Nigeria, April 27 -- The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), through its social accountability project, UDEME, has wrapped up a two-day virtual project tracking and reporting workshop for the 2024 U-Monitors cohort.

This year, 30 student journalists and fresh graduates will be tracking and reporting capital projects across 25 states.

The focus is on exposing procurement infringements, empowering citizens at the grassroots and using the power of the media to impact changes at the grassroots, while holding government officials accountable.

The program will run for six months.

The virtual training exposed participants to government budgetary processes, data journalism, investigative reporting, feature and multimedia ...