Straight Talk with Chukwudi Obi

Former Vice President of Nigeria and All People Congress APC, chieftain, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advocated for legislations and incentives to promote girl child education in Nigeria. This is as the Turaki Adamawa called for the abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interest of the girl child in the country. Atiku, who made these comments on his Facebook page to mark International Day of the Girl Child yesterday, said promotion of equal socioeconomic opportunities will spur the girl child to maximize her full potentials. “Let us talk solutions for improving education access for girls in Nigeria. #DayoftheGirl. 1. Legislation to promote girl child education. Compulsory enrollment is critical. 2. Abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interests of the girl child and enforcing these laws. 3. Providing incentives for enrollment of girls, to ensure girls are kept in school. 4. Promotion of equal socio economic opportunities to spur girls into ma...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites entries from Nigerian reporters for the 10th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting from October 4, 2015. The award programme, true to its tradition, will honour works that involve reporting on public and or corporate corruption, human rights abuses or on the failure of regulatory agencies. A statement signed by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Coordinator, Motunrayo Alaka and made available to newsmen recently indicates that the award plans to reward outstanding reporters from print, radio, television, online, photography and editorial cartoon categories. “The submitted stories must have first been published or broadcast in a Nigerian media between 4th October 2014 and 3rd October 2015. In addition to the entry coding system which makes the details of media house and by-line of entrants anonymous to judges introduced in 2012, the WSCIJ now converts entries to electronic format before s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. : The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has concluded arrangements to host its 2015-2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony during the organization's 2016 convention in Washington, D.C. A statement made available to journalists indicates that instead of holding the Hall of Fame ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 16, the event will take place as a luncheon on Friday, August. 5, 2016, within NABJ's joint convention with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, where 44 founding members met and signed the document that created NABJ in 1975. The next class of NABJ Hall of Fame inductees includes: Tony Brown, Charles Gerald Fraser, Dorothy Leavell, Dori Maynard, Gil Noble, Monica Kaufman Pearson, Austin Long-Scott, Stuart Scott, Jacqueline Trescott, Morrie Turner, John H. White and L. Alex Wilson. "Incorporating the Hall of Fame ceremony into the convention enables more NABJ members to attend this h...