Debo Adedayo ‘Mr Macaroni’, a Nigerian comic skit maker and actor, spoke on the continued attacks of Nigerians and the media by the Nigerian government for making dissenting opinions at the event. Adedayo said the growing culture of attacking dissenting opinions stemmed from a place of arrogance by the ruling class to silence dissenting voices. […]
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Olukunle Akinrinade, Head, Weekend Crime Desk of The Nation, has said that Nigerians resort to the use of social media as an alternative means of expression in a highly militarised civic space. Akinrinade stated this as a panellist at the Civic Space Guard Conference. The 2021 WSCIJ-Nigerian investigative reporter asserted that the state had no
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Benjamin Hundeyin, Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, has called on Nigerians to operate within the ambit of public decency and respect for the rights of others as they demand a more open civic space. Hundeyin argued that the civic space in Nigeria has improved immensely amid calls for protection of fundamental
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Stakeholders at the Civic Space Guard Conference themed ‘Hushed voices and the media’s defence of the civic space’, organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), have advised Nigerians to see the duty of civic space protection as their inalienable rights and a collective responsibility. While declaring the MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Initiative
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Disinformation is the spread of false information intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organisation against a rival. The ongoing face-off between Russia and Ukraine has again thrown up the importance of fact-checking information in public space. The age of citizen journalism where everybody with data, camera phones, and social media platforms can
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The journey of Lami Sadiq, Bureau Chief of Daily Trust Newspaper, Kaduna State, to leadership position was not an easy one. She started as a fresh graduate of Mass Communications from the University of Jos. Being a woman and a Muslim from the conservative Northern part of Nigeria meant she had to work extra hard
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) under its Civic Space Guard project aims to fortify the position of the media as the protector of civic space. This multi-pronged project serves as a channel for conversations, support for reporters who defend the civic space, and engagement with stakeholders towards improving the robustness of the civic
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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
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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
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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.
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Yesterday, Sunday 13 February was another World Radio Day. It was a day to reflect on the importance and impact of radio on the society. The day was proclaimed in 2011 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and raised to International Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Radio is
Radio trust will increase as media rights, professionalism, and citizen literacy improve Read More »
Female Genital Mutilation is one of the prevalent Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) recognised internationally as a violation of human rights, health and the integrity of girls and women. According to a 2021 data of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at least 200 million women and girls in 31 countries around the world are
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The need to protect the civic space recurred as a strong message at the 16th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting presentation event held Thursday, 9 December 2021, at NECA House, Lagos, in honour of 14 investigative reporters, Josiah Ajiboye, popularly known as Josy Ajiboye, veteran cartoonist and painter; and the CLEEN Foundation for their
Josiah Ajiboye, popularly known as Josy Ajiboye, veteran cartoonist and painter, the CLEEN Foundation, and 14 journalists will be honoured at the 16th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting presentation event scheduled for Thursday, 9 December 2021, at NECA House, Lagos, from 4pm to 6pm. Veteran cartoonist and painter, Josy Ajiboye, will
Stakeholders at a five-year status update meeting on the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP) on electricity and basic education held Wednesday, 20 October and Thursday, 21 October 2021 respectively by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in Lagos have been urged to engage with stories as a tool for change while they shared the
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will on Monday, 4th October 2021 open its application portal for interested journalists to apply for the sixteenth edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Journalists from the print, online, photo, cartoon, television and radio genres with stories published between 4th October 2020 and
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
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Protection of children is a cardinal rule of war. Children are however often soft targets during periods of crises globally. The increased trend of attack on schools, kidnapping and abduction of students and teachers in Nigeria’s protracted security challenge is proof. An estimated 112 of the 270 Chibok girls abducted in 2004 are still missing.
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Speakers at the 13th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series held Tuesday, 13th July 2021 in Lagos to commemorate Professor Wole Soyinka’s 87th birthday, have called for community-based education, diversification of the economy, vibrant and sustainable media, equity, justice and inclusion of women for remaking Nigeria. The speakers – Inibehe Effiong, Principal Counsel/Head of chambers, Inibehe
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
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