By Mercy King’ori On June 12, 2023, the President of Nigeria signed the Data Protection Bill into law following a successful third reading at the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Data Protection Act, 2023 (the Act) has had executive and legislative support and marks an important milestone in Nigeria’s nearly two-decade journey towards a comprehensive data protection law. Renewed efforts towards a comprehensive…
BACKGROUND Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) invites applications from interested professional, or freelance journalists in Africa for its Journalist of the Year Award. CRITERIA • Each piece of work submitted must be an untold story from Africa and focused on Africans • The piece must reflect high quality journalism work, highlighting major issues in the story, as well as…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) held its 2022 annual Bagauda Kaltho Memorial Media Lecture Series virtually, with the theme “Free Media for Sustainable Development: The Role of Journalists. Since inception, AMDF has worked towards promoting media development, press freedom and communication and as its affects issues of development. The year’s theme was aimed at drawing attention on the role…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) held one-day roundtable meeting with stakeholders to brainstorm on the way forward for the full implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The meeting was part of activities towards the implementation of the project “Prevention of Gender Based Violence in 12 Communities in Kaduna State”. In a welcome…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Kaduna state council held its first leadership training for members of the executive in partnership with Africa Media Development Foundation in Kaduna. Speaking at the training, the executive chairman of the NUJ Kaduna state council, Asma’u Yawo Halilu said the meeting was in fulfillment of its campaign promise “as part of our electioneering…
The MD/CEO Hybrid Feeds, Leye Alayande has commended the Africa Media Development Foundation and OmniAgrik Specialties for the Journalists’ mentorship on Reporting Food Security initiative in Kaduna. Speaking to journalists on a one-day field trip to the Hybrid Feeds plant in Kaduna, Alayande said the importance of food to the safety of a nation cannot be overemphasized “that is…
The Covid 19 pandemic has no doubt changed alot of engagements globally. For a lot of endeavours it is no longer business as usual. This is not any different for journalism practice, especially in terms of content generation. Hitherto, journalists especially development journalists had access to unreached communities and physical access to other news sources as they put out…
By Eugenia Abu For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The profession…
Dear Social Media and Content-Sharing Platforms: As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, the importance of your platforms and their real world impact has never been clearer. Your platforms are being used to communicate, assemble, research the virus, provide mutual aid, and more. We understand that many platforms have increased their reliance on automated content moderation during the…
Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 31, 2020. Following further assessment, it raised its global risk from “high” to “very high” on February 28, and finally declared it a pandemic on March 11. The COVID-19, also known as novel coronavirus, is currently spreading across Africa and the world….
