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Journalists focus on upcoming census at workshop Reporting population issues was front-burner topic for the cream of Nigerian journalists at the national workshop on polulation. With the 2006 census only weeks away, the issues of fairness and accuracy in reporting the census took center stage. Coming up March 21-25, 2006, the cenus is the first since the controversial headcount of 1991. Already, there is fear that this one would be just as controversial as the previous national headcounts, if not more. The National Population Commission (NPC), with the mandate to conduct all national surveys is working to ensure a transparently successful census in March. This includes working with the media to publicize the event and inform the public accurately about the purpose of the census, its benefits, as well as what constitute offences against the census exercise and their penalties. ENHANSE provided support for the census with a five-day training workshop for reporters, January 23-27, 2006, in conjunction with NPC. The workshop brought together experts in population issues from the NPC and Correspondents from eight national and regional newspapers to brainstorm proper reporting of populations issues in the run up to the census and thereafter. Champion Newspaper, Daily Independent, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Daily Sun, as well as Daily Trust participated in the workshop. Journalists from the Abuja Enquirer and Abuja Tempo also participated, including those from Leadership, New Sentinel and Newsday newspapers. The activities of the week-long workshop included discussions with experts
in communication and population; considerations of the legal implications
of how individuals and communities choose to participate in the exercise;
skills-building for Journalists in the use of numbers/figures in stories;
and computer-assisted research. Other activities were site visits to listen
to presentations by NPCs key functionaries, and ascertain the commission’s
preparedness for the exercise. Participants also sampled public awareness
of the census and opinions about it on the streets and some households
at two separate locations in Abuja Participants issued a communiqué
to cap the week-long exercise.
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