Articles by Media Rights Agenda (MRA)
Nigeria’s central bank ordered to pay MRA for denial of information
A Nigerian high court has directed the country’s central bank to provide Media Rights Agenda with the information it requested and pay 1 million naira (US$2,100) in damages.
Nigeria’s Federal High court rules in favour of MRA
Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission is prevented from sanctioning broadcasters.
Nigeria’s regulator ordered to comply with court order
Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is contesting a high court ruling, which has blocked the regulator from sanctioning broadcasters.
Nigeria’s government urged to do more to protect media
Media Rights Agenda has called on Nigeria’s President Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his incoming government to protect media freedoms on paper and in practice.
Nigeria launches independent self-regulatory body
Journalists, editors and owners collaborate to form the National Media Complaints Commission as a mechanism through which citizens can lodge their complaints around media content.
Journalist assaulted by hoodlums while covering elections
The director of the International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) – Dayo Aiyetan – brutally assaulted while covering Nigeria’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Mandate of Nigeria’s broadcasting regulator questioned
Media Rights Agenda uses Nigeria’s freedom of information law to anchor their interrogation of the independence of the country’s broadcasting regulator.
MRA uses FOI Act to draw out information from Nigeria’s regulator
Media Rights Agenda asks Nigeria’s broadcasting regulator to provide detailed information on the sanctions it meted out to 300 broadcasters.