By Rameez Mahesar The seizure of press freedom is not a recent discourse but it has the long history of uncountable calamities like detentions, arrests, murders, kidnappings, media houses set ablaze, and press bans. It has been persistent for donkeys years. A few days ago, I came across two reports, which appeared in a newspaper […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to intensify efforts at promoting news literacy and strong professional journalism in the country. The Director-General of NBC, Mallam Is’haq Modibbo-Kawu, made the call at the 2019 Annual World Human Rights Day organised by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), […]
Civil Society Groups in Nigeria have expressed deep concerns over what they described as a threat to freedom of expression and association. This is against the backdrop of recent attacks by security personnel preventing protesters from, and assaults against journalists. They described it as an infringement on citizens’ rights to association, that government would consider […]