Football Fans Attack Journalists at Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan
Angry football fans attacked three journalists: Atinuke Esan, Tobi Adepoju, and Ayo Animasaun, who went to cover the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match between the Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) and Remo United...
WIPO Adopts Treaty for Visually Impaired, Disabled Persons
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on June 27, 2013 adopted a landmark new treaty that boosts access to books for the benefit of hundreds of millions of people who are blind, visually impaired...
Human Rights Court Orders Intelligence Agency to Release Information
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the Intelligence Agency of the Republic of Serbia to release information to the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) on the number of persons, who...
Government Awards Internet Contract to Spy on Nigerians’ Internet Communication
Nigeria’s government has reportedly awarded an internet surveillance contract to Elbit Systems, an Israeli firm for US$40 million ostensibly to aid intelligence gathering and national security. The secretly awarded contract is ostensibly to spy on...
SSS Detains Journalist
The State Security Service (SSS) detained an Ogun State Correspondent of The Punch newspaper, Mr. Segun Olatunji, on Monday May 27, 2013. Mr. Olatunji had gone to the SSS Command office on the invitation of its state...
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,...
MRA Rejects Government’s Attempt to Regulate Social Media ‘Through the Back...
LAGOS, Tuesday, June 14, 2022: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Federal Government to discontinue its attempt to adopt a “Code of...
