Odinkalu to speak on govt, media accountability at FrontFoot’s roundtable

A former National Human Rights Commission Chairman, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, will lead discussions at the Third Media Roundtable for senior professionals, being organised by FrontFoot Media Initiative, on August 15, 2024.

Odinkalu, at the event, scheduled to be held at Bon Hotel, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State, will speak on government accountability to the people and how media accountability makes that happen.

Director and Partner of FrontFoot Media Initiative, Emeka Izeze, who was Managing Director of The Guardian, said the media roundtable would mark the end of a three-year programme wherein FrontFoot featured in a cohort of NGOs as part of the collaborative media engagement for development, inclusion and accountability project led by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation.

Izeze said that members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), would participate in the roundtable, while representatives from the Mass Communication faculties of contiguous universities will also feature.