PREMIUM TIMES Journalists to speak at Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Norway

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PREMIUM TIMES journalists, alongside other investigative reporters around the world, have been named as speakers at the ongoing Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) in Lillehammer, Norway.

In its ninth edition this year, 900 journalists from 120 countries are charting the way forward for investigative journalism.

Musikilu Mojeed, PREMIUM TIMES Managing Editor, will speak Thursday at 2pm (Nigerian time) on Finding Africa’s missing money.

At the session, Mr. Mojeed, a multiple award winning investigative journalist, alongside other reporters from leading publications in Africa, will reveal how funds belonging to African countries are stolen and stashed abroad.

He will also reveal the tactics corporations and corrupt leaders adopt in stealing resources belonging to African countries.

He will present and explain some of the methods PREMIUM TIMES, Nigeria’s leading investigative newspaper, uses in its groundbreaking investigations.

The session will feature participants in the Wealth of Nations project , supported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which worked with Africa’s leading journalists and media houses – as well as top journalists from across the world – to report on illicit finance and tax abuse.

PREMIUM TIMES was part of that project.

It will also feature journalists from the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting(ANCIR), which strengthens African investigative journalism by improving expertise, sustainability and production capacity in muckraking newsrooms.

Another PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Tobore Ovuorie, will speak at the conference on Saturday at 11.30am (Nigerian time).

She would be on a panel on: How to report Modern day slavery.

A multiple-award winning investigative journalist, Ms. Ovuorie will, alongside Irish Investigative reporter, Sean O’Driscoll, share tips on how best to report on the issue.

She would same day, at 3: 30pm (Nigerian time), speak at the session on “Lightning around: Great stories you never heard of”.

During this session, alongside other global investigative reporters, she would discuss her investigative story which exposed how Nigerian health officials connived with hawkers to steal, counterfeit mosquito nets.