- Safiu Kehinde
Nigerian Politics Online (NPO) Reports publisher, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, is set to speak in a panelists discussion on women’s leadership in journalism.
The event, hosted by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, is slated to hold on Tuesday 18th of March, 2025 via the centre’s X space by 11am.
Themed “Leveraging the news media in accelerating women’s leadership in journalism and society”, the panelist discussion will be moderated by Ugonna Agu, a journalist from the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.
Other selected members of the discussion panel include the University of Lagos’ (UNILAG) Director, Institute of Continuing Education, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika; African Women in Media (AWIM) Executive Director, Yemisi Akinbobola; and Media Trust Group Investigation Editor, Lami Sadiq.
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation with social justice programmes aimed at exposing corruption, regulatory failures and human rights abuses with the tool of investigative journalism.
The initiative started in 2005 under the name Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award (WSIRA).
It operated as an award-giving organisation till 2008 when it took on the name Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ).
The change in name became necessary to reflect the intention of the coordinators to embrace a more robust line of activities; such that have greater capacity for engendering the appropriate values of investigative journalism in the Nigerian media environment.