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    Falana Backs Soyinka on Rejection of Sexual Offences Bill

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has thrown his weight behind Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka’s disapproval of some provisions of the Sexual Offences Bill, 2015, passed by the Senate of the 7th National Assembly. The bill, which criminalises the defilement of children under 11 […] More

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    Nigerian Journalists Trained On Investigative Journalism

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ has trained 203 Journalists in Nigeria on how to improve their investigative journalism skills. In addition to that, the WSCIJ provided capacity support for the creation and or improvement of investigative reporting desks in eight […] More

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    Nigerian Youths and Value Decline

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Did you ever consider it a mischief or an absurdity the description of the present generation as a waste by our own Nobel laureate, Professor ’Wole Soyinka? The sordid story of the Nigerian youths suggests that the man fondly called “Kongi Harvest” in […] More

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    Juliana Francis Emerges first Female Overall winner of Wole Soyinka Awards

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Juliana Francis, journalist with New Telegraph Newspaper, has won the overall Wole Soyinka Nigeria Investigative journalist of the year 2014 prize becoming the first female to attain such feat. The event, which is the 9th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting organized by […] More

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    SERAP, Osinubi, Others to Receive Soyinka Awards

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, will on Tuesday, December 9 honour the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, headed by Tokunbo Mumuni and Ademola Osinubi, Managing Director of The Punch Newspapers with its honorary Anti-corruption defender award and lifetime award […] More

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    Why Quality Education Matters

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Human capital is the foundation of any great country. This is why Nigeria must place much emphasis on the stability and state of instruction in the academia so that our Universities and other institutions of higher learning can continue to produce quality graduates […] More

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    Coping with Corruption

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By: John Adebisi, Internet Constituency Everybody talks about corruption. Everybody laments the level of corruption in the country. One way or the other – consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly – everybody fuels corruption. We pretend to fight corruption. Frankly speaking, one doesn’t have […] More

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    Nigeria May Be A Hopeless State – Soyinka

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laurent has said he will prefer to call Nigeria a hopeless state if the over 230 Government secondary school girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State are not found. Soyinka made the statement on Hardtalk, a BBC programme this morning while […] More