Blessing Oladunjoye

Blessing Oladunjoye is the publisher of BONews Service, a specialized media platform that leverages on the digital space to promote the rights of Persons with Disabilities, Women, and Children. Oladunjoye is the Co-founder and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria (HRJN), a network of journalists who report human rights issues in Nigeria. Oladunjoye has a bias for gender and disability reporting, solutions journalism and fact-checking. She is a fellow of the Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative (SJAI), a member of the African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA), which is Africa’s largest fact checking network, and a fellow of the Code for Africa’s PesaCheck, International Fact-Checking Network Climate Change Fellowship Programme. She is a recipient of MEEDAN Check’s Global Program on Climate Change Fact-checking. She is also a fellow of the International Centre for Journalists and Code for Africa’s Religious Freedom Fellowship. In 2022, she received an Impact Award from the Rule of Law and Anti-corruption (R0LAC) Programme of the European Union in Nigeria and the British Council in recognition of her outstanding contributions to advancing rights and access to justice for women with disabilities in Nigeria, through inclusive journalism.