‘Report Women: Make It Happen’ was the theme of a share-fair amongst journalists held on Friday 13 March 2015 to commemorate the ‘International Women’s Day’.

The event was organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and its partner the Netherlands Embassy to contribute to improving the quality, quantum and perhaps impact of reportage on girls and women and to better mainstream gender into news reporting.

The forum brought together journalists and members of non-governmental organisations to reflect on the challenges facing Nigerian girls and women. The idea was to build the capacity of participants while lending a voice to the theme of the 2015 United Nations International Women’s Day – Make It Happen.

At the meeting, five journalists who were commissioned by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism to investigative and publish stories on girls and women issues ranging from widowhood, to Female Genital Mutilation and to Human Trafficking, had opportunity to share their experiences with colleagues.

The journalists, Simon Ateba of The News; Abiose Adams-Adelaja of International Centre for Investigative Reporting; Tosin Oladosu-Adebowale of World Pulse; Bamgbose Temiloluwa of Flair Nigeria and Isioma Madike of New Telegraph are among thirty-two reporters given small grants to do investigate reports under the report women project which started in 2014.

Participants at the Report Women: Make It Happen share-fair worked together to highlight strategies to improve and increase the reportage of girls and women in Nigeria and committed to doing same.