The International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna, Austria, and the IPI News Innovation Platform (IPI NIP), will hold a one-day symposium on digital media in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 20, 2014. Titled “ChallengeSSS of the New Age”, the event
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has called for applications to its annual Pulliam/Kilgore Freedom of Information (FOI) Internship programme. The Interns will receive a stipend of $400 per week and work during a mutually agreeable 10-week period during the
The Stop Impunity Nigeria (S.I.N) Campaign has condemned the legislative immunity bill and called on Nigerians to resist attempts to have it passed into law by condemning the bill. The S.I.N Campaign, in a statement, described the legislative immunity bill
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has become a member organization of ‘Web We Want’ (WWW) Advisory Committee. MRA in this capacity, along with other committee members, will provide strategic direction, policy expertise and support to the WWW campaign. The advisory committee
The Africa Department at Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S) has charted a roadmap for its re-engagement in Nigeria in collaboration with some Nigerian civil society organisations (CSOs) working on anti-corruption issues. To this end, it has produced a strategic planning document
The World Justice Project (WJP) has announced that the World Justice Challenge competition designed to incubate practical, on-the-ground programmes that advance the rule of law, is now open to receive entries. The winning programmes will be supported by a modest
Access, an international human rights organization that defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world, has announced that it is receiving applications for its 2014 Innovation Prize award Access is seeking submission from applicants directly
The Nigeria Community Radio Coalition (NCRC), in collaboration with the Institute for Media and Society (IMESO), has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to start issuing community radio licenses. It said the delay in implementging the October 2010 approval
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right (ACHPR) has reappointed Commissioner Pansy Tlakula as its Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa for another two years. Pansy Tlakula was reappointed on November 5, 2013
Lagos, Monday, December 9, 2013: Two non-governmental organizations have filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos asking the court to compel the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to release to them the procurement records for the controversial
