A total of 60 Kaduna Journalists and affiliates media influencers have been trained on the use of modern digital media tools to enhanced peace journalism practice in Kaduna State and other parts of Northern region.

Similarly, 30 of those trained includes youths, comprising of influencers, bloggers and others, also trained around the modern digital media tools to also enhanced peace in the state and the region.

The three days intensive training workshop held between Monday and yesterday in Kaduna was funded by Germany Cooperation, the Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Giz), and implemented together with partners by MICT and also the LIDA network.

Speaking to journalists yesterday, a trainer who is a conflict and security researcher, Murtala Abdullahi, said the training was basically organised to built the capacity of journalists and equiped them with knowledge to maximized best use of modern digital media tools.

Abdullahi added that journalists were trained to, “learn more in terms of the modern digital tools for journalism, how they can make best use of it, either for telling stories and also for countering misinformation and disinformation.