The Department of State Services (DSS) has released Adejuwon Soyinka, the former editor of BBC Pidgin Service and current West African editor for The Conversation Africa,...
A security operative attached to Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir have threatened to ‘deal with‘ journalists working around the Governor’s Office and Government House....
The International Press Centre (IPC), on Wednesday, condemned the violent assault on News Central reporters and cameramen by thugs at Freedom Park, Ojota, during recent hunger...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to “apply the...
From traumatic memories journalists recounted how they suffered life threatening travails in the course of their duties from Nigerian authorities. They label the country as one...
Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, expressed heartfelt gratitude following the release of two Kaduna-based journalists who were abducted from their homes on...
Two journalists abducted alongside their family members by criminals in Kaduna State have regained their freedom. The victims were abducted by gunmen at their homes on...
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, on Monday, visited the troubled Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state four days after the...
A union on Thursday urged all journalists in Portugal to join a one-day strike over low wages and job insecurity. The strike action is Portugal’s first...
Fellows of the MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) Cohort 2 recently visited South Africa as part of their six months fellowship. It was also a veritable...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commended Nigerian journalists for their immense contributions to the country’s socio-political and economic development. Lawan gave the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, boasted that his administration had protected the rights of journalists and media practitioners in the past eight years. Buhari who made...
Letter bombs have been sent to no fewer than five journalists working in TV and radio stations in Ecuador, one of which exploded without causing serious...
Security forces in Iran have arrested three female journalists for covering the nationwide protests in the country. The protests started in September last year following the...
The International Press Centre (IPC) has condemned the harassment of the Publisher of an online platform, WikkiTimes, Haruna Mohammed and one of his reporters, Idris Kamal,...
The International Press Centre (IPC) has expressed concern over the renewed wave of attacks on journalists in Nigeria, especially those covering political activities. The IPC expressed...
The International Press Center (IPC) is set to launch two documentaries and a publication on attacks on journalists, in Abuja on Wednesday May 11, 2022. The...
Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a non-governmental organisation has organised a workshop to train about 23 female campus journalists on the concept of digital rights and...
The United States Government through the US Consulate General in Lagos, in collaboration with the West Africa Broadcast and Media Academy (WABMA) and Enugu Literacy Society...
The seeming gag on press freedom hit new lows on Thursday, with the summoning of some journalists from Channels TV over alleged anti-Buhari interviews during a...
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA), has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Abuja, to compel the Federal Government...
The human rights organisation, Amnesty International has slammed the decision of the Federal Government to restrict journalists that covered the court trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader...
Five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and four journalists have filed a suit against the Federal Government at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of...
The Senate President of the National Association of Universities Students (NAUS), Comrade Ibrahim Muhammad Lawal, on Monday, called for the investigation of the Vice Chancellor of...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to publicly condemn attacks on journalists and media organisations in the country. SERAP made...
The immediate past President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has called for the empowerment of Nigerian journalists to help tell stories that will aid the...
“Omo, wetin dey shele. What’s gwan man?” “Helloooo. Are you okay?” “Yeah, yeah, my bro” “Can you speak English? I don’t get your drift. All these...
Nigeria on March 2, got delivered its first batch of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, becoming the third country in Africa to get the shots through the COVID-19 Vaccines...
The House of Representatives, on Monday, February 15, deliberated the standards for journalists across the country, seeking to raise the minimum qualification to a bachelor’s degree...
The attacks on journalists, nay the Nigerian media, struck a horrific note last Thursday, November 5, 2020, with the cold-blooded murder of a young journalist by...
The Oyo State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists has ordered newsmen in the state to boycott a proposed visit by Femi Fani-Kayode, a former...
Journalists have been asked to boycott a planned press conference by the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. The order was in response to the recent...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned the imposition of N5 million fine on Nigeria Info radio stationby the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over an...
Journalists and security personnel covering the activities of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi and his government meetings have been asked to undergo COVID-19 tests. The governor...
Tech giants, Microsoft has fired no fewer than 50 journalists under its employ after it decided to replace them with artificial intelligence robots- a move triggered...
Report by an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), The Press Emblem Campaign, has revealed that COVID-19 has killed 55 journalists in 23 countries across Africa, Europe, the...
The Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ebonyi State, has declared that it would henceforth boycott all activities by the Ebonyi State...
The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has denied he banned two journalists for life from covering and reporting state functions. The governor was heavily criticised...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) Wednesday condemned “the blatant intimidation, harassment, and attacks on journalists and media houses by the Ebonyi State governor, David...
The Presidency on Sunday asked journalists who covered the burial of Mallam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, to proceed on...
The head of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau in a latest nine minutes video has mocked the Nigeria president, Muhammadu Buhari, and threatened the...
The United States Government said on Saturday night that 250 journalists were jailed throughout the world last year, with Turkey, China, and Egypt among the worst...
The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Tonye Isenah, was on Monday impeached. It was gathered that he was replaced with a lawmaker representing Southern...
One of the least enviable tasks of journalists in the US must be reporting on how the public trusts their work less and less. A 2018...
An Istanbul court on Wednesday acquitted the Turkey representative for Reporters Without Borders RSF as well as two other campaigners for press freedom on trial for...
The Al Jazeera media network on Sunday suspended two journalists responsible for a video claiming that the extent of the Holocaust was being misrepresented by Jews....
The Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, has condemned attacks on ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, media, observers and other electoral...
Some journalists on election duty during the supplementary polls in Kano State escaped being lynched by a mob on Saturday. The incident happened at Suntulma Primary...
The Nigerian Army has given reasons as to why it invaded the Maiduguri and Abuja offices of Media Trust, publishers of Daily Trust newspapers and arrested...
Clerk to the Senate, Mr Nelson Ayewoh, has moved against cameramen and photojournalists covering the Red Chamber. To this end, the National Assembly management has reduced...
