Freedom of Information Law Report – Vol 1.
Central Bank Governor’s salary not personal information under FOI Act, Says Federal High Court
In the Federal High Court of Nigeria
In the Abuja Judicial Division
Holden in Abuja
On Thursday, the 5th Day of July, 2012
Before the...
Nigerian Press Council Not Against Press Freedom – Press Statement
The attention of the Nigerian Press Council has been drawn to misleading reports based on a communiqué and advertorial by Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) that the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) is moribund,...
UNIC, MRA to Hold Seminar on Journalists’ Safety on World Press Freedom Day, 2013
Lagos, Tuesday, April, 30, 2013: The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Lagos and Media Rights Agenda (MRA) are organizing a joint seminar to discuss the safety of journalists as they mark this year’s...
Court Grants Bail to Two Journalists Remanded in Police Custody
Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Bello of Magistrate Court 17 Gyadi-Gadi in Kano State, on February 14, 2013, granted bail to Yakubu Musa Fagge and Mubarak Muhammad Sani of Wazobia FM as well as another person,...
FOI Act: Where His Lordship Got It Wrong
By Edetaen Ojo
In a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 was somehow defective because it provides in...
Freedom of Information Law Report
Disclosure of Information About a Contract Already Awarded Cannot Interfere with Rights of a Third Party
In the Federal High Court of Nigeria
In the Abuja Judicial Division
Holden at Abuja
On Friday the 1st Day of March,...
