From Ahmed Idris, Birnin Kebbi
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) incollaboration with the Kadimiyya Foundation, has trained 40 conventional media practitioners and social media on digital journalism and fact–checking.
The workshop was held at the Safar Guest in Birnin Kebbi on Friday.
Delivering her remarks, the Head of Corporate Affairs of the Agency, Hajiya Hadiza Umar, said the agency was committed to the expansion of the digital space and the promotion of robust, digital -based journalism that served the best and wider interest of the nation.
She explained further that the aim of the workshop was to be objective in the report, as well as for the practitioners to learn how to do fact- checks in order to help them to be able to do due diligence on any information.
