Aondo guber aspirant, Ohunyeye, seeks probe of Akintelure's death
A• CJID, GNI train journalists on digital skills, fact- checking
• Warn against dissemination of unverified information
From Adewale Momoh, Akure GOVERNORSHIP aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) for the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State, Olamide Ohunyeye, has urged a probe into the cause of the death of his fellow aspirant, Dr Paul Akintelure.
Ohunyeye said that the call became imperative following the alarm of threat to life raised by the deceased a few days before his demise.
Ohunyeye, who expressed shock over the sudden demise of the late Akintelure, suspended all his political activities and those of his campaign organisation to mourn and honour him, whom he described as his senior brother.
In a statement he signed, Ohunyeye said that among the political engagements that would be put on hold included a scheduled media parley as well as a tour of some wards in the state. EANWHILE, in a bid to combat information disorder ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development ( CJID), through its fact- checking initiative, Dubawa, in partnership with the Google News Initiative ( GNI), has trained no fewer than 40 journalists in the state.
The training, according to them, was designed to enhance the capacity of journalists, as well as introduce participants to essential factchecking techniques and Google tools for information coverage and verification. Read the remaining part of this
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