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Advisory Board
Dayo AIYETAN
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Dayo AIYETAN
Member, Advisory Board
Dayo Aiyetan an investigative journalist, media trainer and newsroom mentor. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the International Center for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja. He was a Senior Associate Editor and Abuja Bureau Chief at TELL Magazine until May 2010 when he resigned to set up the Center. A 1986 graduate of Theatre Arts/English from the University of Ibadan, he started his journalism career in 1989 as a Features Writer with Sketch Newspapers, Ibadan. He also worked in Concord Group of Newspapers, where he covered Politics, and TELL where he was at different times Head of BOB (Back of the Book), Head of Politics Desk, Head of Business Desk and Abuja Bureau Chief.
All this time he also acted as the chief anchor of TELL’s investigative reporting unit. A highly committed professional, through his investigative projects, he has helped to expose corrupt politicians and highly placed government officials. In August 2009, Aiyetan participated in the International Visitors Leadership program sponsored by the United States State Department. In October 2010 he returned to Washington DC as a fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, NED. His presentation was on “Combating Corruption in Nigeria: The Promise of Investigative Reporting”.
In 2017, he became the first African to be win the prestigious Knight Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Aiyetan is a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors, IRE, based in the United States.
Auwal Musa RAFSANJANI
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Auwal Musa RAFSANJANI
Member, Advisory Board
He is a Political Scientist from Bayero University Kano-Nigeria, with many international courses. He is a Human Rights, Anti-Corruption, Policy and Legislative Advocacy Activist interested in positive transformation of Nigeria and Africa.
Auwal Musa Rafsanjani currently the Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) www.cislacnigeria.net, and Head of Transparency International (Nigeria) as well as the Chairman, Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC). Likewise, he is the past immediate coordinator representing Sub African region on Civil Society Coalition on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption www.uncaccoalition.org/en/about-us/coordination-committee. He is a co-conver of Say No Campaign. Auwal was a founding Executive Committee Member of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), 1998-2000. Also an Executive Committee Member of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG)Publicity Secretary 2008-2012.
He was the Acting General Secretary of the West African Civil Society forum (WACSOF) 2014 to 2017. Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) has many years of experience in the areas of Extractive revenue transparency, Anti-corruption, Human Rights, as well as rich Legislative advocacy capacity. He is a board member of many reputable organizations, including Amnesty International (Nigeria) as it Chairman board of trustees.
Before he became the Executive Director of CISLAC, Mr. Auwal had worked with the Community Action for Popular Participation (CAPP) as a Programme Officer where he led projects on Community Development and Human Rights. He then moved to the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), during this period he led projects on diverse areas on Legislative /Policy Advocacy, Local Democracy, Good Governance, Constitutionalism and Development.
Mr. Auwal on the International level has gained considerable experience on training programmes and has also written many articles as well as being a regular public commentator of Newspapers, Radio, TV e.g. Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC, NTA, AIT, TVC, Channel TV, VOA, Radio Germany, Radio France and Radio Iran, FRCN etc, both in Hausa and English languages. He was a delegate at the National Conference in Nigeria 2014 representing Civil Society Groups .
Scott PEGG
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Scott PEGG
Member, Advisory Board
Scott Pegg is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Dr. Pegg is the author of International Society and the De Facto State and the co-editor of Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. He has published articles in such academic journals as African Affairs, Community Development Journal, Extractive Industries and Society, Foreign Policy Analysis, Geoforum, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources Policy, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly. Dr. Pegg first visited Nigeria in April 2000 and has been working in the Niger Delta for almost twenty years now.
He is Chair of the International Friends Committee of Bebor Model Nursery/Primary School where he raises fund to support six nursery and primary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. Since 2004, he has also served on the International Advisory Board for the Port Harcourt-based Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development. Scott lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife Tijen and their two children Kerem and Melis.
Evelyn Nkanga BASSEY
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Evelyn Nkanga BASSEY
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Evelyn Nkanga Bassey is an architect and environmentalist with a great passion for children and youths in environmental advocacy. She is an advocate of the concept “Catch them young”.
