External Consultant Terms of Reference
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The overall objective for the consultant is to facilitate regional networking strategy development support to an emerging Alliance of free expression organisations in Africa. It is expected that the process will result...
Freedom of Information Law Report (4)
Public Institutions Have No Power under the Law to Keep Mute when an FOI Request is Made to Them, Says Judge
In the Federal High Court
Holden at Lagos, Nigeria
On Friday the 22nd Day of February,...
National Broadcasting Commission Withdraws Radio Station’s Operating License
Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the regulatory body for broadcasting, on February 22, 2013, suspended indefinitely the Kano operating licence of Globe Broadcasting and Communications Limited, owners of Wazobia FM in Kano, Nigeria. Wazobia...
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,...
Freedom Of Information Law Report
FOI Act Cannot be Applied Retrospectively, Judge Rules
In the High Court of Lagos State
In the Ikeja Judicial Division
Before Justice Y.O. Idowu (Mrs.)
Sitting at Court No. 10, General Civil Division Ikeja
Wednesday, 14th March 2012
Suit No....
Nigerian Editor Shot Dead by Unknown Gunmen
Mr. Ikechukwu Udendu, the Editor of Onitsha-based monthly newspaper, Anambra News, was on January 12, 2013 shot dead by suspected assassins on his way home. He was killed on his way back to Ogidi...
