Founder/CEO of Afrobeats Intelligence, a weekly newsletter on African music, Joey Akpan has won a $10,000 (no strings attached) Creator Grant offered by Pallet, a New York-based organisation. Akpan is one of the three winners of the $10,000 grant which Pallet says is to accelerate the future it wants to see. “A world where consumers’ […]
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Nigerian journalists won five out of the seven awards at stake at the West Africa Journalists of the fifth edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana on Friday. Samad Uthman of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria who now works for Dataphyte, Nigeria also emerged as joint
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Human rights activists have lamented the continued suppression of freedom of expression and the media in the country despite having a democratic government. They spoke on Tuesday at the Commemorative Lecture and Public Presentation of Remaking Nigeria: 60 Years 60 Voices organised by the Africa Center for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in partnership with
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Female Journalists in Nigeria and Africa have been urged to occupy their space in investigative journalism to ensure that all underreported issues affecting the people are covered. This call was made by news media stakeholders during a panel session titled, ‘Spaces for Women in Investigative Journalism’ at the Africa Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) 2021, which
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The Lagos 2021 Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) press week, which begins on Monday, October 18, will focus on crucial issues of national importance. Speaking Friday at LTV complex in Ikeja, Lagos, Adeleye Ajayi, chairman, Lagos State council who said that his administration assumed office November 26, 2020, amidst a very turbulent election, stated that
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Chairman of the Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Adeleye Ajayi has advised journalists to maximize skills acquired at the training provided by Google in Lagos. Welcoming participants to the second batch of the Google News Lab training organised by the NUJ and Google in Lagos, Ajayi said it is the
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Nigeria’s Investigative multimedia journalist, Uthman Samad is on the shortlist of ten for the 2021 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. His selection along with nine others from over 200 entries from 55 countries by the foundation judging panel was announced on Friday. After the next rounds of judging, when three finalists will be named, the
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Winners from South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal have emerged in the 2021 African Fact-Checking Awards, held in a virtual ceremony on Tuesday 12 October 2021 as part of this year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference. According to a statement by the organisers, Jean le Roux from the Digital Forensic Research Lab’s team in Cape Town, South Africa,
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The former Director and Global Head of Communications and Events Management at Afreximbank, Obi Emekekwue is billed to deliver the 2nd Jacksonites Professional Development Series [JPDS] seminar. Emekekwue’s lecture titled: “Crisis Survival in Today’s Viral World: The Communications Conundrum,” will examine effective communication as a way of navigating and managing the negative impact crisis
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The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has opened its application portal for interested journalists to apply for the sixteenth edition of its annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. According to a press statement by the Executive Director/ CEO of the organisation, Mrs Motunrayo Alaka, Journalists from the print, online, photo, cartoon, television
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