Nigeria Ranks Poorly on Open Government Data
The Open Data Institute has ranked Nigeria a dismal 75th position out of 77 countries in its 2013 Global Report on Open Government Data (OGD). The report gives a country-by-country ranking and presents an...
Groups Call on NBC to Issue Community Radio Licenses
Civil society groups, community-based organizations, and members of grassroots communities have called on the broadcast regulatory body, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), to urgently initiate the issuance of community radio licenses to communities in...
Government Agency Bans Airing of Documentary on Poverty
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The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has banned the exhibition, distribution and airing of a 30-minute documentary film entitled ‘Fueling Poverty’ saying its...
Wole Soyinka Media Centre Holds 2013 Media Lecture Series
The Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) holds its 5th media lecture series on July 31, 2013. The theme of this year’s lecture is The Freedom of Information Act and the Dictatorship of...
An Intelligence Agency’s Defiance of Domestic Law is Tantamount to Arbitrariness, Says ECHR –...
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section)
Strasbourg
25 June 2013
Sitting as a Chamber composed of:
Guido Raimondi, President,
Peer Lorenzen, Dragoljub Popović,
András Sajó,
Nebojša Vučinić,
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Helen Keller, judges,
and Stanley Naismith, Section Registrar,
In the case...
Detained journalists arraigned on charges of forgery
On April 16, 2013, Mr. Tony Amokeodo and Mr. Chibuizor Ukaibe, journalists with the Leadership newspaper who were detained by the Police on April 15, were charged before a Federal High Court in Abuja,...
