A total of 203 reporters were trained during the pilot edition of the Pro-Engage: House-to-House project conceived by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and executed through funding partnership with the British High Commission.
The initiative, which held from January 19 to 30, 2015, took advocacy for investigative reporting from one media house in Nigeria to the other.
It provided capacity support for the creation and or improvement of investigative reporting desks in eight selected media houses in Lagos and Abuja.
The media houses trained were The New Telegraph, Media Trust, The Leadership, The Nation, The Guardian, The Premium Times, The News and Television Continental.
The Wole Soyinka Centre staff alongside its faculty, comprising veteran investigative journalism professionals, visited seven media houses to conduct the training for members of staff and followed up with workshops for representatives of the eight media houses.