• Upping Media Reportage Ahead 2015 Elections

    Upping Media Reportage Ahead 2015 Elections0

    Zeroing in on media performance and x-raying how the media performs its information dissemination, watchdog and social responsibility roles while reporting elections is not the kind of event that is unexpected as 2015 beckons. This was precisely what happened at the fifth media tweet-a-thon organized by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria, recently. The issue

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  • 2015: Advancing Youth Participation In Election

    2015: Advancing Youth Participation In Election0

      The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria will hold her sixth media tweet-a-thon with the theme: “2015: Advancing youth participation in elections” on Tuesday, December 23, 2014. According to Mr. Lanre Arogundade, Director of IPC, the tweet-a-thon with hashtag #Media4Elections is a monthly activity supported by UNDP DGD III aimed at promoting active media engagement

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  • Communiqué of a 2-Day North-East Media Workshop on Election Reporting

    Communiqué of a 2-Day North-East Media Workshop on Election Reporting0

    INTRODUCTION The workshop was organized by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos in collaboration with the Democratic Governance for Development (DGD lll) Project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other partners. The project is being implemented by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria with the funding support of the United Nations Development Programme’s

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  • Communiqué of a 2-Day North-Central Media Workshop on Election Reporting

    Communiqué of a 2-Day North-Central Media Workshop on Election Reporting0

    INTRODUCTION The two-day capacity building workshop was organized by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria as part of the project on Media Capacity Building, Mentoring and Monitoring for Conflict-Sensitive, Public-Issue and ICT-Driven Reporting of 2015. The project is being implemented by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria with the funding support of the United Nations

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  • How media can promote participation of women in politics

    How media can promote participation of women in politics0

    In the drive to increase the number of women who eventually emerge as elected officers in the country’s political space, the International Press Centre, (IPC) last week in Lagos organised a tweet-a-thon conference with the theme, ‘2015: Promoting female participation in elections’. In his welcome address, Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, said the tweet-a-thon

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  • Why media must not abandon its agenda-setting role

    Why media must not abandon its agenda-setting role0

    Nigerian journalists and the media have been urged not to abdicate its agenda-setting roles to politicians and political parties. This was one of the submissions reached by participants at a two-day media workshop on conflict-sensitive, gender-supportive, professional and public interest reporting of 2015 elections for south-west journalists recently held at Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Participants maintained

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