AFEX Denounces Increasing Attacks On Journalists In Africa, Calls For An End To Impunity...
Resolution of the Seventh General Meeting of the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) held in Berlin, Germany, on April 7, 2019.
The Seventh General...
Premium Times, Anti-Press Laws And The Nigerian Constitution, By Femi Falana
Last December, the Nigerian Army demanded a retraction of what it described as the ”unwarranted and serial provocative, unauthorised, libelous and defamatory publications against...
Police Arrest Suspected Abductors of Channels TV Reporter
Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder, acting on intelligence report, have arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a Channels Television reporter, Friday Okeregbe.
This...
Newspaper Vendors Protest Alleged Harassment By A’Íbom Govt Agents
Newspaper vendors under the auspices of Akwa Ibom State Newspapers Association, yesterday, stormed the Correspondents’ Chapel Secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUN,...
Army Bars Print Media From Covering Jos Event, After Invitation
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has overruled the decision of the Army Public Relations Department of the 3 Division, Jos,...
Osinbajo, Falana, Charge Journalists On Professional Ethics
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), publisher of Premium Times newspaper, Dapo Oloruyomi and former Commissioner of Justice and Attorney...
How We Were Threatened During 2019 Elections — Female Candidates
Some female candidates in the just concluded general elections have described how they were threatened, harassed and subjected to other inhuman acts by fellow...
Fake News, Hate Speech: MTN, Others Call For Caution
Telecommunications giant, MTN, Nigeria and other stakeholders in the media, have called on the traditional media (print and broadcast) to be cautious of fake...
DSS Releases Journalist Jones Abiri
Jones Abiri, the editor and publisher of the Weekly Source newspaper based in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, arrested by the Department of State...
How Ownership, Poor Conditions Of Service, State Actors’ Interference Hinder Free Press
According to a popular saying by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” There have been a lot of...