Journalist Assaulted, Arrested and Detained While Covering Police Raid on BDC Operators in Abuja
On February 21, 2024, Ms Kasarahchi Aniagolu, a reporter with The Whistler newspaper, was assaulted, arrested and detained by the anti-violent crime unit of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) while covering a raid by...
Thugs Brutalise Journalist Covering Governorship and House of Assembly Elections
Mr. Ashiru Umar, a journalist working for Premier Radio in Kano, was on March 18, 2023 brutalised by thugs while covering the governorship and state house of assembly elections at Gidan Galadima, Galadanci Primary...
Newspaper Correspondent alleges threat of arrest
On April 14, 2014, Sebastine Ebhuomhan, the Edo State Chief Correspondent of the “National Mirror” newspaper, went into hiding alleging that the Nigerian Army was planning to arrest and detain him indefinitely.
Ebhuomhan disclosed this...
Radio presenter shot and kidnapped
On March 13, 2014 at about 2am local time, unknown gunmen broke into the residence of a radio presenter, Mr. Anthony Akatakpo, shot him in the leg and took him to unknown destination. Akatakpo is...
Journalist Goes into Hiding, Alleges Threat to Life for Criticising Police on Tiktok
Ms Rukayya Aliyu-Jibia, a journalist who works for a Katsina-based Hausa language television station, Tambari Hausa TV, has gone into hiding and raised alarm over an alleged threat to her life. Ms Aliyu-Jibia had...
MRA Accuses Federal Government of Losing its Way, Urges it to Abandon its Preoccupation...
Lagos, Wednesday, February 5, 2020: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today accused the Federal Government of hopelessly losing its way, and called on it to abandon its fruitless preoccupation with controlling social media content in...
UNESCO Summit Urges African Media to Harness AI for Ethical Development
A summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the media, co-organized by UNESCO and the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB-UAR), has called on African media...
