Extractive Industries: EITI, UB Synergize For Better Media Reporting

Organized by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) under its Corporate Social Responsibility prism, the training focused on the “Communication Challenges for the students of Journalism and Mass Com­ munication (JMC) at the University of Buea. While chairing the seminar, the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Ma­ nagement Sciences at the University of Buea, Prof. Emmanuel Yenshu high­ lighted the relevance of the training, stating that the student journalists and communicators would be equipped with skills to report accurately and better communicate on the extractive industries. The training, the University don stated, falls within the concept of professionalization which is a fun­ damental hallmark of the Higher Edu­ cation policy in Cameroon. On his part, the EITI Team leader for the seminar, Dr Blasius Ngome em­ phasized that EITI Committee holds that most Cameroonians do not know about EITI and that journalism and Mass Communication students are yet to understand the depth of what EITI is all about. It is on this premise that the seminar was organized to enable future journalists and mass commu­ nication personnel who are vectors of information to be trained. “We are expecting more knowledge and regular reporting after the seminar on the Extractive Indust...