Union of Campus Journalists at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, commenced training for her sixteen new Journos on sunday, April 26, 2026 as the Union prepares to resume full scale activities after years of silence.

UCJFUOYE, a subset of Campus Reporter is an active student-led body dedicated to journalistic integrity, accountability, training and reporting campus news and community related news across FUOYE campuses and its environment. It was established in September 2018 at Federal university, Oye-Ekiti, emerging as the umbrella body for the campus journalists from various departments in the institution. As a vibrant community that it is, UCJFUOYE built a solid foundation at the training.

Introduction before the commencement of the training

The training commenced some minutes past 3:00 PM by the President of the Union, Ayeni Kehinde . Ayeni Kehinde commenced the training by introducing the union to the new members. There, he addressed the Union on how vibrant the community was before the long silence and what it is looking forward to after the silence. He also introduced the existing structure UCJ FUOYE had and its affiliated organisations like founding establishments, Center for Journalism and Innovation Development (CJID).

The President went on to discuss the responsibilities and risks of being a good journalist: the ones that can award you, and the ones that can bring harm.

The first training Session: how to identifying various journalistic articles

Glory Adelowo , the General Secretary of the Union took the first training session on identifying various journalistic articles and buzz words in journalism. Here, she explained the various journalistic articles: news story, featured story, breaking news, investigative news, and Opinion Editorial. Where she explains the different features of each and their uniqueness. Glory Adelowo also emphasized on the importance of fact-checking before attempting publication. Also, laid emphasis on practicing ethical journalism. addressing pseudo rights and requesting for FOI — Freedom of information — when necessary. She concluded spotlighting the basic terminologies used in journalism—buzz words in journalism — which includes but not limited to: deathknock, exclusive, spike, byline, propaganda, sensationalization, FOI— freedom of information, amongst others.

Second training session: The basic collaborative journalistic tools.

Ayeni Kehinde, again, led the members on how to use basic tools for news drafts and basic facts checking using centring on Google workspace such as: Google docs, Google sheet, form, Google lens, and Gmail. The training was highly practical and interactive with trainees engaged in teaching actively.

Members Reactions

The members were with holistic attention seen with their jotters and pens, noting down the key points of the sessions. Olufunmilayo, a 100-level trainee student, expressed her satisfaction rating the impact of the training by out-scaling ratio

“ I learnt new journalistic terms and the types of story, so, I will rate this training 100/10 based on the knowledge I gained." Olufunmilayo said.

Also, Haliyah, a 400-level student trainee also also scored the impact of the training perfect l, and further expressed her take home from the extensive training

"My rating is 5/5. I learnt how to be a news writer and I was advised on how to become more knowledgeable by reading news from different sites.”

Capacity Building Ends with Impact

The training session with an open interactive session where questions were freely asked and grievances were addressed helping the adjust the training into their newly found environment and trainees were tasked with their first assessment to come up with a news report of the meeting.

The training proceeding is scheduled for Sunday May 3rd, 2026.