Media Rights Agenda
The Worldwide Photo Gallery Award (WPGA) is calling on photographers working in all media to submit their work to the 5th Edition of The WPGA Annual Pollux Awards. Photographs can be submitted as series or single images. All images are to be submitted online as digital files. There are no …
Read More »CPJ Ranks Nigeria Poorly on Impunity Index
The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has ranked Nigeria poorly on its 2013 impunity index. The global index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country’s population ranked Nigeria number 11 from 12 worst countries of impunity. Impunity is an attitude that disregards the rule of law and …
Read More »SSS Investigates Journalists Death Threat
The State Security Service (SSS) in Kano State on May 1, 2013 opened an investigation into the death threat to the executive members of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kano chapter, following the Union’s petition. The State Union Chairman filed a formal petition on behalf of others whose life came …
Read More »ITU Selects Nigeria’s First Lady to Champion Child Online Protection
Nigeria’s First Lady and President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has been appointed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Multilateral Partnership against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) to champion the Union’s Global Child Online Protection (COP). A statement by the Union confirmed that Patience …
Read More »AU to Mark Africa Public Service Day
The Africa Union (AU) will mark this year’s African Public Service Day (APSD) celebration with a week-long conference with the theme: African Public Service in the Age of Open Government: Giving Voice to Citizen scheduled to hold from June 17 – 23, 2013 in Accra, Ghana. The day to be …
Read More »Press Release: Lagos State Records Bureau Honours MRA’s Executive Director
Lagos, Tuesday, June 11, 2013: The Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Mr. Edetaen Ojo, was today honoured by the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) in recognition of his crusade for Freedom of Information in Nigeria and around the world. Mr. Ojo was honoured in Lagos and …
Read More »Freedom of Information Law Reports (6)
All Public Institutions Must Prepare Themselves for the Effective Implementation of the FOI Act, Says Judge In the Federal High Court Holden at Lagos, Nigeria On Tuesday the 2nd Day of October, 2012 Before the Honourable Justice M.B. Idris, Judge Suit No. FHC/L/CS/494/2012 Between: Mr. Boniface Okezie – PLAINTIFF And …
Read More »Correspondent Detained, Released but Laptop Siezed
On June 6, 2013 at about 9PM local time, Mr. Emmanuel Unah, a reporter for the Cross River Watch, an online news platform, was arrested by security operatives from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, in Calabar, Cross River State Capital. The arrest was over a story captioned: “Cross River …
Read More »Constitutional Lawyers Launch Publication on Transparency, Accountability
The Access to Information (ATI) committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL) has launched a new publication on transparency and accountability in Africa entitled Access to Information in Africa; Law, Culture and Practice. The publication details progress made and setbacks suffered in the application and implementation of access …
Read More »UNESCO Calls for Proposals to Evaluate Project on Local Radios, ICTs
UNESCO is inviting external independent evaluators to assess the implementation of a project on “Empowering Local Radios with ICTs”, and to produce a mid-term external evaluation report. The report is required to evaluate the relevance of objectives and progress made to achieve them and will be used by UNESCO to …
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