The alarming increase in the arrest and detention of journalists in Nigeria has become a pressing issue, casting a dark cloud over the country’s commitment to press freedom and democratic values. This recent surge in attacks on media professionals not…
Men of the Nigerian Police Force from the Zone 2 Command, Lagos State, have arrested a journalist and publisher of News Platform, Precious Eze. The publisher of the online newspaper was said to have been picked up by policemen at…
By Toheeb Olatunji Media bodies in the country have demanded the prosecution of military officials involved in the unlawful abduction of the First News Editor, Segun Olátúnjí who was recently released from detention. The bodies comprising of the Newspapers Proprietors…
The Ogun State Police Command has rescued a journalist, Seun Oduneye, from some kidnappers after engaging them in a gun battle for almost 45 minutes. Oduneye, the publisher of Issues Magazine, was reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen at Mobalufon in…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 presidential election shed tears on live television on Thursday while addressing the press for the first time after he lost the presidential election to the candidate of the…
…Fish out perpetrators, Akeredolu gives matching orders to security operatives By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure No fewer than three persons including the Public Relations Officer of a private University in Ondo state, Olubunmi Afuye, have been reportedly shot dead by some…
By Tobi Adetunji The family of a 20-year-old journalist, Pelumi Onifade, killed by police officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force are about to be shut out from the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry, a document has shown. The…
