LAGOS, Monday, August 27, 2018: Media Rights Agenda today named the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for the institution’s failure to comply with its duties and obligations under the FOI Act, thereby violating the public’s right of access to information. Announcing the …

Lagos and Nairobi, Thursday, 23 August, 2018:  Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) have announced the launch of a Guide to the AU for Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age, an advocacy tool designed to enhance civil society organisations which are conducting or intend to …

Lagos, Monday, August 20, 2018: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today accused the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) of showing complete nonchalance towards the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 as it inducted the institution into its “FOI Hall of Shame”. Ms Chioma Nwaodike, MRA’s Legal Officer, announced the institution as this week’s inductee …

A reporter with the online newspaper Premium Times, Mr. Samuel Ogundipe, was on August 14, 2018  arrested by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police. Samuel who honoured an invitation by SARS by going to its headquarters in Abuja was later taken to the IGP Monitoring …

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and two partner organizations, Paradigm Initiative and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EIE), have taken their legal battle to the Supreme Court in an ongoing effort to strike down some sections of the Cybercrime Act as unconstitutional. The three organizations filed an appeal at the Supreme Court …

The Civil Society co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Nigeria, Mr Edetaen Ojo, has charged civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country to ensure the full implementation of the commitments in the current National Action Plan. Delivering his address at the OGP Nigeria, south-east town hall engagement organized …

The Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a lawsuit against the former Kaduna Bureau Chief of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr. Luka Binniyat, for alleged false and malicious publication. Luka was first arrested on February 21, 2017, and charged to a Chief Magistrate Court 1, Kaduna. He was arrested as a result …

The Fourth Estate’s Awesome Journalism℠ grant aimed at fostering, supporting and incubating a sustainable and vibrant free press is now open for applications. The organisers give a monthly $1,000 micro-grant to a journalism project that commits a crazy, brilliant, positive act of journalism in the public interest. The grant is available …

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program dedicated to international exchange is seeking applications from leading democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world into its five-month fellowship programme The fellowship offers fellows an important opportunity to step back from the field, reflect upon their work, and explore …

The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) celebrated 40th Anniversary in broadcasting amidst praises and well wishes. The station, inaugurated in 1977 marked its 40th anniversary celebration, by airing some old vintage programmes that were peculiar to the station in the 1980s and 1990s. Programmes like “Cockcrow at Dawn”, “Village Headmaster”, “Magana …