Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the arrest and detention of Ilorin-based broadcast journalists, Mr. Dare Akogun, by the Kwara State Command in an effort to coerce him to retract an allegation of corruption he reportedly made against an official…
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has received approval to build the Badagry Deep Seaport which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in August. A statement signed by Sanwo-Olu’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, said the approval, which was…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Friday, October 14 suspended its 8-month-old strike conditionally after a meeting with its national executive committee. The suspension is coming after the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) agreed to modify the Integrated Personnel…
The Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria (HRJN) is set to host the first edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival. The festival, which is scheduled to take place on December 10, 2022, is being held to commemorate International Human…
Over Seventy journalists drawn from different media organizations across the southwest of Nigeria are currently undergoing training on how to apply the most recent data to report issues relating to child rights and women. The two-day media dialogue which focuses…
Federal Government of Nigeria has given the Lagos State Government approval to construct the Lekki airport in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government area of the state. Gatekeepers News earlier reported that Lagos State Government on Friday said plans are underway to build a…
Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries in Africa, is set to roll out a digital learning initiative in Nigeria, in partnership with UNICEF that will connect 100,000 children to…
The federal government has recovered 31 Benin bronzes from three museums in the United States and Germany, 125 years after they were stolen. Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed and Abba Tijjani, Director-General of the National Commission for Museums…
A civil society organisation, Northern Youths Coalition (NYC), has bemoaned the insecurity ravaging the region, noting that it is affecting economic development. The coalition said that insecurity has taken the region several years backward. In a statement signed by the…
‘Stears is going to be systemically important.’ If this statement from the Head of the Private Capital Division at FMDQ Group doesn’t energise me in the morning, then I don’t know what will. From the beginning, we have always understood…
