Oncoming Events

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) will convene a panel discussion on Cybercrime at the AITEC Africa Conference in March 2014. According to PIN, “the panel aims to discuss the Cybercrime Bill 2013, if the bill is a little too late, the controversies surrounding the bill, and what Nigeria should really do...

She Leads Africa (SLA) and Intel Corp will host a series of educational workshops for female technology entrepreneurs in cities across Africa from January 2015. The workshop series which started on January 24, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya has two more scheduled stops in Johannesburg, South Africa and Lagos, Nigeria. The...

Digital Media Europe (DME), the top digital news media event  for publishers, is set to hold its 2014 DME programme in London from April 7 to 9, 2014. It is tagged 'DME14'. According to DME “The major goal of Digital Media Europe is to help individuals and organizations alike push towards...

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) will host a two-day Africa Regional Conference on Freedom of Information Implementation on March 18 and 19, 2014 in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, to design strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of access to information laws on the continent. The Conference will bring together over 100 Freedom...

Nominations are still open for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Press Freedom Prize, which recognizes journalists who have made remarkable contributions to the promotion of press freedom. UNESCO marks World Press Freedom Day by conferring the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on a deserving individual, organization...

A call for entries for the Nigeria Prize for Literature has been made by Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited . The Nigerian Prize for Literature is endowed by NLNG and was established to honour the author of the best book by a Nigerian within the preceding four years. The prize...