Police Detain Newspaper Vendor for Undisclosed Reasons
On May 13, 2021, the Delta State Police Command arrested and detained a newspaper vendor, Mr Patrick Onwuaha, popularly known as Ocha, incommunicado, without disclosing the reasons for his arrest and detention.
Patrick who had...
Police Brutalises Journalists Covering Protest in Abuja
A cameraman with Arise Television, Francis Ogbonna and a journalist with Premium Times, Ebuka Onyeji, were on October 11, 2020 assaulted while covering a news conference where Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu...
Journalists Covering Edo State Governorship Election Attacked by Thugs
On September 19, 2020, two journalists, Samson Adenekan and Nathaniel Offel, who covered the Edo State governorship election at Ward 10 (Uzairue North East), Polling Unit 1 of Etsako West local government, were attacked...
Nigerian Journalist Remanded in Police Custody in spite of Court Bail
Mr. Ime Sunday Silas, an editor with the privately-owned Global Concord newspaper and publisher of the news website The Profile, has continued to be remanded in prison custody in Uyo, the capital of Akwa-Ibom...
MRA Condemns Continued Detention of Journalist, Calls for His Immediate Release
LAGOS, Monday, September 21, 2020: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the continued detention of Mr. Ime Sunday Silas, an editor with the privately-owned Global Concord newspaper and publisher of the news website, The...
Female Radio Presenter Abducted by Gunmen
A female radio presenter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria’s, Pacesetter FM, Umuahia, Ms Chinenye Iwuoha, was on May 4, 2020 abducted by gunmen near the Amakanma Estate in Umuahia, Umuahia South Government...
