As we mark the 2019 World Press Freedom Day under the theme “Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation”, it is important that we consider how well the media in Nigeria measure up to the standard of informing the public. To this end, we are repurposing some key lessons from the tenth […]
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The Coordinator, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka alongside other media experts have called on journalists and other actors in the media industry to uphold the ethics of the journalism profession. They made the call at an event held on Friday, 3 May 2019, by Civic Media Lab in conjunction with the
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There has been incessant outcry by Nigerians against brutality from men of the security forces. A few of those cases, which must be interrogated if the nation must move forward, are presented below. Death in NSCDC custody: Human Rights Lawyer, Ogele drags NSCDC to court Human rights lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele, has dragged Nigeria Security and
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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it has arrested “three notorious persons” involved in the kidnap of Friday Okeregbe, the Channels Television reporter, who covers the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Okeregbe was kidnapped on March 22 along Games Village in Abuja while on his way from his mechanic’s workshop.
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Experts have urged media managers to create an enabling environment for women in the newsroom. The call was made at the last leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to select media houses in Lagos. The visit which took place as a chat on gender policy and practices
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The Coordinator of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka, has been selected for the prestigious John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University in California, United States. Mrs Alaka is one of seven fellows from Africa, Europe and South America selected into the 2019- 2020 class of the programme, starting September
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With nearly half of the world’s population, women and girls are daily faced with a myriad of issues that hampers advancement and development of several nations especially in Africa. Figures from the human development index provides insights that countries that pay attention to issues affecting the female gender are ranked at the top and vice
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On the night of April 14, 2014, two hundred and seventy-six (276) female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, an extremist terrorist organisation based in north-eastern Nigeria. Sunday, April 14th 2019 marks 5 years since
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Female journalists and media managers have been challenged to mainstream gender in the newsroom. The challenge came at the second leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to some media houses in Abuja as part of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP). The visit which took
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Victim profiling is a bane of Nigerian security, where ordinary citizens get brandished and harassed at will. The role of the law enforcement agencies is to ensure that adequate security is provided for, and that laws and orders are strictly adhered to by members of the public. However, it has been a sad turn of
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Armed men thought to be state agents arrested Jones Abiri, a Nigerian journalist, previously detained for more than two years, at a meeting with colleagues on Saturday, witnesses and watchdog groups told AFP.Two DSS (State Security Service) vehicles stormed the office of the Bayelsa Federated Newspaper Publishers’ Association in Yenagoa in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state
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Journalists and media managers at Voice of Nigeria (VON) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Lagos Operations, have been charged to ensure gender balance in their newsrooms. The charge was made at the house-to-house visit made by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to the media houses on Thursday, 4 April 2019.
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A free press contributes to the right of freedom of expression, thought and conscience, strengthens the responsiveness and accountability of governments to all citizens, and provides a platform and channel of political expression for a multiplicity of groups and interests. So, what are the crucial roles akin to an independent press and its impact? The
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It was an evening of fun at the maiden ‘Time-out with Journalists’ held on Thursday, 28th March 2019 at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) office in Ikeja, Lagos, as journalists across media platforms cast spotlight on the ethics of the journalism profession. Adeolu Adekola, WSCIJ Senior Programme Officer, explained that the event
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Friends and associates of the late Professor Pius Adesanmi organised a candlelight event at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota in Lagos, on Saturday, 17 March 2019 to memorialise and celebrate his life and ideals. The late Professor Pius Adesanmi was among the 157 passengers and crew members aboard the Ethiopian aircraft flight ET302/10 (Addis Abba
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Human rights are embedded in our laws to keep humans from living in a barbaric and animalistic way, where the strong survive, and the weak are eliminated. However, the issue of human rights abuses and violations is prevailing in many societal structures in Nigeria. Painfully, most of the human rights cases go unreported. Below are
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Nigeria is one of the countries where murderers of journalists get away without the authorities ever bringing them to justice. Nigeria was ranked 13 out of 14 countries in the 2018 Global Impunity Index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), making it the sixth time that Nigeria is featured on the index since
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The 2019 general elections have been full of intrigues. Nigerians witnessed the burning of INEC offices in some locations, the last minute postponement due to logistical challenges, pockets of violence, vote buying and selling as well as inconclusive elections in 6 states namely Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto. The Rivers State elections is
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MrJa’farJa’far, an investigative journalist and a publisher of Daily Nigeria published a video clips last year which allegedly showed Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State receiving bribes. The video clipssparked outcry by members of the public in Nigeria and citizens took to social media to call on the appropriate agencies in investigating the allegations. Ja’far
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism commends journalists and media houses that providedmedia coverage of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria which held on February 23, 2019. The media no doubt played a crucial role inexposing some salient challenges in the electoral processthereby fostering democratic norms in the society. Cases of electoral
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