually for the first time, will discuss the theme—Data, media and national development. Confirmed speakers are Oluwayemisi
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Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has admitted human interference in the process of elections in Nigeria, at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. He called for a rethink of the process. Osaze-Uzzi, who contributed as
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Rotimi Sankore, Editorial Board Chair, Nigeria Info Radio Group, has charged the media in Nigeria to report based on data and make use of journalism to solve the problems in the country. He made the call at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan,
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Obiageli Ezekwesili, Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) and keynote speaker at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, have faulted Nigeria’s democracy and called for rethink of it. Speaking at the lecture held in commemoration of the 85th birthday
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The need to include more women in governance in Nigeria, was raised by Amina Salihu, Senior Programme Officer, MacArthur Foundation, at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. Salihu, who was a panellist at the lecture lamented the non-inclusive state of political system
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Contrary to sentiments that expensive and sophisticated technology is required for elections, Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative, has argued that there are affordable and very effective alternatives that can be deployed for elections in the country. He made this counter claim at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13
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Obiageli Ezekwesili, Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) along with other speakers at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, have called on Nigerians to insist on values in determining those who become their leaders and how the polity is
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Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Amina Salihu, Senior Programme Officer, MacArthur Foundation; Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative; and Rotimi Sankore, Chair, Editorial Board, Nigeria Info Radio Group, will be discussants for the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series and 85th birthday anniversary celebration of Wole Soyinka,
Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) and Co-Founder of #BringBackOurGirls Movement, will give the keynote address on the theme, ‘Rethinking credible elections, accountable democracy and good governance in Nigeria’, at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series scheduled to hold on Saturday, 13 July 2019, by 10am, at
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Speaking at the tenth Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held in Lagos on Friday 13 July in commemoration of the 84th birthday of Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature, Ibrahim Gambari, former Minister for External Affairs and erstwhile United Nations Under-Secretary General has recommended good governance and finding common grounds for ending
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Mnguember Vicky-Sylvester, Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Abuja, has faulted the lax way security agents are responding to conflicts in the country and government’s moves to create cattle ranches across the country, at the tenth Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held in Lagos on Friday 13 July, in commemoration
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