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. […]
Obiageli Ezekwesili, Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) along with other speakers at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, held on Saturday, 13 July 2019 at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, have called on Nigerians to insist on values in determining those who become their leaders and how the polity is
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Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Amina Salihu, Senior Programme Officer, MacArthur Foundation; Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative; and Rotimi Sankore, Chair, Editorial Board, Nigeria Info Radio Group, will be discussants for the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series and 85th birthday anniversary celebration of Wole Soyinka,
Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) and Co-Founder of #BringBackOurGirls Movement, will give the keynote address on the theme, ‘Rethinking credible elections, accountable democracy and good governance in Nigeria’, at the 11th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series scheduled to hold on Saturday, 13 July 2019, by 10am, at
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The Coordinator, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka alongside other media experts have called on journalists and other actors in the media industry to uphold the ethics of the journalism profession. They made the call at an event held on Friday, 3 May 2019, by Civic Media Lab in conjunction with the
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Experts have urged media managers to create an enabling environment for women in the newsroom. The call was made at the last leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to select media houses in Lagos. The visit which took place as a chat on gender policy and practices
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The Coordinator of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka, has been selected for the prestigious John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University in California, United States. Mrs Alaka is one of seven fellows from Africa, Europe and South America selected into the 2019- 2020 class of the programme, starting September
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Female journalists and media managers have been challenged to mainstream gender in the newsroom. The challenge came at the second leg of the house-to-house visit by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to some media houses in Abuja as part of the Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP). The visit which took
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Journalists and media managers at Voice of Nigeria (VON) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Lagos Operations, have been charged to ensure gender balance in their newsrooms. The charge was made at the house-to-house visit made by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to the media houses on Thursday, 4 April 2019.
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It was an evening of fun at the maiden ‘Time-out with Journalists’ held on Thursday, 28th March 2019 at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) office in Ikeja, Lagos, as journalists across media platforms cast spotlight on the ethics of the journalism profession. Adeolu Adekola, WSCIJ Senior Programme Officer, explained that the event
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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
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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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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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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 12 distinguished journalists will be honoured at the award presentation event of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting which will hold at the main hall of NECA
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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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