Press release

No fewer than fifteen journalists took part in an investigative story pitch meeting held by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Thursday, 20th June 2019, at Amber Residence, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos. The meeting was organised for journalists whose investigative story pitches to the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP) of the WSCIJ were successful.

Friends and associates of the late Professor Pius Adesanmi organised a candlelight event at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota in Lagos, on Saturday, 17 March 2019 to memorialise and celebrate his life and ideals. The late Professor Pius Adesanmi was among the 157 passengers and crew members aboard the Ethiopian aircraft flight ET302/10 (Addis Abba

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

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

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