From Newsroom to Novel: DISTORTION Series Take Centre Stage at PEN Nigeria’s World Press Freedom Day 2026
By Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Jimoh
By Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Jimoh
. . . When novels jail injustice and free speech bleeds.
Delta State’s inaugural World Book Day Festival 2026, organized by Lady Ejiro Umukoro, was lauded by Dr. Mininim Oseji and other dignitaries for promoting literacy, critical thinking, and intellectual growth through reading culture advocacy.
By Shulamite Owhoekevbo
Cultism remains a pervasive issue in Nigerian secondary schools, affecting both male and female students. However, the aggressive drive to recruit more young female students in secondary schools across Nigeria has hit its tipping point as John Maxwell in his behavioural book, “The Tipping Point” would describe a critical human phenomenon that has turned into a vice or menace.
Benita Wabawonku, an ND Campus Reporter writes more on the interview at TV360 with Lady E Ejiro Umukoro, the investigative journalist who uncovered the aggressive recruitment of young female students into cultism and gansterism.
Challenges the over-dependence on AI generated stories while inspiring the next generation of young female journalists to take on the baton of media reporting and storytelling based on high ethics and practices of journalism.