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Ruyi is a marketing company, and not strictly a journalism training provider. However, Irabor hasconducted journalism trainings in partnership with the US Consulate, and is currently preparing atraining with them.Website: ruyicommunications.comContact: Soni IraborPosition: Chairman/CEOCity: LagosPhone: 234.1.4613885, +234.1.7202002, +234.0.8044444444, +234.0.8034012149,+234.0.8055555500Email: soni@ruyicommunications.comNigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ)NIJ conducts trainings for journalists. Emman Nwuneli spoke very highly of Lizzie Ikem.Website: nijlagos.com/index.htmContact: Lizzie IkemPosition: DirectorCity: LagosPhone: 234017912496, 23408059196459Email: ikem1@yahoo.com, info@nijlagos.comLagos Business SchoolProfessor Patrick Utomi is one of the founding members of Lagos Business School and of BusinessDay newspaper. He studied journalism at the University of Nigeria before getting his MBA and MAin Journalism at the University of Indiana. He’s involved in academics, politics, business, andconsulting. He has a public policy and management consulting company called UtomAPP as well asa communications consulting company called PATIKE Communications. He is also the author ofWhy Nations Are Poor, where he discusses six key variables to economic development. He wasPresident Shehu Shagari’s advisor on political affairs before the 1983 coup. He also worked incorporate communications and was COO of Volkswagen in Nigeria.Contact: Patrick UtomiPosition: ProfessorCity: LagosPhone: 803818111Email: dinachiutomi@yahoo.com, pat.utomi@yahoo.comDevelopment Communications Network (Devcoms)Devcoms organizes journalism trainings. Akin Jimoh also happens to be a former reporter at TheGuardian.Website: www.devcomsnetwork.orgContact: Akin JimohPosition: Program DirectorCity: LagosPhone: 23418196309, 23408033053713Email: ajimoh@devcomsnetwork.org, devcoms@yahoo.comSchool of Media and Communications (SMC)SMC is part of Pan-African University, along with Lagos Business School. It provides graduateprograms in journalism as well as certificate courses, including business reporting, for working– 90 –
journalists. Biakolo is very professional, was very helpful in providing information and appears veryserious in his commitment to promoting journalism education.Website: www.smc.edu.ngContact: Emevmo BiakoloPosition: DeanCity: LagosPhone: 014703436, 0146161702, 271161720Email: ebiakolo@smc.edu.ngUnilag (University of Lagos) Department of Mass CommunicationsThis is one of the top schools in mass communications in Nigeria, and produces a large number ofgraduates with undergraduate and graduate degrees in mass communications. They also organizetrainings for working journalists. Akinfeyele is one of the foremost experts on mass communicationsin the country, has published several books on the matter and has lobbied the government forpassage of the Freedom of Information Bill. However, in terms of considering potential partnershipwith him for trainings, we have some concerns about the way he treats his subordinates.Website: www.unilag.edu.ngContact: Ralph AkinfeyelePosition: Head of DepartmentCity: LagosPhone: 08023021980Email: rakinfeleye@unilag.edu.ngNnamde Azikiwe University (Unizik)Unizik has a mass communications program as part of its degree programs. Professor EmmanOnuora Nwuneli, who said he has taught a large percentage of editors working in Nigeria today,helped found this program, after years of teaching at Unilag. Nwuneli is extremely knowledgeable onmass communications education in Nigeria, and a potential partner in coordinating journalismtrainings. He is also an extremely friendly and enthusiastic person. However, he does not teachbusiness reporting, and thus might not be appropriate for conducting business reporting trainings.Website: www.unizik.edu.ng/Contact: Emman Onuora NwuneliPosition: ProfessorCity: LagosPhone: 08033028206Email: eonwuneli@yahoo.comLegal Reform and AdvocacyOpen Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA – in Nigeria)OSIWA focuses on advocacy themes in Nigeria including government budget transparency;constitutional reforms to support a people-owned constitutional process; electoral reforms topromote the establishment of a credible electoral process, justice sector reform to enhance theeffective administration of justice; and human rights to support the promotion and protection ofwomen’s rights, citizenship rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.Website: http://www.osiwa.org/spip.php?id_rubrique=10– 91 –
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AcknowledgementsThis paper has bene
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Executive SummaryPurpose of the Rep
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journalists in these countries that
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Existing International Training Opp
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• Consumer Affairs and Informatio
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Background 3Of the three countries
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pervasive conflict in the Niger Del
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Low pay and low regardOne of the mo
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Even in cases where working journal
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When asked how much the media could
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the effects of these challenges for
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journalist said he has, however,
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evenues each year,” 106 which wou
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