The Committee to Protect Journalists highlighted Nigeria and Brazil on Tuesday as among the worst offenders for violence against reporters — and failure to bring culprits...
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Federal Government has withdrawn the six count criminal charge of forgery slammed against two journalists and their employer, Leadership Newspaper Group...
The trial of two journalists with Leadership Newspapers kicked off before a federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday. They pleaded not guilty to the...
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Federal government on Tuesday intensified effort in the trial of Leadership newspapers’ journalists as it enlisted the services of a senior...
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged due process in the investigation of journalists for any offence. In a communiqué it issued at the...
A former Ogun State Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Tuesday in Lagos condemned what he called incessant harassment and intimidation of journalists by security agents in...
In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting on a presidential order, on Monday...
Media rights groups on Tuesday condemned the detention by police of Nigerian journalists who refused to disclose their source for a disputed story about the president....
What appears to be an era of media intolerance is gradually creeping in. The police yesterday detained four journalists with a national daily – Leadership. They...
Nigerian police have detained four journalists after they refused to disclose the source of an alleged presidential document that calls for sabotaging an opposition coalition, their...
Four journalists with LEADERSHIP Newspapers have reportedly been detained at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. The journalists, according to a statement by the Group Managing Director of...
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