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...
Sports Publisher Alleges Threat to Life by Suspected ‘DSS Operative’
Mr. Olukayode Thomas, the publisher of 234sportsng.com, a sports journalism platform operated by a Lagos-based multimedia company, SEEM Nigeria Limited, is alleging a threat to his life by someone suspected to be an operative...
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....
Journalists Covering Primaries by Splinter Party Group Arrested, Detained
On May 23, 2022, four media workers, Sunny Ohioze of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and his cameraman; Deborah Coker of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), and Ogbomo Osamuyi of Independent Television (ITV) were...
Journalist Arrested for Criticising a State Governor
Mr. Sunday Egena Odeh, the State House correspondent of Peoples Daily, an Abuja-based newspaper was on April 30, 2021 at about 5.30pm arrested at the AYA roundabout in Abuja by officers of the Nigeria...
Female Reporter Assaulted by Aide to Governorship Candidate
On November 4, 2022, a female reporter with The Guardian newspapers, Ms Kehinde Olatunji, was assaulted by Theophilus Akorede, an aide to the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State,...
Media Support Groups Mark 2024 World Press Freedom Day, Urge Governments...
LAGOS, Thursday, May 2, 2024: Four human rights and media support organizations have called on Federal and State Governments to take urgent measures to...
