Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) on Tuesday condemned Nigeria's arrest of online journalist Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, a US national, at the Muritala Muhammed international airport on his arrival from the United States on October 28 to visit his sick mother and attend to family matters. He is currently being held at the headquarters of the internal intelligence service, the State Security Service (SSS)...
Jonathan Elendu, publisher of online newspaper Elendu Reports (elendureports.com), has been detained in Nigeria since October 17, when he was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) on arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport, in the capital Abuja, on a flight from the United States, where he lives. Denying that Elendu had been arrested, SSS spokesman Kenechuks Onyegogu said he had...
Nigerian journalist Eiphraim Audu was shot dead by six unknown gunmen near his home on Wednesday in Lafia, central Nigeria, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ0 has reported quoting local journalists and the Nigerian Union of Journalists. Audu was a senior radio journalist with the Nasarawa State Broadcasting Service and the chairman of the credential committee of the forthcoming Nigeria...
Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission restored Friday the broadcasting licence of Channels Television, two days after it was revoked for mistakenly reporting a fabricated report that the president may resign due to his health. NBC said the station apologised and accepted responsibility for the false report, according to Reuters. NBC director-general Yomi Bolarinwa said the commission was...
The Nigerian government should immediately lift its suspension of Channels TV and release four staff members being held by State Security Services, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Security agents closed the Lagos and Abuja offices of Channels TV on Tuesday after the station mistakenly aired a fabricated report that President Umaru Yar’Adua might step down for health reasons...
A member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily newspaper Thisday was shot dead on Sunday in Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos, by yet-to-be identified gunmen, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has reported. According to the Nigerian Police, while driving home Paul Abayomi Ogundeji was ambushed by armed robbers who had earlier stolen another car. The police allege that the bandits ordered him to...
Mallam Saidu Sarki Usman, the political editor of the private daily newspaper Leadership, based in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, was ordered on June 20 to be remanded into prison custody. The order was issued by a Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Alhaji Salihu Attahiru in Minna, Niger State, North-central Nigeria. Usman is accused of allegedly publishing an "injurious...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged its member unions worldwide to express their solidarity with the journalists locked out by The Guardian management in Nigeria. The 800 journalists and other workers took strike action on November 6 after negotiation with The Guardian management over a pay rise and better working conditions broke down. The Guardian online and print...
