Nigerian journalist selected For Reuters Training in UK

A journalist with National Wire, Tayo Olanipekun, has been selected to receive a full grant Training programme by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, in the United Kingdom.

He will be joining other journalists from across the world for the one week training starting from November 12, 2018.

This was made known in a letter confirming the offer to Olanipekun, dated October 15, 2018.

The “intensive programme,” only available to professional journalists, will focus on Reporting Trafficking and Slavery and it will also give the participants the opportunity to attend the Foundation’s Trust Conference.

“I am pleased to confirm our offer of a place on the following Reuters Journalism Training Programme in London: Reporting Trafficking and Slavery,” says the offer letter signed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation Project Manger, Will Church.

Nigeria is one of the countries with cases of irregular migration which fuels human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Participants are expected to produce series of impactful articles on the scourge of human trafficking and modern day slavery, receiving additional support from the Foundation, after the training.

“It an opportunity for us to join in the global campaign against the issue of human trafficking and modern day slavery,” said National Wire Managing Editor, Friday Ekeoba. “The subject has become a sore spot for the country and National Wire will be happy to make its platform a tool for combating the scourge.”

Olanipekun has plied his trade as a journalist with Newswatch, National Daily, National Standard and Glitz and Glamour, as well as heading the media unit of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) before joining National Wire in 2017.