BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023 for Nigerian Journalists

This informs the public about the BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023 for Nigerian Journalists. Details about the Program are given below.

BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program

About BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023

In Nigeria, corruption continues to be one of the greatest fueling poverty, inhibiting development and internecine conflicts. Even with our natural endowments and gains in financial technology, Nigeria still ranked among the poorest countries in the world. The world poverty clock shows that Nigeria has overtaken India, with most people living in extreme poverty. The struggle to lift citizens out of extreme poverty stems from Nigeria’s mismanagement of its resources alongside corruption and civil unrest.

Program Details

Nearly 90 million people in Nigeria live in extreme poverty, approximately half of the country’s population. Nigeria faces a major population boom and is anticipated to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050. This being said, the problem is likely to worsen. There are many unresolved problems in Nigeria, but the issue of the upsurge of corruption is troubling, and the damage it has done to the polity is astronomical. Corruption has shown its deep roots in every section of Nigerian society. This evidence indicates that for poverty to reduce drastically, we need to be able to reduce CORRUPTION.

Benefits

We will provide a monthly stipend of N200,000 to cover story coverage and logistics. We will also hold rounds of engagements with stakeholders on the ideas to receive feedback and potential support. Other sessions on Centring People in your stories, Storytelling for journalists, Making sense of the data, Data Visualisation Tools, and Multimedia storytelling will be handled by the BudgIT team.

BudgIT does not guarantee the publishing of stories in the Nigerian dailies as applicants are ideally full-time writers, print, radio or broadcast journalists, filmmakers, bloggers, or other media makers, with well-established records of publication, dissemination or broadcast in local, regional or national markets, or among targeted audiences or constituencies.

From 2017 to 2022, we provided extended support of $700,000 to all journalists who were on board through our organisation. Journalists like Eromo Egbejule, Mercy Abang, Olu Rotimi, Babatunde Okunlola, Adebulu Taiwo, and Kelechuckwu Iruoma who did stories that sent shock waves across Africa through the platform offered to them by BudgIT.

BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023  Application

For those interested in BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023. Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 19 August 2023.

Open this link for more details about the BudgIT GovSpend Media Fellowship Program 2023.

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