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2024 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting winners

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Winners have emerged for various award categories from the final shortlists of the 2024(19th) Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. There was however no overall Investigative Reporter of The Year winner as the award judges complained of the declining quality of investigative reports. Commended works, runners-up and some winners of the six categories of the […]

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FRLP: Empowering female journalists for leadership roles

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Noah Aderoju of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos writes on the empowerment of female journalists through a leadership programme by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ).   Before participating in the 2021 Female Reporters Leadership Programme, (FRLP) organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Osaruonamen Ibizugbe, formerly of

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Making IDPs dream of moving out of camps possible

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Chika Mefor writes on a skills-acquisition project training for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to run small businesses and live outside the displacement camp.   The life of an average Internally Displaced Person (IDP) in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city is characterized by acute poverty and lack. A Protection Monitoring Report on IDP Sites in the Federal Capital

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Tribune reporter, 15 others named Solutions Journalism LEDE’s fellows

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As a senior reporter with the Nigerian Tribune, Ifedayo Ogunyemi and fifteen other top journalists and media professionals globally have been named as the LEDE Fellows — journalism entrepreneurs spreading solutions journalism to their communities and beyond by the Solutions Journalism Network. Ogunyemi, who is also a fact-checker, solutions reporter and media coach covers politics,

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Campus journalists trained on solutions journalism, fact-checking, others

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Thirty campus journalists and members of the Academia Campus Journalists, the supreme press club of Center for Degree Programs at the Federal College of Education (FCE), Abeokuta, Ogun State, in affiliation with the University of Ibadan have been trained on the emerging trends of journalism including solutions journalism and fact-checking. The maiden seven-day training with

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African newsrooms priotising solutions journalism

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African newsrooms are giving priority to solution journalism in their reporting according to the findings of the study of impact, innovation, threats and sustainability of digital entrepreneurs in Latin America, South Asia and Africa. The Inflection Point International report by SEMBRA Media with support of Luminate and additional support of Centre for International Media Assistance

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Scholars call for inclusion of Solution Journalism in curriculum

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Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State in Nigeria has initiated a campaign to incorporate Solutions Journalism (SoJo) in the Mass Communication curriculum in Nigeria. At the workshop for media educators in Ogun State tagged “Mainstreaming Solutions Journalism into Media Education and Practice”, scholars agreed that the National Universities Commission (NUC) and National Board for Technical Education

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‘Our experience writing solution stories’

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Under the Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative, Nigeria Health Watch has assembled and trained the first cohort of Solutions Journalists in the country who are being supported to produce stories. The participating media organisations are News Agency of Nigeria, Nigeria Info FM, Pulse Nigeria, THISDAY Newspapers, Leadership Newspapers, Daily Trust Newspapers, TalkHealth9ja, Sparkling FM Calabar, Freedom

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Solutions Journalism project for educators, journalists in Nigeria

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No fewer than 50 educators, journalists and students from 27 tertiary institutions and media organisations in Ogun State, Nigeria will benefit from the Solutions Journalism project by Solutions Journalism Africa Fellow, Folarin Jamiu of Crescent University, Abeokuta.  Jamiu, who announced this in a statement, said arrangements have been finalized to host a workshop and training

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