Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- Nigeria's independent fact-checking platform, Dubawa, will on Friday graduate fellows in its 2020 cohort.

The fellowship would wind down in an end of fellowship event and award dinner slated to hold at Ibeto Hotels, Abuja, on Friday, February 26.

Under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), the outgoing cohort is the second since the platform initiated the fellowship in 2019.

The six-month fellowship, inspired by the need to tackle the menace of misinformation and disinformation in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and beyond, started in July 2020 and came to an end in January 2021.

The fellowship was organised for journalists in new media platforms (online blogs), radio and TV st...