Nigeria

Factcheck: Phishing Website Used to Call for FIRS Application on WhatsApp 0
- News
- October 24, 2024
Claim: A WhatsApp user in a community group posted the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Application Portal link. Verdict: The website link posted to be the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) application portal is a phishing website. Full Text: On October 22, 2022, a WhatsApp user posted information claiming that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)
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Post-election Violence and the Media 0
- Report Update
- March 3, 2015
In 2011, over 800 people were killed as a result of election-related and communal violence, following the April 2011 presidential election. According to the Human Rights Watch, the victims were killed in three days of rioting in 12 Northern states. Cause of the violence? Supporters of the main opposition candidate, MuhammaduBuhari, then of the Congress
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IPC To Hold Media Tweet-a-thon 0
- Press Release
- December 10, 2014
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria will hold a media tweet-a-thon with the theme: “Report of baseline survey of newspapers coverage of electoral issues ahead 2015 elections: Matters arising and lessons” on Thursday, December 11, 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
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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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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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Communiqué of a 2-Day South-West Media Workshop on Election Reporting 0
- Report Update
- October 8, 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 project is being implemented by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria with the funding support of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Democratic Governance for Development (DGD 111)
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