Media Rights Monitor

NBC Announces Plans to Issue 200 Broadcast Licences

Policemen Bar Radio Reporter from Covering Court Proceedings

Coalition Condemns Sowore’s Re-Arrest, Assault on Judiciary by DSS

Call for Sessions Proposals and Pre-registration for World Press Freedom Day Conference 2020

Reuters Institute Accepting Entries for Journalism Fellowships

World Press Photo Invites Entries for Digital Storytelling Contest

 Entries Open for 2020 Hillman Prizes 

Entries Open for Joan Shorenstein Center Fellowship at Harvard  

MRA’s Programme Director Urges Journalists to Use  FOI Act to Deepen Their Reporting

MRA Inducts NDLEA into ‘Enhanced FOI Hall of Shame’, for Non-Compliance with FOI Act

Journalists Arrested While Covering Religious Protest

UNGA Adopts 11th Resolution on Safety of Journalists

UN Appoints South Africa’s Anriette Esterhuysen to Chair IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group

Nigerians Condemn Bill that Prescribes Death Penalty for Hate Speech

African Commission Extends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Free Expression, 14 Other Special Mechanism by 6 Months

PPDC, MRA Urge Federal Government to Ensure Full Implementation of Open Contracting in Nigeria

Varsity Student Expelled for Alleged Defamation of Character Debunks Allegation

Bill to Regulate Social Media Passes First Reading in Senate

AFEX Condemns Killing of Congolese Journalist, Calls for Prosecution of Perpetrators

Radio Nigeria Staff, One Other Assassinated by Gunmen in Benue 

CWPPF Condemns Alarming Trend of Media Censorship in Nigeria as it Commemorates International Day to End Impunity

UNESCO Calls for Nominations for 2020 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Minister of Information Announces Government’s Plans to ‘Sanitise’ Social Media

Gunmen Abduct Journalist, Demand Ransom for His Release