Elections, Governance & People With Disabilities: Changing The Status Quo

Elections, Governance & People With Disabilities: Changing The Status Quo 0
- Report Update
- December 1, 2014
Well meaning Nigerians including stakeholder groups; the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), civil society organizations, political office holders, politicians, political parties and the general citizens, have been urged to support and include People With disabilities (PWDs) in development plans, and especially creating enabling facilities and conducive environment for them to actively participate in the 2015 general
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Communiqué of a 2-Day North-Central Media Workshop on Election Reporting 0
- Report Update
- November 10, 2014
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 0
- Report Update
- October 20, 2014
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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Wole Soyinka Centre calls for 2014 award entries 0
- Press Release
- October 14, 2014
The ninth edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting opens for submission of entries on Saturday October 4, 2014. This is happening as the 2013 winners return from a one-week study tour to the United Kingdom which spanned from Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October, 2014. The international exposure included classes at
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Why media must not abandon its agenda-setting role 0
- Report Update
- October 9, 2014
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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Communiqué of a Two-Day North-West Workshop on Election Reporting 0
- Report Update
- October 9, 2014
INTRODUCTION The two-day workshop was held as part of the project titled: Media Capacity Building, Mentoring and Monitoring for Conflict-Sensitive, Public-Issue and ICT-Driven Reporting of 2015. The workshop had in attendance twenty-five male and female broadcast and print journalists, who report political issues and will be on electoral duty for the 2015 elections. The project
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