Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram is suspected to have carried out the bombings as the attacks bear their imprint.

Twenty-seven IFEX members appeal for end to impunity in recent brutal attacks on journalists in Kazakhstan, including near-fatal attack on Luqpan Akhmedyarov in April.

The plan, which is promoted by UNESCO, calls for governments and inter-governmental agencies to create a free and safe environment for media workers in both conflict and non-conflict zones.

The APAI working group called on the Commission to recognise 28 September as International Right to Know Day.

In advance of the Formula 1, 50 IFEX members and partners call for detained activists and human rights defenders to be freed, including blogger and activist Abduljalil Al-Singace and human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, founder of IFEX member the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who is ailing in prison since starting a hunger strike on 8 February.

The reporters were at the Ikeja court to cover a story about deaths resulting from a series of ghastly accidents in Lagos, in 2010.

Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for numerous bombings in several cities in northern Nigeria in recent months, has threatened to take action against three
newspapers for alleged false reporting.

(MRA/IFEX) – March 6, 2012 – The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Nigeria’s broadcast sector regulator, has banned the state government owned television station Ogun State Television (OGTV) from its “unilateral commencement of the streaming of OGTV’s signal on the web without the approval of the Commission.” In a letter dated February 21, 2012, the Commission […]