NDDC Sued for Wrongful Denial of Information over Scholarship Grants
Mr Mark Lenu, a journalist, with Wish 99.5 FM, Port Harcourt, has taken the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and its Managing Director to the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt asking the...
Federal High Court Rules FOI Act Does Not Apply to Rivers State
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has ruled that the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act does not apply to Rivers State, having not been domesticated or enacted by the Rivers...
ECOWAS Court Dismisses Nigerian Government’s Motion to Strike out Suits over Twitter Ban, Sets...
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has dismissed a motion by Federal Government of Nigeria seeking to prevent it from delivering its judgment and to strike out the four consolidated suits filed by Media...
Court Sets EiE, Others’ N5billion Suit Against Telecoms Companies for Hearing on June 16
Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed hearing in a fundamental rights class-action suit filed by Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, Media Rights Agenda (MRA), and Paradigm Initiative (PIN)...
MRA, Others Win Suit over Twitter Ban as ECOWAS Court Rules Nigerian Government’s Action...
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ruled that the indefinite suspension of access to Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government in June 2021 was unlawful and violated the provisions of the African...
MRA Files Suit to Compel Federal Government to Investigate Attacks Against Journalists, Punish Perpetrators
LAGOS, Monday, August 2, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has filed a suit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to declare that the failure of the Federal Government to take effective measures to...
IPI Says Journalists in Nigeria, Somalia, Zimbabwe Faced Increased Attacks in...
Attacks against independent media in Somalia, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria intensified in October 2022, as journalists in the three countries faced numerous threats to their...
