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2018 Human Rights Day: Professor Wole Soyinka decries rising cases of stolen identities

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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday in Lagos decried the rising cases of stolen human identities, highlighting the allegation of President Muhammadu Buhari being cloned and various Facebook impersonations including himself. He was speaking at the Lagos event was the Worldwide reading for Freedom of the Press and in Memory of Jamal Khashoggi in […]

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Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, 2018 WSCIJ-Nigerian Investigative Journalists of the Year (left) receiving his award from Femi Falana, human rights lawyer during the 13th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting at NECA House, Alausa in Lagos.

Momoh, Adio, 12 journalists honoured as stakeholders emphasise threats to journalism

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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

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WSCIJ welcomes eight student interns

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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 welcomed eight undergraduates from three Nigerian universities for a two-month internship programme. The interns include Elizabeth Lawal from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria; Usman Bello Balarabe, Kabiru Ado and Hafsat Bello Muhammad from Bayero University Kano (BUK); Solomon Oladipupo, Adeboye Munirat, Ajagunna

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U.S Consulate Public Affairs chief pays visit to WSCIJ

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The new Public Affairs Officer at the United States Consulate General Lagos, Russell Brooks, paid a courtesy visit to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) office in Lagos on Tuesday, 18 September 2018. During the visit, Russell interacted with the Coordinator and the WSCIJ team, discussing WSCIJ’s media capacity development programmes and the

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Report Women Network inaugurated, moves to change the face of leadership in media

Report Women Network inaugurated, moves to change the face of leadership in media

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Report Women Network, the alumni body of the Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) Fellowship programme has been inaugurated. The fourteen fellows produced in the 2017 edition of the initiative, faculty members and partners, on Friday, 5 October 2018, established the body. According to the 2017 Fellows, the Report Women Networkwould help sustain the

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Media professionals engage students on investigative journalism

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As part of the Pro-Engage Campus edition of the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP), the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism engaged students of Mass Communication from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Bayero University Kano (BUK) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zariaon investigating basic education and electricity on September 11th and 13th respectively. The Regulators’ Monitoring

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Female journalists set for leadership in the media

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Female reporters were equipped to take leadership roles in the newsroom, at the 2018 edition of the Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) held from Monday, 1st October to Thursday, 4th October 2018 in Lagos. The twenty female journalists for 2018were painstakingly selected from one hundred and ninety-nine applications receivedfor the programmefrom nine countries,

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Female journalists meet to change the gender narratives in the extractives

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On Friday, 7 September 2018, female journalists with experience and interest in the Nigerian extractive sector met at Shoregate Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, at a dialogue session organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in partnership with the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), to discuss how to give voice to women in the

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18 journalists trained on visual storytelling

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No fewer than eighteen photojournalists were trained on the art of visual storytelling at a workshop organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on the 25th and 26th September in Lagos.The two-day training, which initiated a six-week mentoring programme for the journalists, is an activity under the Regulatory Monitoring Programme (REMOP) implemented

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African Investigative Journalism Conference 2018

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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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Good governance, common grounds critical to ‘sheathing the drawn daggers’— Gambari

Good governance, common grounds critical to ‘sheathing the drawn daggers’— Gambari

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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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Don decries government response to conflicts, says cattle ranches unnecessary

Don decries government response to conflicts, says cattle ranches unnecessary

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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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Understand conflict or set Nigeria ablaze, media veteran warns media

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Eugenia Abu, former Executive Director of Programmes, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) has warned the media in Nigeria to be wary of what they publish to avoid sparking more conflicts in the country. She made the warning call at the tenth Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held in Lagos on Friday 13 July, in commemoration

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Pate blames violence in the Northeast, middle belt on collapse of Local Government system, radio system

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Umaru Pate, Pioneer Dean, Faculty of Communication, Bayero University, Kano blamed the Boko Haram conflict and other conflicts in the north-eastern part of the country on the collapse of the local government system and the radio system in the country. Pate made this observation while discussing at the tenth Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series

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Beware of war, Pate tells journalists

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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, Umaru Pate, Pioneer Dean, Faculty of Communication, Bayero University, Kano, has told journalists to be wary of preparing the country for war through

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Abbah tasks government on conflict management

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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, Joe Abah, Nigeria Country Director, DAI Global, has called on government to address the various conflicts in the country. Abah, who was Director-General of

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Good governance, common grounds critical to ‘sheathing the drawn daggers’— Gambari

Gambari charges media on investigative reporting of conflict

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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 charged the Nigerian media to embark on ruthless investigative reporting in

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Gambari calls for an end to “the audacity of hypocrisy” of Nigerian leaders to tackle conflicts

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Ibrahim Gambari, former Minister for External Affairs and erstwhile United Nations Under-Secretary General, has called for an end to what he calls, “the audacity of hypocrisy” of the Nigerian ruling class. The Nigerian scholar and diplomat, made this call at the tenth anniversary of the Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series held in Lagos on

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Oil Exploration in Nigeria: Development turned into Degradation?

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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 —

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