This seems to be the season of Bills at the Nigeria Senate, they are either being sponsored or rejected, and most of the decisions by the Senators regarding these Bills do not sit well with Nigerians. The Frivolous Petition Bill,…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is collaborating with the Government of Finland to organize the main celebration of the 2016 World Press Freedom Day from May 2 to 4 in Helsinki, Finland. UNESCO usually leads the…
Lilian Ezejelue With the advent of internet and technology came the need to protect people’s rights and to promote the correct use of technology so as to guard against using it negatively. It is to this regard that a number…
The Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative is inviting applications for its 2016 Fellowship programme. The Project Director is Mary Hadar and Fellows will be mentored by a group of prestigious journalists including Wolf Blitzer, Linda Feldmann, Martin Fletcher, Glenn Frankel,…
Freemuse, an independent international membership organisation advocating and defending artistic freedom, has released its annual statistics on censorship and attacks on artistic freedom in 2015 which shows that artists in many countries increasingly face attacks on their rights to freedom of…
In a two-day General Assembly held in Kampala, Uganda, on March 3 and 4, 2016, the Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) brought together 39 representatives from all over Africa to learn from each other and brainstorm about actions that…
The Working Group of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms in collaboration with the African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) will hold a workshop on Freedom of Expression and the Internet in Africa in Banjul, The Gambia,…
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has called on the Nigerian Government to decriminalize defamation and amend other laws in the statute books that restrict access to information, to bring them into conformity with the Freedom of…
Lilian Ezejelue Updated: It is not uncommon to hear the government of our great country make promises which they never follow through on. The citizens have become so used to it that they no longer get hopeful when such promises…
By Our Reporter Over 1,000 internally displaced Agatu women and children camped at the Central Primary School Ugbokpo, Apa Local Government Area of Benue state have been provided free medical care by the Live Healthy Organisation (LHO). The medical outreach…
