The ICIR
Online Media - Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
The ICIR Employees
Olugbenga Adanikin
Head of Investigations, The International Centre for Investigative Reporting
The ICIR Details
The International Center for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, is an independent, nonprofit news agency that seeks to promote transparency and accountability through robust and objective investigative reporting. The ICIR's mission is to promote good governance and entrench democratic values by reporting, exposing, and combating corruption. The Center is envisioned to be a catalyst in encouraging and fostering a tradition of journalistic excellence through creative investigative reporting, online publishing, and training programs.Oluwafisan Bankale, Acting Chairman of the Board, is currently Policy Officer/Focal Point, ECOWAS Advisory Board on Small Arms and Light Weapons where he gives policy support in political affairs, peace and security. An accomplished journalist, he joined the Sketch Press Limited in 1985 as Senior Sub-Editor and later became Editor ('93-97) and then Editor-in-Chief/CEO ('99-'00). During the campaign to enthrone Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria in the 1990s, he provided technical and managerial leadership that contributed to making the Daily Sketch a major player in that epic struggle. He was a consultant to several agencies in the United Nations system for many years and worked for about five years as National Adviser to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).Bankale is a Chevening Scholar ('91) and an alumnus of the United Nations University International Leadership Academy in Jordan, University of Wales in the UK, University of Ibadan and University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University both in Nigeria. He is married to Oyetayo and they have four children.Credibility and integrity are the twin values that give news and journalists meaning in any society. A news organization without integrity cannot endure. In the same vein, a reporter whose integrity is doubtable cannot go far. At the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, where our mission is to use our work to promote accountability and transparency in
