The Managing Editor of Nigeria Health Watch, Vivianne Ihekweazu, said the partnership was to engender solution-based reportage through reports of positive happenings around the country.
She said the programme would last for eight months with three journalists from Media Trust engaged in intensive training and mentorship in producing stories of positive impact on the health sector.
“They’ll be the first cohort of the programme. There are a lot of positive stories in Nigeria which are deflected by negative stories which we all face on a daily basis and are aware of. We felt Daily Trust is an important newsroom to start with due to your reportage.
It was a day set aside for the distribution of resources for the free education policy in the state as well as the unveiling of 10,000 copies of Teen Trust, a Media Trust Ltd publication, to help improve schoolchildren’s reading culture in the state.
The paper, first published in 2016 according to the publisher, is to encourage literacy among students and teenagers; to make the students become efficient writers as well as develop a proper reading habit.
“We have entered into an agreement with Daily Trust for the production of this newspaper, Teen Trust, to inform, educate and entertain our school children; so that they can develop their reading culture,” the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje declared to the crowd.
Speaking on the concerns of rising electrical accidents in Nigeria, Mr Nagode said, “We were with NERC recently and NERC is equally concerned because of the level of accidents.”
He said NERC is working to ensure that operators of the private-led power firms adopted NAPTIN safety syllabus for training.
Another collaboration of the institute with NERC, the power sector regulator, is on metering which Nagode said NAPTIN was enabled to ensure the training of all meter installers.
The DG said NAPTIN trains power sector workers and fresh electrical and mechanical engineering graduates under the National Graduate Skills Development Programme (NGSDP).
The trending issue of restructuring Nigeria got a major boost when Media Trust Ltd, publishers of the Daily Trust titles, recently provided an opportunity for the champions of the issue to pitch their ideas to a wider Nigerian audience. The occasion was the paper’s 18th annual dialogue series with the theme ‘Restructuring: Why? When? How?’ […]