About WSCIJ 
OUR VISION
To stimulate the emergence of a socially just community defined by the ethics of inclusion, transparency and accountability through support to journalists.
OUR MISSION
To provide capacity development programmes, resources and encouragement to journalists to enable them pursue with passion the very rewarding process of investigative reporting thereby creating an enabling environment for social justice, democracy and good governance in Nigeria.
OUR CENTRE
The initiative started in 2005 under the name Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award (WSIRA). It operated as an award-giving organisation till 2008 when it took on the name Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. The change in name became necessary to reflect the intention of the coordinators to embrace a more robust line of activities; such that have greater capacity for engendering the appropriate values of investigative journalism in the Nigerian media environment.
OUR NAME
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he Centre is named after Professor Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel Laureate in Literature (1986), in recognition of his life-long work in support of the freedom of expression, freedom to hold opinion, and freedom to impart them without fear or favour and without hindrance or interference.
Wole Soyinka was born on July 13, 1934. He has suffered incarceration, exile and numerous assassination attempts under different Nigerian military dictators as a result of playing his role as a social critic. He has continued to be the conscience of the nation, and an avowed critic of successive corrupt, inept, and abusive governments.
Over the last six years, the initiative has promoted a number of programmes in a bid to achieve its core objectives and vision. These initiatives include sixth editions of annual back-to-back award for investigative reporting, three annual lectures, three training programmes, two skill enhancing publications, the creation of a network for investigative journalism and one campus based capacity development initiative.
OUR TEAM
- Executive Director - Dapo Olorunyomi
- Centre Coordinator - Motunrayo Alaka
- Research Officer - Toyin Akinniyi
- IT Support Officer - Yakub Afuye
OUR BOARD MEMBERS
- Professor Ropo Sekoni - Professor of Literature in English of the Lincoln University and a member of the editorial board of The Nations newspaper.
- Mr. Idowu Obasa - Chairman, Onigbongbo Local Development Area.
- Mr. Jiti Ogunye - A public interest litigant and freedom of expression advocate
- Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi - Current Enterprise Editor of NEXT (234next.com) and former Policy Director at the Nigerian anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
- Professor Alfed Opubor (Late) - The first African professor of Mass Communication and current head of the West African Development News Agency Development Institute ( a UN initiative for capacity development of news agency staff in the sub-region.
- Professor Brant Houston - The renowned and distinguished leader of Investigative reporting, and former director of the former American body – the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) group is the knight Professor of Investigative Journalism in Missouri.
- Hawa Baba Ahmed - Former national broadcast presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority and graduate of the University Of Cardiff School Of Journalism in Wales.
- Mallam Nuhu Ribadu - The astute erstwhile chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria’s foremost anticorruption agency.
- Mr. Ndukar Irabor - The former editor of The Guardian Newspaper and a former parliamentarian. He is currently a businessman.
- Mr. Sunday Dare - A former General Editor of The News Magazine, an alumnus of the Harvard University and New York University Fellowship in Journalism. Mr. Dare is currently Programme Head at the Voice of America in Washington DC.