Media Group to Organize Regional Conference on FoE in 2013
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) plans to hold a regional Conference on Freedom of Expression in Africa to explore the challenges faced by the media in Lusophone countries in Africa and other parts...
Foundation Sponsors UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
The Board of Trustees of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation on December 11, 2012, made a contribution of $ 25,000 to sponsor the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2013.
The Foundation based in Finland promotes...
CIMA Releases New Report on Coordination and Collaboration in Media Development
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) in Washington D.C has announced the release of its latest report, Working in Concert: Coordination and Collaboration in International Media Development, written by Walter Dean; a veteran broadcast...
Civil Society Groups Recommend Administrative Sanctions for Non-Compliance with FOI Act
Civil society groups in Lafia, Nasarawa state, have recommended that the Attorney-General of the Federation and the relevant committees of the National Assembly should put in place administrative sanctions to make public institutions comply...
UNESCO Proposes Activities to Celebrate World Radio Day 2013
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has proposed a number of activities for stakeholders to adopt in celebrating the second World Radio Day on February 13, 2013.
To commemorate the day, UNESCO...
State Security Agency Detains Two Journalists for Undisclosed Reasons
On December 24, 2012 at about 4.00am Mr. Musa Mohamed Awwal and Mr. Aliyu Saleh, two journalists with Al-Mizan, the Hausa language newspaper published in Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, were arrested and detained by heavily armed...
