The International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) in conjunction with ONE and the Elliott family call for entries for the inaugural 2017 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. The annual award is to honour an emerging journalist who tells important stories through quality reporting. The contest is open to …

The 2016 Freedom House annual Freedom on the Net report highlights a decline in Internet freedom around the world for the sixth consecutive year The report which focuses on communication apps under pressure points to governments increasingly going after messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram which can spread information quickly …

More than 90 participants drawn from federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) as well as civil society organisations under the aegis of the Freedom of Information Coalition Nigeria (FOICN) have identified some of the challenges working against the effective implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and recommended solutions to …

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has issued a report indicating that at least 100 journalists and media staff have been killed in 2016.  The list was divided into targeted and cross fire killings and accidental deaths. The victims cut across 20 different countries, which include: Afghanistan – David Gilkey,( …

Representatives of civil society organisations and the media from across the country have called on the Federal Government to take deliberate steps to enforce compliance with the Freedom of Information Act by public institutions. Specifically, they urged the Head of Service (HOS) of the Federation to issue a circular making …

A network of Civil Society organisations known as the Public Procurement Monitors Working Group (PPMWG) recently expressed its dissatisfaction with the lack of access to public procurement information. The group noted that the situation has continued to impinge on the principles of openness, transparency and citizens’ engagement in public procurement. …

African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) has called on all stakeholders including national Governments, African Citizens and the Civil Society to protect Freedom of Information and Expression on the Internet. This call comes in the wake of the  internet penetrating  the nooks and crannies of the global polity, …

Freelancers covering refugee stories have taken top honours at the Rory Peck Awards 2016, hosted by ITV’s Julie Etchingham and CNN’s Clarissa Ward at London’s Southbank.The Rory Peck Awards, sponsored by Sony, are dedicated to the work of freelance cameramen and women in news and current affairs.  Internationally respected and …

On November 30, 2016, Mr. Friday Ogungbemi, publisher of a monthly community magazine, Policy and Lawmakers Magazine, was arrested and detained by men of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Lokoja, Kogi State. His arrest is suspected to be in connection with an article in the November 23 – …

A web platform, www.foivault.com, has been developed as a one-stop platform to catalogue  Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and responses. The platform is available to members of the public to share FOI experiences: upload FOI requests made as well as those for which they got responses. Users can also access information …