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Vacancy: Programme Manager for Journalism projects

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A forerunner media-based organisation in the NGO community is currently looking for committed individuals who are goal-oriented and want to build up their career in a high paced, proficient work environment for the position of Programme Manager. Based in Lagos, his responsibilities will include the following; Drive major accountability journalism projects – strategy design, proposal […]

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Nigeria’s Newsletter publisher, others win $10,000 grant

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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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Human rights activists lament continued suppression of freedom of expression

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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 charged to do more investigative stories

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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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Media awards, lecture, others at Lagos NUJ Press Week

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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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Maximise skills acquired at Google training, Lagos NUJ Chair counsels journalists

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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 Samad, nine others make shortlist for global Young Journalist award

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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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2021 African Fact-Checking Awards Winners

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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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