She has been in the practice of architecture since 1984. She served in the public sector, (University of Benin) for fifteen years and from there joined Base Consult and runs the firm as the Managing Partner. Together with a team of young dedicated architects, she has contributed to the built environment with functional and environment friendly building designs.
She is co-founder of COVER (Committee On Vital Environmental Resources) and The Young Environmentalists Network (TYEN), networks that reach school children and create awareness on the ever-present environmental issues. Evelyn is the author of Sickening Waste (1999), a research publication of waste management in Hospitals. Bassey is married and has 3 sons. A Christian, she leads a team of teachers at her church to produce an annual Children Sunday School manual for children.
Doifie BUOKORIBO
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Doifie BUOKORIBO
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Doifie Buokoribo is a media and political strategist, public relations professional, development consultant, and social and political activist. He has worked as a public servant, environmental human rights campaigner, and public affairs journalist.
He holds a Master of Arts degree in Development Studies (majoring in Politics of Alternative Development) from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Political and Administrative Studies from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Betty ABAH
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Betty ABAH
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Betty Abah is a women and children’s rights advocate. Over the years, she has carved a niche for herself for securing justice for the oppressed in the Nigerian society, mostly women and girls. She is also a journalist having practised in Nigeria namely at Newswatch and TELL Magazine and at the Rocky Mountain News as a Fellow of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (2006),
winning several local and international awards.
Abah founded the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE- HOPE), a non-profit working for the rights and development of marginalised young people, especially girls as a response to wide-spread violations of the rights of young people across Nigeria. She obtained a BA in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar (1999) and an MA in Literature in English from the University of Lagos (2012). She worked with the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria where she headed the women’s campaign desk and coordinated projects on women’s environmental rights across the Niger Delta region and the African sub-region. Abah’s journalism and later, activism, has won her several local and international awards including the Nigeria Media Merit Awards, Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Red Ribbon Awards for HIV Reporting, Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting etc. Her international awards and fellowships include the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships, USA, the John Knight Health Reporting Fellowship, USA, the Kaiser Family Foundation Fellowship, USA Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program Scholar (Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Public Health), Johns Hopkins University, Women of the World Unite Award, USA etc.
Over the years she has immersed her herself in fighting several social justice causes prominent among them being #BringBackOurGirls Ese Oruru, #JusticeForEjigbo3, #JusticeForOchanya. In October 2019, she edited a book documenting the unprecedented campaign (Ochanya). Her work in the engagement and development of thousands of young people in informal communities especially Makoko, the popular Lagos fishing community, has been the subject of several major local and international media reports and documentaries. Over the years, CEE- HOPE has spread its operational tentacles to Ogun, Plateau, Kaduna, Ebonyi, Benue and others.
In 2017 she was named one of the 100 most impactful Nigerians in the inaugural YNaija #WOKE100 Awards. The same year she gave a TEDx Talk at the TEDx Surulere women event in Lagos on teenage pregnancy. In 2019, Leading Ladies Africa listed her as one of ‘100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria’ and USA-Nigeria Law Group named her ‘Anti-Corruption Woman of the Year’ in their Courage Awards category. She was awarded a Visiting Fellow (Human Rights Defenders Fellowship) at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, England in the 2019/2020 session.
Abah has authored six books including Go Tell Our King (poetry), Sound of Broken Chains (poetry), and Mother of Multitudes (biography).
Kayode OGUNBUNMI
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Kayode OGUNBUNMI
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Kayode Ogunbunmi is a Nigerian journalist, development communications consultant and trainer. Ogunbunmi, publisher of Lagos-based CITYVOICE newspaper, holds a masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York; a diploma in International Cooperation and Development from the United Nations University, Tokyo and a Bachelor’s Degree In English Studies from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.
His articles have been published by several local and international media houses and organizations, including The Guardian, Lagos; Next; Telegraph of London, Aljazeera, Quartz and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He has taught journalism and writing at the College of New Rochelle, New York and the Lagos State University. Ogunbunmi has handled communications work, including train the trainer projects, for organizations such as the USAID, UNODC, the Ford Foundation, Aliko Dangote Foundation, Environmental Rights Action and the Media Support Centre.
