Nigeria, May 12 -- Mariam Ileyemi, a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, has been selected for the 2026 Kwame Karikari Fact-checking and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Fellowship alongside 12 other journalists from across West Africa.

Ms Ileyemi emerged as one of the successful applicants selected from entries submitted across Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia. The fellowship, organised by DUBAWA, aims to strengthen verification, accountability journalism, and efforts to combat misinformation and information disorder across the sub-region.

Other fellows selected for the programme are Opeyemi Lawal (Nigeria), Alfred Koroma (Sierra Leone), Aisha Ayanna (The Gambia), Clinton Yeboah (Ghana), David Solomon (Sierra Leone), Eric Marg...