UDEME commences maiden accountability fellowship with 21 journalists

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According to the UDEME Project Manager, Ijeoma Okereke-Adagba, the 2024 accountability fellowship aims to build the capacity of journalists in Nigeria and Ghana to identify red flags in budget line items and unique patterns in contract awards that violate local procurement laws. Others are Ekemini Simon, The Mail; Kafilat Taiwo, Dataphyte; Manasseh Mbachii, Middlebelt Reporters; Angela Nkwo-Akpolu, Leadership Newspaper; Abdulwasiu Olokooba, Sahara Reporters; Abubakar Kankara, Daily Episode and Muhasa TV/Radio; Azeez Jaji, TheInformant247; Adediran Adeleke, New Telegraph; Okediran Adeyemi, BONews Service; Shafa’atu Suleiman, Daily Times; and Yahuza Bawage, Prime Progress.

Mr Kwujeli noted that the budget formulation process engenders discipline and enhances transparency, adding that efforts are required to address some budget concerns that are likely to encourage impunity and corruption. The workshop also had CJID’s Director of Programmes, Akintunde Babatunde; Assistant Managing Editor at PREMIUM TIMES, Bisi Abidoye, and Dubawa’s Editor, Kemi Busari.CJID is a West African media innovation and development think tank founded in 2014 as a non-governmental organisation in Nigeria.

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