Press Release The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), in partnership with Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, National Consultative Front (NCF), PLAYYA and MILID Foundation will Tuesday, October 19, 2021, hold a commemorative lecture and public presentation of Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices…
AFRICMIL Launches Book Project in Memory of Dele Giwa 35 Years After Assassination
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) is putting together a book of essays in honour of Dele Giwa, who was assassinated on October 19, 1986. Oladele Sunmonu Giwa was a fiery and courageous Nigerian journalist, Editor-in-Chief and founder of Newswatch, a weekly magazine founded in 1984. He was assassinated on October 19,…
AFRICMIL Seeks PACAC’s Intervention on Passage of Whistleblowing Bill
By Doyin Ojosipe The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has called on the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) to use its good offices to speed up the passage of the whistleblowing bill. Chido Onumah, Coordinator of AFRICMIL made the appeal during a courtesy call at the PACAC office in Abuja on…
AFRICMIL Berates FG, As MAF Urges Stakeholders To Invigorate Whistleblowing Policy
By Doyin Ojosipe Whistleblowers are holding- back on blowing the whistle because they are not protected and are not compensated on time the MacArthur Foundation has said. Kole Shetima, Country Director of the Foundation said this while fielding questions from Journalists at a whistleblowing workshop for lawyers which was organised by the African Centre for…
ICPC Commends, Partners AFRICMIL
By Doyin Ojosipe The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Tuesday, agreed to partner with the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) on its whistleblowing initiative tagged Corruption Anonymous (CORA). Olayinka Aiyebayo, Head, Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Division (CMED) at the Commission made this known during a courtesy call by…