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Image Merchants Promotions Limited (IMPR), the publishers of PRNigeria, commenced training of journalists covering security and the economy based in Abuja, as part of the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion and Accountability project powered by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). IMPR is one of the 26 media organisations under the collaborative

The Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion, and Accountability project (C-Media or The Collaborative Media Project), a three-year programme supported by the MacArthur Foundation works with 26 select organisations to execute investigative stories at the grassroots level, unmask institutional and regulatory failures at the sub-national levels in Nigeria and the private sectors, and pay attention

The saying, the reward for good work is more work, resonates with us at the WSCIJ. Towards the end of a busy 2021, we added three new projects to our portfolio—The Collaborative Media Engagement for Development Inclusion and Accountability (The Collaborative Media project), Report Women! News and Newsroom Engagement and the Civic Space Guard project.

Representatives of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) Nigeria visited the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) at its office in Lagos, on Wednesday, 22 September 2021. The visit was to discuss progress on the OSIWA-supported 2021 Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) which is geared at creating a community of

The 2021 Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series will feature eight panellists to engage the theme – ‘Remaking Nigeria: Towards a secure and viable union’ on Tuesday, 13 July at NECA Hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja Lagos, by 1.00pm (WAT), with Femi Falana (SAN), human rights activist, as the chairperson and Tolulope Adeleru-Balogun, Head Presentation, News Central

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has initiated a collaborative story project among four media houses and civil society partners to interrogate the salient issue of safety of students in Nigerian schools as part of the activities under its Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP). The collaborative effort led by the WSCIJ commenced with a

To contribute to efforts in bringing to the fore critical issues in the electricity sector in Nigeria, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has partnered some media and civil society organisations. A workshop was held in Lagos on Wednesday, 2nd and Thursday, 3rd June 2021 to commence the collaborative project. The media organisations

Twelve more reporters have been commissioned by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) following a virtual training held Thursday, 20 May 2021 as part of the Free to share initiative of the organisation. In his opening remarks, Adeolu Adekola, WSCIJ’s Senior Programme Officer, gave a recap of the progress made on the project.

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is celebrating Nigerian journalists for promoting transparency, holding powers to account and ensuring the dissemination of the right information to the public through their work. Like other professions, journalism is not an easy one and comes with its own share of challenges. From killings, to torture, exile,

Participants at a one-day visual storytelling immersion training for cartoonists and photojournalists organised virtually by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under its ‘Free to share’ initiative on Wednesday, 14th April 2021 have been charged to chronicle events around COVID-19 through visual storytelling and also to break free from event-based reporting of the