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…
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…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) received with shock reports of attack against Toba Adedeji a correspondent with The Nation Newspaper, by an officer of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on Tuesday May 31st while covering a protest in Osogbo. Local reports say that the journalist was covering a protest by some youths over the death…
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…
Africa Media Development Foundation, AMDF is to train the new executives of the Kaduna State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ on leadership. It will also support the Council in developing it’s 3-year strategic plan, as well as engage in periodic training on Journalism skills for members of the Council. A Memorandum of Understanding…
Following the Memorandum Of Understanding signed with the Kaduna State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, the Africa Media Development Foundation, AMDF recently organized a training session on Investigative Reporting for Chapel members of the Union drawn from various media organizations. The participants were taken through various aspects of Investigative Reporting, Generating Story…
Today, at Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), we salute journalists in Africa, and others around the world, who remain in the frontline to practice journalism, despite the attacks, threats, imprisonment, loss and blackmail. As we mark the 2022 World Press Freedom Day, we remember each of the 55 journalists killed worldwide in the last one…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) and the Kaduna State Water Corporation (KADSWAC) are partnering to raise the consciousness of the populace on the value of water as a measure to mitigate climate reality in the state. No doubt, the devastating effect of climate change continues to be on the increase in Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria,…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), in collaboration with Bridge That Gap Initiative, on Monday in Kaduna during this year’s first quarter Media Roundtable on Climate and Environment have attributed most of the environmental challenges experienced to human activities. The Participants noted that human activities had driven animals and birds into extinction, as some plants they…
To commemorate the International Women’s Day 2022, Africa Media Development Foundation on Tuesday organized a community awareness and sensitization forum on gender equality and Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law. The meeting which was organized for 50 women in Rigasa, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, had in attendance, the Ward head and the Imam of the…
