The media was an integral component of the just concluded Youth Deliver the Future Conference held in Abuja Nigeria from the 27 - 29, 2008. It was a theatre of interaction between journalists, researchers, policy makers and general participants. The conference which had more than 650 registered participants from about 32 countries across the globe kicked off with a pre-conference training for journalists. Then there was the conference Newsletter developed by a team from the 11 journalists trained at an intensive 2-day training organized by Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in collaboration with Development Communications Network, Lagos. It had as trainers Erin Sines of the PRB, Akin Jimoh, Development Communications Network, and Josephine Kamara, Internews Network. There were a number of resource persons drawn from the conference participants. The Conference had a wide flavour of media presence drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and some others representing different foreign media.
Nnenna Ike
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