Dubawa to graduate Tribune reporter, other 2021 Kwame Karikari fact-checking fellows

West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, will on Friday, February 25, graduate its 2021 cohorts of fact-checkers selected from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia including a Senior Reporter with the Nigerian Tribune, Faith Adeoye.

The fellows will be sent forth at a dinner and award night Scheduled to hold at Corinthian Villa Hotel, Garki Abuja where some fellows will be awarded for their exploits during the programme which spanned from June 2021 to November 2021.

The Programme Officer, Temilade Onilede, said: “This is meant to celebrate investigative reporting in the Nigerian media and honour journalists who, during the fellowship programme, worked tirelessly to expose mis-and disinformation while combating news disorder in the West-African sub-region and building a culture of practice around it.”

Dubawa, a project of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), since 2019, has been holding annual six-month fellowships for journalists, fact-checkers and researchers in The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone to equip fellows with skills in fact-checking and verification in combating the widespread regime of misinformation in the West African sub-region and to also contribute to knowledge around information disorder in the subregion.

The Kwame kakari Fellowship is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

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