DevReporting, an online newspaper established by Development Reporting Services Limited, is set to take off. With its headquarters in Lagos, the newspaper said its interest is to promote informed discourse, balanced reporting, and comprehensive impact on development issues in Nigeria and Africa.

This is contained in a statement by the organisation’s Administration and Finance Control Manager, Omobayo Azeez. Azeez enjoined Nigerians, Africans, and its targeted global audience to visit its website and social media pages on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

This is as the organisation has announced Mojeed Alabi- a former Development Editor at PREMIUM TIMES, and Christiana Alabi-Akande, a former correspondent at Daily Trust Newspaper, as team lead/editor-in-chief, and managing editor, respectively.

According to the statement, as a niche platform, the newspaper intends to “disrupt the status quo with a unique style of covering development issues in Nigeria and beyond through four major projects of DevCinema, DevCheck, DevCast, and DevStats.

“The details of these initiatives will be made public in the coming days but Nigerians and Africans should be prepared to witness firsthand rich exclusives, analysis and investigations on happenings within the development sectors, especially education, health, and humanitarian issues and how they affect the people,” the statement noted.

The newspaper said as changes and needs of the people evolve, journalism’s response must also evolve, noting that the issues that deserve much emphasis in the media should be based on the different eras.

The statement further noted: “The truth is that when the fight against the colonialists was in vogue, the media did well; when the military incursions dominated the post-colonial era, journalism also played its part. But now that democracy seems to have been enthroned and the new challenges are the issues of poor leadership, corruption, and stark underdevelopment, journalism needs to refocus by significantly highlighting these issues in connection with the people’s survival. That is the vacuum DevReporting has come to fill.”