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About 20 journalists from different media houses participated in the training, which was conducted by Ms. Lerato Makate from Voice of Wits FM (University of Witwatersrand), South Africa. She started the training with the rudiments of journalists, which served the purpose of refreshing the memories of the participants, who have been practicing journalism for long.

One of the key topics of the training was the issue of journalistic ethics, which has been bothering many media practitioners in Nigeria. It was discussed that the code of ethics of each media house should be followed in cases of conflicts of interest. Although there are universal codes of ethics, which are applicable to all countries including Nigeria and South Africa, but there will always be instances where the codes have to be adapted to the situation of each country.

The co-trainer, Mr. Fidelis Ekom, came with over 25 years’ experience in radio journalism, and shared his experience in the industry with the journalists.

The workshop amongst others achieved the following:

- Peer Review

- Knowledge Sharing

- Networking and a Community of Practice

- Shared commitment to effect change in their respective media organizations.

Participants who were draw the from both the public and private radio stations (Radio Nigeria; Ray Power FM (a partner of KAS Nigeria, where a 1-hour Vision-Nigeria radio programme has been running for years), ; Wazobia FM; Cool FM and Nigeria Info FM) and the print media (Leadership and SUN Newspapers) were presented with journalism toolkit as material and theory reference point beyond the media training.

The Country Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Mrs. Hildegard Behrendt-Kigozi commended the journalists for actively participating in the media training and requested them to practice what they learnt. Mrs. Kigozi charged them to show integrity and responsibility in reporting news worthy stories.