Nigeria’s leading investigative newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES, has been commended for promoting integrity, transparency and accountability in governance through its well-structured training programme and capacity-building initiatives for journalists and other relevant professionals.
The heads of three strategic government agencies and the Director-General of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) gave the commendation on Wednesday at the opening of a two-day training programme for journalists on Governance and Policy Reporting organised by the PREMIUM TIMES Training Academy in conjunction with the NGF.
The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ali Mohammed Ali; the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Jibrin Ndache; the Director-General of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Salihu Dembos and the NGF Director-General, Asishana Okauru, were unanimous that the media must rise to the challenge of tracking budgetary allocations to ensure improvement of the living standard and wellbeing of citizens.
