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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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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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
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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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) held an editors’ roundtable on Friday 4 May 2018 in Lagos to boost the reportage of the oil and gas sector under its Media for Oil Reform (MFOR) implemented with support from the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). The event drew editors and publishers from 14 media
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Adekunle Yusuf of The Nation Newspaper has emerged the Investigative Journalist of the year at the 12th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting just as Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, Edetaen Ojo, the Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda,as well as nine other outstanding journalists were honoured. The event which was
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, Executive Secretary Universal Basic Education, Hamid Bobboyi and United Nations, Humanitarian Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Edward Kallon, along with other speakers, at the 2017 Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series and launch of the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP), held in Abuja yesterday, agree that the Nigerian child is at a disadvantage,
Ahead of the 2017 Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series planned to examine the nexus between basic education and electricity on Thursday 13 July at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, participants at a two-day stakeholders meeting held in Lagos on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 July, for the Regulators’ Monitoring Programme (REMOP) for basic education and
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