CWPPF Condemns Attacks on Media and Investigative Journalists in Nigeria
The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has condemned the growing trend of attacks on journalists and media houses which have published investigative reports about corruption allegedly perpetrated by government officials, saying...
NSCDC Officials Brutalise The Punch Correspondent in Imo State
On December 6, 2021 operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) brutalised Mr. Chidiebube Okeoma, the Imo State correspondent of The Punch newspaper at the Federal Girls Government College in Owerri,...
Editor-in-Chief Questioned Over Story Exposing Corruption in the Police
On December 13, 2021, Mr. Fisayo Soyombo, an investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), was interrogated for about seven hours by officers of the Nigerian Police after he honoured...
Journalists Barred from Covering Ondo Speaker’s Trial on Corruption Charges
Journalists in Ondo State were barred from accessing the State High Court located at the Olokuta Correctional Centre in Akure, the state capital, to cover the November 30, 2021 trial of the Speaker of...
Journalist Covering #EndSARS Arrested, Arraigned Before a Magistrate
Operatives of the Osun State Police Command on October 21, 2021 arrested a journalist with Daily Post newspaper, Mr. Sikiru Obarayese, in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, during the #EndSARS memorial protest and later...
Journalist Arrested for Reporting Christian Persecution in Nigeria
On November 4, 2021, Mr. Luka Binniyat, a freelance journalist and spokesman for the people of Southern Kaduna, was arrested by police officers in Barnawa in Kaduna State over an article he wrote in...