October 11, 2021

Entries Open for 2021 Edition of AIPS Sport Media Awards

UNESCO Launches Artificial Intelligence Global Policy Portal with Partners

Republic of Korea to Host 2021 OGP Global Summit

Divisional Police Officer Batters JAMZ FM General Manager

Poynter’s IFCN, Facebook Grant Opens for Fact-Checkers Fighting Climate Misinformation

AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism Opens for Entries

Applications Open for Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photo Contest

Registration Opens for Eighth Global Fact-Checking Summit

NIPC Clinches First Position in the 2021 National FOI Compliance Ranking

Freedom Online Coalition Welcomes Luxembourg as its 34th Member

Nigerian Government Approves Policy for Deployment of 5G Network, Tasks NCC on Speedy Implementation

WSCIJ Invites Entries for the 16th Edition of its Investigative Reporting Awards

UNESCO Launches Global Toolkit on Freedom of Expression for Judicial Actors

South Africa’s Khadija Patel Elected IPI Executive Board Chair, Nigeria’s Raheem Adedoyin Elected Member

International Literacy Day Conference Harps on Literacy, Digital Skills for Human-Centred Recovery

NBC DG Urges Newly Licensed Broadcasters to Comply with Broadcasting Code

Coroner Orders Contempt Proceedings Against Hospital Director for Failure to Produce Records on Late Journalist

MRA Calls for Robust Access to Information to Address Nigeria’s Environmental Crises

MRA Joins Global Call for International Agreement to Check ‘Unprecedented Dangers’ posed by AI

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of Nigeria

MRA Calls for Protection of Free Expression, Civic Space on International Democracy Day

MRA Condemns Escalating Attacks on Journalists, Urges International Pressure to End Impunity

Journalist Files N100 million Suit Against Police for Alleged Unlawful Arrest and Detention

Court Fixes November 21 for Judgment in Journalist’s FOI Suit Against FIIRO

Political Thugs Attack Journalists Covering Edo State Local Council By-Election

Secret Reporters Publisher Arrested in Abuja, Flown to Delta State

Journalist Arrested on Governor’s Order for Sharing Video Exposing Hospital Decay

Leadership Online Editor Arrested, Remanded Over Report of Fraud by Councillor

Operatives of Lagos State Building Control Agency Brutalise, Detain Blueprint Photojournalist

Project Syndicate, Others to Hold Press Play Prague Film Festival in October

AMCRON to Hold 5th International Conference, AGM in Lagos, Calls for Papers

Ekiti Police Detain FIJ’s Senior Reporter Who Honoured Invitation

Kano Journalist Lured by Police, Detained for Facebook Post

Mr Ejike Ogbonna, Publisher of First Citizen newspaper

Newspaper Publisher Detained for a Month, Granted Bail on Strict Conditions

Journalist Arrested While Covering Shiite Maulid Procession in Abuja

Police Invite, Detain Osun Defender Editor Over Source of News Report

Policeman Threatens Citizen Journalist’s Life for Exposing Extortion

Coroner Adjourns Inquest into Pelumi Onifade’s Death to October 7 for Medical Records

Federal Government Files Criminal Defamation Charges Against Sowore, Social Media Companies

Police Harass, Detain Media Room Hub Publisher over Coverage of Land Dispute

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