Police Threaten WikkiTimes Editor, Wife, Others for Exposing Terrorism Funding, Illegal Mining in Niger...
Mr. Yakubu Mohammed, editor of WikkiTimes and author of an investigative report revealing terrorism funding and illegal mining in Niger State, has been placed on the police watch list while his wife, colleagues, and...
Polytechnic Rector Demands N100m Compensation from Reporter for Defamation
Dr. Justina Anjiode Kotso, the Rector of the Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia in Nassarawa State, has filed a lawsuit against Rabiu Omaku, a reporter for Universal Reporters, claiming N100 million as damages for...
Police Attack Journalists Covering Kano Election Petition Tribunal
On September 20, 2023, officers of the Nigerian Police Force attacked two journalists: Mr. Salim Ibrahim of Daily Trust newspaper, and Mr. Zahraddeen Lawal, BBC Hausa reporter, who were in the court to cover...
Journalist Arrested Over Possession of Laptop
On September 13, 2023, Mr. Pelumi Salako, a freelance journalist working with Al Jazeera, the Qatari state-owned international news television network based in Doha and operated by the Al Jazeera Media Network. was arrested by officers...
Road Safety Officials Beat up Journalist for Capturing their Activities on Video
Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on September 18, 2023, attacked Mr. Mustapha Usman, a journalist with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), near the Corps’ Zone 7 office in Abuja....
Journalist Declared Missing, Later Found Dead
Mr. Yusuf Mubarak, a 27-year-old journalist and third-year student of Nassarawa State University, who went missing on the night of September 13, 2023, was found dead on September 16, 2023, along Unity Road, Ilorin,...
FES Nigeria, MRA Convene Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable on the Safety of Journalists...
The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Nigeria and Media Rights Agenda (MRA) are convening a two-day roundtable on the Safety of Journalists in Nigeria in...
