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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Nineteen female journalists were, on Tuesday, 5 February 2019, confirmed as fellows at the 2018 edition of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) awards ceremony organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism at L’eola Hotel, Maryland, Lagos. The fellows, who were selected from 199 applications received from nine countries of the
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The Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) award event, the closing ceremony for the 2018 fellowship is scheduled for Tuesday, 5 February 2019. At the event, certificates would be given to the fellows and prizes will also be given to the best three fellows of the Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme. Commencing in June 2017,
The invasion of Media Trust’s (publishers of Daily Trust Newspaper) head office and two of its regional offices by armed soldiers on the 6th of January may have come and gone, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth of media practitioners and citizens. Of more grave concern is the fact that the clampdown
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Ahmed Hussein, who worked closely with ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to expose the rot in Ghana football in an investigative masterpiece dubbed #Number12, was killed on Wednesday, 16 January, by unknown gunmen while driving home. His killing came months after the Assin Central lawmaker, Ken Agyapong, splashed his pictures on TV, calling for
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On December 10, 1948, 70 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was announced by the United Nations General Assembly at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. On this anniversary, the international literature festival berlin (ilb) called upon individuals, institutions, universities, schools, and media who value freedom of the press and human rights to
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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A group of civil society organisations made up of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), BudgIT Civic Hive and Gavel, has condemned the parade of suspects by the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the country on Sunday, 9 December 2018 at the 13th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. The
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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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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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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, 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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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 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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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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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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