Meet the 2025 FRLP participants.
A reporter, editor and presenter at Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria’s Bond 92.9 FM, Lagos, Bilkis Abdulraheem has over a decade of experience covering health, gender and environment. She educates underserved communities with her stories in Yoruba. She has participated in several fellowships, including the Media Epidemiology, Infodemiology and Social Behaviour Change (Media-EIS) Fellowship and Dataphyte Gender Mainstreaming Fellowship. Abdulraheem won the 2024 Health Watch Prevent Epidemics Journalism Award
Mary Agidi began her journalism career in 2010 as a reporter and rose through the ranks to become an editor for the judiciary, business and political pages. Driven by a passion for amplifying marginalised voices, she founded JATS Online News in 2017. She currently serves as the Features and Opinion Writer at The Hope Newspaper in Ondo State. She previously worked as a Special Assistant on Media to the Ondo State Government.
The Managing Editor of Development Reporting Newspaper, Christiana Alabi-Akande, has 15 years’ experience in the media industry. She spent over a decade at Daily Trust Newspaper as a correspondent, covering various beats, including women and children and House of Assembly. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including the ‘Courage in Journalism’ and ‘2016 Journalist of the Year Award’ by the Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF). Akande holds a postgraduate diploma certificate in Mass Communication from Caleb University, Lagos.
Gloria Attah is a news writer, reporter and presenter with Clearview Television. She investigates gender, security, business and climate issues. Through her reports, she uncovered underage mining in Nasarawa, highlighted military efforts against insecurity in the Southeast, and challenged stereotypes against female journalists. She won the best Agricultural Biotechnology Report prize at the 8th Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in 2024. Attah holds a certification in digital journalism from Reuters.
Award-winning journalist, fact-checker and investigative reporter, Juliet Buna specialises in social justice reporting, with focus on issues affecting women and girls. Buna combines fact-checking expertise with data-driven storytelling and has earned some fellowships, including with African Women in Media (AWiM), Academy for Health Development (AHEAD), and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), where she was named Best Fellow for the Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship in 2024.
With over seven years of journalism experience, Aisha Gambo is a senior correspondent at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). She holds a degree in Mass Communication from Bayero University Kano and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Kaduna State University. Her reports cover gender, judiciary, education and community issues. Her work was featured by the Solutions Journalism Network. Gambo is the treasurer of the Correspondent Chapel, Nigeria Union Journalists, Kaduna, and a fellow of the Creative Storytelling Fellowship.
Rasheedat Iliyas is a seasoned broadcast journalist with passion for investigative journalism, solutions journalism and gender mainstreaming. She was a judge for the 2023 Solutions Journalism Network Award. She has received multiple awards and participated in several fellowships, including Africa Change Narrative Storytelling Fellowship, Dataphyte Gender Mainstreaming Fellowship, and DUBAWA Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship. She currently serves as the Manager, News and Current Affairs at Harmony FM, a station under Radio Nigeria.
A broadcast and multimedia journalist with nearly two decades of experience across public and private media, Melony Ishola serves as Head of Programmes (Video Unit) at Punch Nigeria Limited. She has worked with news platforms such as Daria Media, WFM 91.7 and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). An advocate for gender equality, she has produced investigative documentaries on female genital mutilation and women’s health. Ishola holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Lagos.
Jemilat Nasiru is a multimedia staff writer at TheCable Newspaper. She reports on health, politics, gender and inclusion. She is the host of TheCable’s ‘Our 2 Kobo Podcast’. Nasiru is a grantee of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). She holds certification in Narrative Change Techniques. Nasiru is a 2024 winner of the online category of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting and the Centre for Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID) Excellence in Journalism Award.
Temitope Obayendo – A health editor, patients’ rights and inclusivity advocate, Temitope Obayendo has over a decade of experience covering health. She is a recipient of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Journalist of the Year 2022 award and Nestlé Nigeria Media Awards in 2021 and 2024. A 2021 grantee of the Africa-China Reporting Project, her investigative work has exposed patient rights violations in Nigerian hospitals. Temitope holds a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of Lagos.
Chigozie Victor is a journalist and media professional with experience amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups, including women and people with disabilities. As Senior Editor at Zikoko Citizen, she oversees the vertical’s development and daily operations, ensuring Nigeria’s youth stay informed and engaged in shaping their future. Previously, as Head of the Gender Desk at HumAngle, she reshaped gender discourse and led training on best practices for reporting sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
With nearly a decade of experience as a broadcast journalist and voice-over artist, Dana Zagi focuses on issues affecting women and marginalised communities. She co-developed the News Accessibility Platform (NAP), ensuring better news access for people with disabilities (PWDs). A 2024 Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) AI-in-Journalism Fellow, Dana holds a diploma and bachelor’s degree in mass communication from the University of Jos.
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