The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in collaboration with Media Awareness and Information for All Network (MAIN) have engaged Nigerian journalists in a 2-day training to broadened their knowledge on Sustainable Development Goals(SDG’s) reportage.
Penpushing reports that the journalists from different organizations, drawn from both electronic, print and online converged at American Corner located at former Concord Newspapers, Lagos between Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 May 2022 for the intensive and in depth training, which is also to develop a network of sustainable development journalists.
The activities of the training included training house-keeping and participants expectations, about the training and objectives, as well as to know what exactly sustainable development is all about, implementing agenda 2030 and the SDG’s in Nigeria: Progress ana Challenges.
Penpushing further reports that other activities are: Gender equality and sustainable development goals, sustainability story proposal (group session), presentation of guidelines and formation of groups, presentation and discussion of sustainability story pitch/proposal by participants, introducing the Nigeria network of sustainable development journalists
The session objectives acquainted participants with identities of resource persons and dignitaries, stated the background to the training and the learning objectives, documented the training and participants in attendance, deepened participants knowledge of agenda 2030 for sustainable development, capacitated participants with knowledge of gender dimension to sustainable development.
Penpushing reports that, at the training each group presented a proposal for a story on any dimension of sustainability, which was followed with formation of Nigeria Network of Sustainable Development Journalists, and participants were at the end of the training were decorated as champions of Sustainable Development Goals.
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