By Charity Michael
An associate journalist and a storyteller at the Centre for Storytelling and Development Initiative (CSDI), Emmanuel Oluwadola has been selected for the 2025 Journalism for Liberty Fellowship.
The fellowship, organised by the Liberalist Centre, aims to equip mid-career journalists and media professionals with the skills to advance liberty, free markets, limited government and the rule of law through impactful and investigative storytelling.
Oluwadola will join other fellows selected from African countries including Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia to receive specialised training before embarking on their research and publishing projects.
Eric Mobu, the Director of Programme and Development of Liberalist Centre said the six-month programme, “Will include mentorship and strategic media engagements to enhance the visibility and influence of the fellows’ works. We are fostering a more informed and engaged society by equipping journalists with the resources and knowledge to report on key issues affecting liberty and economic development in Africa.”
60 fellows (20 from each participating country) were selected to participate in the programme.
As one of Africa’s leading pro-freedom fellowships, the Journalism for Liberty Fellowship seeks to build a new generation of journalists committed to promoting pro-freedom ideas, exposing government excesses and advocating for policies that protect individual liberties.
Since its inception, the fellowship has trained over 140 journalists, equipping them with the tools to produce high-quality investigative reports on pressing issues around excessive taxation and regulatory barriers, government inefficiencies and corruption, property rights, and economic freedom.
Oluwadola was the former Editor-in-Chief of Echo Media and 2024 President of the Nigeria Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Chapter.
He is a Fellow of the Africa Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP) Disabilities and Inclusion Fellowship (2023). Recently, he emerged as the winner of the Best Fact-Check of the Alfred Opubor Campus Journalism Award at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) Award Ceremony (2024).
He won the 2024 “Our Punch Years” National Book Essay Competition organised by Media Career Development Network in partnership with the Punch Newspaper.
