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Victim profiling is a bane of Nigerian security, where ordinary citizens get brandished and harassed at will. The role of the law enforcement agencies is to ensure that adequate security is provided for, and that laws and orders are strictly adhered to by members of the public. However, it has been a sad turn of

Armed men thought to be state agents arrested Jones Abiri, a Nigerian journalist, previously detained for more than two years, at a meeting with colleagues on Saturday, witnesses and watchdog groups told AFP.Two DSS (State Security Service) vehicles stormed the office of the Bayelsa Federated Newspaper Publishers’ Association in Yenagoa in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa state

A free press contributes to the right of freedom of expression, thought and conscience, strengthens the responsiveness and accountability of governments to all citizens, and provides a platform and channel of political expression for a multiplicity of groups and interests. So, what are the crucial roles akin to an independent press and its impact? The

Human rights are embedded in our laws to keep humans from living in a barbaric and animalistic way, where the strong survive, and the weak are eliminated. However, the issue of human rights abuses and violations is prevailing in many societal structures in Nigeria. Painfully, most of the human rights cases go unreported. Below are

Nigeria is one of the countries where murderers of journalists get away without the authorities ever bringing them to justice. Nigeria was ranked 13 out of 14 countries in the 2018 Global Impunity Index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), making it the sixth time that Nigeria is featured on the index since

The 2019 general elections have been full of intrigues. Nigerians witnessed the burning of INEC offices in some locations, the last minute postponement due to logistical challenges, pockets of violence, vote buying and selling as well as inconclusive elections in 6 states namely Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto. The Rivers State elections is

MrJa’farJa’far, an investigative journalist and a publisher of Daily Nigeria published a video clips last year which allegedly showed Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State receiving bribes. The video clipssparked outcry by members of the public in Nigeria and citizens took to social media to call on the appropriate agencies in investigating the allegations. Ja’far

The Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) award event, the closing ceremony for the 2018 fellowship is scheduled for Tuesday, 5 February 2019. At the event, certificates would be given to the fellows and prizes will also be given to the best three fellows of the Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme. Commencing in June 2017,

The invasion of Media Trust’s (publishers of Daily Trust Newspaper) head office and two of its regional offices by armed soldiers on the 6th of January may have come and gone, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth of media practitioners and citizens. Of more grave concern is the fact that the clampdown

Ahmed Hussein, who worked closely with ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to expose the rot in Ghana football in an investigative masterpiece dubbed #Number12, was killed on Wednesday, 16 January, by unknown gunmen while driving home. His killing came months after the Assin Central lawmaker, Ken Agyapong, splashed his pictures on TV, calling for