A group of Nigerian journalists participating in the same media fellowship as Daniel Ojukwu have called for his release. Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), went missing on Wednesday, May 1. Days later, his family confirmed that he was held at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department in Panti under the […]
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Daniel Ojukwu, an investigative journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), is yet to be released from detention four days after officers of the Intelligence Response Team, which reports to Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, arrested him in Lagos. Though Ojukwu was arrested on Wednesday, May 1, he was denied access to lawyers and […]
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Speaking during a meeting with members of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) in December 2023, President Bola Tinubu reiterated his administration’s commitment to upholding press freedom and said they would look into extant policies affecting the newspaper industry with a view to reworking them. “You have held our feet to the fire, and […]
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Three days after he was declared missing by his family, the corpse of Hamisu Danjibga, a long-serving broadcast journalist at the Voice of Nigeria (VON), was found in a soakaway pit a few metres from his residence at the Samaru Quarters in Zamfara, North West Nigeria. Danjibga, who reported extensively on the widespread insecurity in […]
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The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has condemned the harassment of a Nigerian investigative journalist, Marcus Fatunmole, by security personnel at Eagle Square car park in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. Fatunmole, who is the news editor of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), a Nigerian media publication, was reportedly harassed […]
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Though the history of the Nigerian press dates back to 1859 with the appearance of Iwe Iroyin in the South West, it was the rise of newspapers like the popular West African Pilot that set the goal for Nigeria’s independence. Newspapers established at the time pioneered general protests against British colonial rule, as the press […]
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