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Nigeria: Police Arrest Publisher of Online News Portal for Alleged Defamation

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 14, 2014. Nigerian police have arrested Desmond Utomwen, publisher of FreshNews, an online journal, following a...
Nigeria  Censorship

Nigeria: Journalists Barred from Abuja High Court

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 12, 2017. Journalists who went to the Federal High Court in Abuja to cover a case...
Nigeria  Attacks

Nigeria: Prison Official Assaults Journalists

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on June 29, 2016. On June 28, 2016, a prison official, A. A. Teriba, assaulted some journalists who...
Nigeria  Attacks

Nigeria: Militants Attack Radio Station

The statement was originally published by mfwa.org on June 26, 2016. On June 23, 2016, individuals suspected to be Niger-Delta militants  armed with guns and...
Nigeria  Digital Rights

Nigeria: Judge Directs NGOs to put National Assembly ‘On Notice’ Over Anti-Social Media Bill

Originally issued by MRA on March 24, 2016 A Federal High Court in Lagos has directed that the National Assembly be “put on notice” before...
NigeriaUganda  Access To Information

UN, AU and civil society seek to intervene in Criminal Defamation case of a journalist.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Prof David Kaye; the Special...
Nigeria  Attacks

MRA Condemns Arrest and Detention of Journalist, Calls for his Unconditional Release

LAGOS: Monday, August 31, 2015: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the arrest and continued detention of Nigeria-based Cameroonian journalist, Simon Ateba, by the...
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