Neptune Prime holds training on strategic use of social media for advocacy
By Muhammad Maitela, Damaturu
The Neptune Network Nigeria Limited (NNNL) will hold a Zonal engagement and training on Citizen Reporting and Dissemination of Information through Social Media in Potiskum, Yobe State, on Wednesday.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Publisher and CEO of NNNL, Malam Hassan Gimba.
He said that the engagement will strengthen the capacity of the participants on citizen journalism and the strategic use of social media for advocacy.
According to him, this will ensure that they are well-equipped to document and disseminate real-time developments, policy gaps, and governance issues.
The training, targeting 20 civil society organisations from Potiskum, Fika, Fune, and Nangere Local Governments of Yobe State, will hold in Potiskum.
The Potiskum training will serve as template for similar training in other zones in the state.
Papers will be presented by media professionals including Dr Ahmed Mohammed Bedu, former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Yobe and currently a lecturer with the University of Maiduguri.
Other resource persons are Saleh Mari Maina, a veteran journalist and lecturer at the Center for Sustainable Development, University of Abuja, Baba Ahmed, Malam Abubakar Ahmed, a retired deputy director with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), and Dr Furera Bagel, a lecturer at Bauchi State University.
