The Wole Soyinka Centre plans first inaugural workshop for Investigative Journalists

Oct. 30 | WOLE SOYINKA CENTRE SEEKS TO INAUGURATE A NETWORK FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism plans to hold the inaugural workshop for the Nigerian Investigative Journalism Network with the theme:  ‘Investigative...

Entries open for 2011 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting

Oct. 6 | Wole Soyinka Centre begins search for the 2011 Nigeria Investigative Journalist of the Year In a bid to reward works that reflect best international practice in investigative journalism, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism opens call...

NEXT newspaper stops publication

Sep. 26 | AP- A Nigerian newspaper run by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist stopped publication Sunday after 2½ years of muckracking and sometimes controversial coverage of Africa’s most populous nation, the publisher said. NEXT newspaper, printed in Lagos,...

Nigeria critical columnist Okey Ndibe detained by security agency in Lagos

Jan. 9 | By Nigerians Abroad staff writer Famous critic of the Nigerian State and the Speaker of the Nigerian Peoples Parliament in Diaspora, based in New York City, Professor Okey Ndibe was on Saturday, December 8 detained and questioned by a member of the Nigeria...