The Executive Director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Barbara Trionfi, was in Nigeria last week. She met President of the Senate, Senatoir Bukola Saraki in Abuja. She also met with the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, alongside some executives of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Lagos.

Trionfi said she was in Nigeria ahead of the IPI’s Abuja World Congress to engage with stakeholders and individuals who support journalists’ cause towards building a better-informed society. “The IPI Abuja World Congress is one of those opportunities that we felt will enable journalists across the world to share their ideas. It’s our desire to use our journalistic tools to bring forward our ideas which you as a person and your foundation will like to support,” she said.

 It will be recalled that the IPI is a global network of editors, journalists and media executives who defend media freedom and the free flow of news across the world.