The Partnership for Media and Democracy in Nigeria (PAMED) has carefully studied the content of the Frivolous Petitions (Prohibition, etc.) Bill, 2015 sponsored by Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, representing Kebbi South Senatorial District. Following the painstaking study, the PAMED comprising the Institute of Media and Society (IMESO), Media Rights Agenda …

On November 12, 2015 at 2.00pm local time, about ten officials of the Nigerian Prison Service from Kuje Prison in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), descended on Mr. Emmanuel Elebeke, a Vanguard newspaper correspondent at the premises of Court 2 of the FCT High Court, Maitama in Abuja. They …

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is now accepting submissions for its tenth annual Awards for Investigative Reporting. The annual event will honour works that involve reporting on public and or corporate corruption, human rights abuses or on the failure of regulatory agencies. The 2015 edition plans to …

Lagos, Wednesday, October 21, 2015:  Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today commended the Governments of Nigeria, Angola and Morocco for co-sponsoring a resolution passed by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommending to its General Conference to proclaim September 28 as “International Access to …

The Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands is seeking a PhD candidate in the European Research Council Starting Grant Project titled “Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical Study of the Role of Secrecy in Democratic Governance”. The successful candidate will work on this research project which aims to …

Five Nigerians has been nominated for the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist of the year Awards to be presented in a ceremony in October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The nominees from Nigeria are Femi Asu, Punch Newspaper; Adewale Olugbenga Emosu, tribuneonlineng.com; Ibanga Isine, Premium Times Newspaper; Klá Túbsún, Blogger at ktravula.com; and …

The African Media Initiative and the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications has concluded arrangements to co-host the ”Reporting Africa” conference in Kenya to discuss how Africa is covered by regional and global media. The 2016 conference will bring together media practitioners from across the continent. ”The conference will seek …

African Media Initiative in partnership with Deustche Welle Akademie (DW-Akademie) has announced that a new platform which will enable the sharing of high quality PanAfrican TV content between regional and global media organizations is set to be launched as part of the African Stories project. AMI explained that its choice …

The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) based in Kampala, Uganda has released a 124-page report that evaluates the right of access to information in 15 African countries. The report also touches on challenges to implementing laws that exist and difficulties in getting new laws passed. The report presents the …

Reports from two different research surveys carried out by the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) and Right to Know (R2K) Nigeria show that Nigerian public institutions have failed to comply with their obligations set out in the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. These reports have shown that public institutions …