In two-year 2005, the International Press Centre, Lagos leading other partners in the Media for Democracy Group, applied for and got support from the European Commission in Nigeria to conduct some Media Monitoring Activities on anti-corruption monitoring and media advocacy project through a grant support of N15 Million Naira (88, 382: 00 Euro) by the European Commission.

It is expected that the project would add value to anti-corruption campaign and strengthen media capacity to engage in anti-corruption advocacy in Nigeria through such methodologies as:
Exposure, monitoring and follow up on at least five major anti-corruption cases being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)
Improvement of media knowledge of corruption reporting
Documentation, publication and distribution of journals and books on the monitoring exercise and anti-corruption initiatives in general.

Activities of the project include:
Selection and Training of eight monitors
Monitoring of EFCC’s prosecution of three selected anti-corruption cases (Tafa Balogun, the former Inspector General of Police; Fred Ajudua and others and Mohammed Bulama, former Managing Director of Bank of the North) and wider corruption issues in the media
Training workshop for journalists and anti-corruption activists on corruption reporting and use of media in advocacy against corruption
Publication of bi-monthly anti-corruption summary (reports, analyses, messages) in the print media
Publication of a quarterly journal, “Index on Corruption” to focus on developments in tracking and curbing of corruption