I started fact-checking about three years ago, but my focus has been identifying misinformation around health, finance, politics, and general issues. Although I have been reporting issues around climate change, I had never done any climate change fact-checking before the fellowship.
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The Union of Campus Journalists, (UCJ-UNIPORT) of the University of Port Harcourt, has inaugurated its newly elected executive and standing committee members.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), in partnership with Afropolitan Media Organisation, has trained 60 Kaduna state-based media practitioners on tax administration in Nigeria.
President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Christopher Isiguzo, says the newly inaugurated National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC) will build a stronger media profession that would work for the Nigerian people.
The Nigerian media will on Monday inaugurate a nine-member board of the National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), otherwise known as…
For violating the broadcasting code in a programme with the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Datii Baba-Ahmed, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has placed a N5 million fine on Channels Television.
The Journalists International Forum for Migration (JIFORM) and the German Embassy in Nigeria will be partnering on a training programme for journalists on migration and economic issues.
An Investigative Reporter with an online newspaper, crimefacts.news, Ibe Pascal has been selected to participate in the 2023 Open Contract Reporting Fellowship organized by the International Center For Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja.
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, CP Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate, arrest, and prosecute an online publisher for allegedly spreading falsehood against authorities in the state.
ASHENEWS reports that the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos–Nigeria has condemned the attack on Wish FM 99.5, and Atlantic Television Network through sporadic gunshots and explosions by gunmen in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Tuesday night.