Nigeria is scheduled to present a technical paper on Media and Information Literacy in the country at the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN) summit which begins tomorrow(June 25) in Rio De Janeiro , Brazil.
IFCN , which has tagged the Brazil summit, its 12th edition , as GLOBALFACT12, is the apex professional organization of fact checkers throughout the world .
Miss Temilade Onilede, the Programme Manager at DUBAWA , a prime fact checking agency in Nigeria, has been mandated by the IFCN to present a specialized paper on contemporary fact checking optics in Nigeria.
Onilede’s paper has as its sub theme ”From Newsroom to Classroom:DUBAWs Impact in integrating Media and Information Literacy in Nigerian secondary schools’.
DUBAWA is an arm of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) on the platform of Nigeria’s Premium Times.
During the four-day summit , the fact checkers will focus on emerging challenges in fighting disinformation , misinformation and lies in public spaces by agencies of mass and micro communications .
Since 2014, more than 4,000 people have attended GlobalFact summits in cities around the world including London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, Cape Town, Oslo, Seoul and Sarajevo.
Onilede was part of the Oslo summit in Norway in 2022, as well as the African fact Checkers’ version in Accra, Ghana in 2023 .
She has conducted numerous fact checking trainings for journalists in The Gambia, Liberia as well as across Nigeria’s major geo-political zones of Kano, Port Harcourt, Benin and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
IFCN Executive Director ,Angie Holan said the Rio De Janeiro summit will also tackle ,with a new prism, the concepts of information, misinformation, disinformation, truth and lies floating in public domain.
The United States’ based Poynter Institute is the official Presenter of IFCN.