Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

After receiving death threats over his coverage of human trafficking in Osun state, Nigeria, Adewale Adetoyese, editor of ‘EyewitnessMedia’, has to seek protection from security agencies.

A Nigerian radio station was temporarily forced off the air, following an attack by armed men who ransacked the media outlet and stole equipment.

Lagos-based reporter Oludare Richards has gone into hiding after escaping his attempted abduction.

The 3-year ordeal of journalist and political activist Agba Jalingo finally came to an end, after he was acquitted of terrorism and cybercrime charges by Nigeria’s Cross River Federal High Court.

As the inhumane treatment of journalists and activists intensifies, the Federal High Court has granted Media Rights Agenda permission to sue the Attorney-General for failing to implement the country’s Anti-Torture Act.

The applicants, which include Media Rights Agenda (MRA), other non-governmental organisations, journalists and some Nigerian citizens, are contending that the suspension of the social media platform, Twitter, in Nigeria amounted to a violation of their fundamental rights, including their rights to freedom of expression and access to information.

A Nigerian federal court rules that the denial of information requested by journalist Godsgift Onyedinefu from the Ministries of Finance and Sport constitutes a violation of rights, guaranteed by the country’s Freedom of Information Act.

Media Rights Agenda sues Nigerian government official and state government official over the internet shutdown ordered by the governor in Kaduna.