The Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Emmanuel Emeruwa, has vehemently denied allegations that he expelled a journalist from Enyimba FM during a...
Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, is currently leading journalists and civil rights activists in a protest at the Nigeria Police...
Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, has ordered an immediate probe into an allegation of assault of a journalist, Seun Falomo, as well...
Four days after the abduction of Mr. Segun Olatunji, a journalist and editor of FirstNews, members of his family have written a Save Our Soul (SOS)...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday, ordered the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF) Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to re-open...
A Lagos-based broadcast journalist, Adeniyi Taiwo Kunnu, has raised the alarm over alleged threats to his life and members of his family by unknown persons for...
Police operatives in Zamfara have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a reporter with the Voice of Nigeria (VON) in the state, Hamisu...
The Senate Correspondent of the Tribune Newspaper, Tijani Adeyemi, on Wednesday, died in one of the National Assembly shuttle buses. According to reports, the Tribune reporter...
The police in Zamfara State have arrested two brothers for alleged complicity in the murder of a journalist with the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Hamisu Danjigba,...
A journalist with the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Hamisu Danjigba, who was declared missing by the Zamfara State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ),...
Police on Tuesday arraigned a 32-year-old journalist, Haruna Salisu Mohammed, at the Chief Magistrate Court Three in Bauchi State for allegedly blackmailing Governor Bala Mohammed. Mohammed,...
The Cameroonian security agents have arrested the owner of Douala-based Vision 4 TV, Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, and 27 others including senior police officers in connection with...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has lamented the spike in the number of journalists killed which stood at 67, with many more incarcerated within this...
A freelance journalist who, in partnership with Ripples Nigeria, did a special report on environmental degradation and child labour has reported receiving threats from unknown persons....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has raised the alarm over a myriad of challenges ranging from “intimidation and assassination” Nigerian journalists face despite being critical...
A journalist, Agba Jalingo, on Monday regained his freedom after a Federal High Court, Calabar, dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges brought against him....
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has vowed to punish a prominent female journalist, Sedef Kabas, for allegedly insulting him on television and on social...
A few days after a photojournalist, Margarito Martinez, was found fatally shot outside his home in Tijuana in the Mexican border city, another journalist, Lourdes Maldonado...
A prominent female journalist in Turkey, Sedef Kabas, has been arrested and detained for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on national television and on Twitter....
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed January 19, 2022, for hearing in a N50 million suit filed by a reporter, Mr Eniola Daniel,...
A journalist with Ripples Nigeria, Arinze Chijioke has been shortlisted for the prestigious West Africa Media Excellence Awards, WAMECA. Chijioke was shortlisted for the award, which...
Security operatives on Sunday arrested a journalist, with The PUNCH Newspapers, Solomon Odeniyi, while he was covering an event at the Dunamis Church Headquarters in the...
An American journalist working in Myanmar has been arrested and detained as he was trying to fly out of the country which has seen mass protest...
A Palestinian journalist, Yusef Abu Hussein, has been killed when his house in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood was struck by Israeli missiles. Hussein, a broadcaster for...
A French journalist, who was kidnapped in Mali in April, has cried out in a video posted on social media, asking for help from the French...
The abducted journalist with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Port Harcourt, Mrs. Chidiebere Onyia, has regained her freedom. Onyia, a mother of three, was abducted at...
Gunmen who abducted the Abuja correspondent of The PUNCH, Okechukwu Nnodim, have demanded N10 million ransom for his release. Nnodim was kidnapped by a five-man gang...
The Lagos State government on Thursday sought forgiveness from a journalist, Benjamin Anaja who was brutalised by one of its law enforcement agencies, Kick Against Indiscipline...
A local journalist, Ilyas Dayee, was killed after a small bomb attached to his car went off in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. This is coming after...
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode said he had regretted his attack on a journalist during a recent press conference in Cross River State. The former...
Amnesty International has described as unlawful the arrest and detention of a journalist for criticising the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The rights group...
The Nigeria Police Force Friday charged a journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi, aka Oba Akewi, for allegedly causing “annoyance and hatred” for the Minister of Information and Culture,...
The Federal Government has warned security agencies to stop harassing journalists and other essential duty workers as they enforce the COVID-19 curfew imposed by President Muhammadu...
All working journalists and other media staff in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been advised to use their...
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The death of a journalist who has been raising awareness on the dreaded Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been confirmed by local...
The jail term of popular journalist and publisher of a dissident newspaper in Morocco, Taoufik Bouachrine, has been lengthened by a court in the city of...
Witnesses lined up to testify against a journalist, Agba Jalingo in his ongoing terrorism and treasonable felony trial in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, would...
A court in Morocco has sentenced a 28-year old journalist, Hajar Raissouni to a year in prison for pre-marital sex and having an abortion. The pen-pusher...
A UN rights expert has concluded, after citing credible evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of journalist Jamal...
A Mexican reporter, Francisco Romero has been killed in the town of Playa del Carmen. He had been under official government protection, Aljazeera reports. The body...
Renowned international investigative Cameroonian journalist, Simon Ateba, has explained why he was recently banned from Facebook. The Washington DC based editor-in-chief of online news website, Today...
The Edo state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that Governor Godwin Obaseki ‘gifted’ some journalists in the state with the sum of...
Zafar Achakzai, a journalist in Pakistan has been arrested after being charged with allegedly posting illegal material on social media platform, Facebook. Reports say Zafar was...
In celebrating the 2017 World Press Freedom day, African Journalists have been charged to put conscience first in discharging their duties as the fourth estate of...
Veteran Mexican reporter Maximino Rodriguez Palacios has been shot and killed in the northeastern part of Mexico. Palacios who covers the police beat “was shot and...
A journalist working for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper has been jailed following the orders of a Turkish court for allegedly spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’ and inciting hatred....
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ), a Cairo-based organisation, are demanding the release of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein. Hussein’s detention was extended by Egyptian authorities...
The detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has now been extended by Egyptian authorities by 15 days pending investigation to the dismay of friends, colleagues...
42-year-old British-Algerian journalist, Mohamed Tamalt who has been in coma for more than three months after he embarked on a hunger strike in protest against his...
