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Kwara Gov mourns as body of ‘missing’ Mubaarak found

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has described as shocking and saddening the death of 27-year-old Yusuf Mubaarak under hazy circumstances that he said must be investigated...

Metro3 months ago

Oyo Govt. to Demolish Illegal Properties in Akanran

The Oyo State Government will soon commence the demolition of illegal properties and structures built on government land in Akanran, Ona-Ara Local government. This was as...

Metro3 months ago

Prosperity of FCT residents beyond city centre– Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said that the FCT Administration would give due attention to the development of satellite towns....

Metro3 months ago

Late NAF officer, Goselle Nanpon’s family gets N5m donation from Kwara govt.

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has on Thursday presented a cheque of N5 million to the family of LCpl Goselle Nanpon, a Nigeria Air Force (NAF)...

Metro3 months ago

Energy: Commissioner seeks staff cooporation and effectiveness

The newly appointed Kwara State Commissioner for Energy, Engr. Abdulazeez Kola Abdulganiy has assured that there would be maximum growth in the energy sector of the...

Media personnel have been urged to focus more on their immediate environment to enhance accountability, good governance and development of grassroots. This was according to the General Manager, Herald Newspapers, Mr. Yomi Adeboye on Wednesday, during a media engagement and training for journalists in Ilorin, stressing that local governance reportage would engender good leadership. "We must begin to hold our local elected representatives accountable," he noted. Taking his time to enumerate the function of Local Governments, Mr. Adeboye opined that journalists can help to highlight needs assessment of the people by reporting on lapsed area or communities. He further said, "Local Government also serve some administrative purposes by representing us at the council and involve us in determining our needs. This is necessary to avoid projects duplication as well as projects that won't meet people's need, which have become the norm in Nigerian governance. They will just appropriate fund and execute projects without asking what are the needs of the people" Speaking on accountability, he noted that it is the obligation of elected officers to answer for the execution of their assigned responsibilities, explanation on the spending of public money. He therefore urged that journalists must keep politicians on their edge by demanding disclosure of facts and figures, even if they don't want to. "You don't even know how much revenue they get, or the size of allocation they receive from Abuja, needless of what they do with the fund. Accountability can be liken to the idea of stewardship and being held answerable and liable for actions and inactions taken. "As journalists, these are some of the things we need to take very seriously. We are to help the society to take these people into account, which has the possibility of affecting peoles' decision during voting," Adeboye urged. Also addressing the participants on fact-checking as a tool for investigative journalism, Mrs. Zainab Sanni, the founder of News Verifier Africa, highlighted ways to identify fake news. She added that journalists must be well equipped to spot motives of information which sometimes could be misinformation, disinformation or mal-information. Mrs. Sanni noted that videos, voices and images could be doctored to selfish reasons but journalists must be tech savvy and be accustomed to modern tools to detect such deceit and expose it. "Media personnel must be able to identify original content by knowing its source, if its fresh or where it was first used on the internet, captions and other meta data that are generic to the images or other media files." The media engagement was part of the series of training for journalists to enhance good governance, organised by Albakar FM, with the support of McArthur Foundation and Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Metro3 months ago

Journalists tasked on decentralised, local governance reportage

Media personnel have been urged to focus more on their immediate environment to enhance accountability, good governance and development of grassroots. This was according to the...

Metro3 months ago

Commissioner for Business, Innovation & Tech. meets staff, sues for dedication, others

The newly appointed Commissioner for Business, Innovation and Technology in Kwara State, Hon. Damilola Yusuf has implored Staff of the Ministry to rededicate themselves to their...

Metro3 months ago

Kwara NALVEJ elects new executives, return Akanbi as chairman

The National League of Veteran Journalists ( NALVEJ) in Kwara State on Wednesday elected new executive that will run its affairs for the next three years....

Metro3 months ago

Oyetola Inspects Lagos Ports, Harps on Immediate Rehabilitation of Facilities

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has called for an immediate rehabilitation of the Apapa and Tin-Can ports in Lagos State, Nigeria. The...

Crime3 months ago

EFCC Arrests 20 Alleged Internet Fraudsters in Ibadan

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested twenty (20) alleged internet fraudsters. The suspects were arrested on...