The European Union (EU) and Search for Common Ground Journalism have trained about 33 journalists from three states in Niger Delta region - Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa on ways to reporting issues of criminality and violence in the oil-rich region to tackle them.

Members of the Sun Cooperative Society Estate at Arobieye community have raised the alarm over the encroachment of their lands located at Ado-Odo Ota Local Council of Ogun State.

As part of efforts aimed at countering fake news, mis-information and dis-information, International Press Centre (IPC) recently held a two-day capacity building workshop in Kaduna State on combating information disorder in democratic governance reporting using fact-checking and Freedom of Information (FOI) tools.

Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed a petition by the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) to compel the Nigerian government to pay N10 million reparation each to families of 11 deceased journalists.

The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has expressed happiness with the February 16, 2024 judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the Federal Government to investigate attacks against journalists

The Director General, Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), Maj. Gen. Garba Wahab (rtd), has said that there is a need to have journalists embedded by the military in planning and execution of its operations.  

Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has condemned reported attacks on journalists by Israeli security forces in the ongoing conflict in Palestine, stressing that the action represents violation of press freedom and human rights.

Media practitioners, analysts and observers have described 2023 as year of assaults and impunity against journalists.

The Member, representing Africa on the World Journalism Education Council and Chair / Past Head of Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos , Prof. Ralph Akinfeleye, has called on President Bola Tinubu to give palliatives to journalists and rescue the media industry from a total collapse.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in-charge of Administration and Finance, Imo State Command, ACP Edwin Nkpa receiving an Appreciation Award on behalf of the Commissioner, CP Aboki Danjuma from the Imo Council of NUJ at the closing ceremony of their Press Week held weekend in Owerri Journalists in Imo State have been urged to consider…

The Nigeria Employers' Consultative Association (NECA) in collaboration with the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has trained journalists on the mitigation of inappropriate information and its negative impact on private businesses in Nigeria. At the training session, which had the theme 'Combating Disinformation in a Digital Age: Fact-Checking for Responsible Journalism', experts described journalists…

A vibrant media is one of the pillars of a viable democracy. But there cannot be a vibrant media where the safety of media practitioners, who act as watchdogs of the society, is not protected.