The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the Nigerian broadcast sector regulator, on June 6, 2019, suspended indefinitely the broadcast licence of Daar Communications Plc, operators of Africa Independent Television (AIT), RayPower FM and Faaji FM, for allegedly failing to abide by
A journalist with Wish 99.5 FM, Port Harcourt, Mark Lenu, had dragged NDDC and its Managing Director to court for failing to provide him with information he requested for pursuant to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act,
Mr. Mark Lenu, a journalist, with Wish 99.5 FM, Port Harcourt has sued the Rivers State University over its failure to make available to him the information he requested pursuant to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. The Journalist had
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed June 26, 2019 for hearing in International Centre for Investigative Report’s (ICIR) suit against the Code of Conduct Bureau for its refusal to disclose information following a request for information made
The International Centre for Investigative Report (ICIR) has dragged the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to Court over the Bureau’s refusal to provide the Centre with the information it requested pursuant to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Joined as
Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, on June 19, 2019, adjourned hearing in a Freedom of Information (FOI) suit filed by a journalist, Mr. Mark Lenu, against the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital to
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has fixed June 26, 2019 for hearing in a Freedom of Information (FOI) case filed against Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project and its Project Coordinator by a journalist, Mark Lenu. Joined
Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on June 20, 2019, adjourned hearing in an application filed by a journalist, Mark Lenu, challenging the failure of the University of Port Harcourt to disclose to
Delegates of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) convening in Tunis, the Tunisia capital for the IFJ World Congress, have elected a new executive to pilot its affairs for the next three years. Moroccan journalist, Mr. Younes M’Jahed was elected
The International Press Institute (IPI) has elected a new set of executive board members at its World Congress held in Geneva, Switzerland on June 5, 2019. Leading editors from the Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria were elected into the Executive Board
