Social media and elections

COMMUNIQUE: STAKEHOLDERS REVIEW MEETING ON MEDIA AND THE 2015 ELECTIONS 0
- News, Press Release, Report Update
- June 11, 2015
> Preamble < A two-day stakeholders review meeting on Media and the 2015 elections was held at the Protea hotel, Ikeja Lagos on June 9th and 10th, 2015. The meeting was convened to review the performance of the media in the 2015 electoral process with the objective of documenting lessons learnt, best practices
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IPC decries attacks on journalists during National Elections 0
- Press Release
- March 30, 2015
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria has condemned the various incidents of attacks on journalists by security operatives and political thugs during last weekend’s presidential and national assembly elections. IPC said its monitoring of media coverage of the elections revealed that the following violation of journalists’ rights and press freedom occurred between Saturday and Sunday: Perez Brisibe
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IPC, NPC release report on media coverage of 2015 elections 0
- Report Update
- January 30, 2015
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria and the Nigeria Press Council (NPC), have released the findings and outcome of the monitoring of the coverage and reportage of the 2015 elections for the months of November and December, 2014. The report covered 26 newspapers, namely Daily Sun, The Nation, National Mirror, Vanguard, The Punch, ThisDay, Daily Independent,
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2015: Advancing Youth Participation In Election 0
- Press Release
- December 22, 2014
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 0
- Report Update
- November 11, 2014
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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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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