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Nigeria: Temporary Reprieve as Regulator Suspends Shutdown of Broadcast Stations
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has temporarily suspended its intention to shutdown indebted broadcast stations in the country.
The regulatory agency in a statement it...
West Africa Freedom of Expression Violations
Terror attacks in the Sahel: Media actors from 16 countries demand action
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its partner organisations in all the 16 countries in West Africa have expressed deep concern about...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigeria: Regulator’s Fine on Trust TV Arbitrary and Unacceptable
For Immediate Release, Wednesday August 3, 2022
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria is miffed that the National Broadcasting Commission has slammed a hefty fine...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
IPC Condemns Government’s Threats Against the Media
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria is worried by the recent utterances by the Federal Government of Nigeria threatening to sanction the BBC...
Liberia Freedom of Expression Violations
CEMESP Condemns Violence Against Protesting Students
Monrovia, July 27, 2022: The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) has condemned in the strongest terms the violence meted out against protesting...
Nigeria Digital Rights
Nigeria: Media Rights Agenda, Others Win Suit over Twitter Ban
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ruled that the indefinite suspension of access to Twitter in Nigeria by Federal Government in June 2021...
Gambia Freedom of Expression Violations
Gambia: GPU Condemns Arbitrary Arrest of Journalist Yusef Taylor
Fajara, 7 July, 2022 – The Gambia Press Union (GPU) has received official reports that on the 5th of July 2022, Yusef Taylor, a...
Ghana
Ghana: MFWA condemns violent scenes at ‘Arise Ghana’ protests
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the various acts of violence that marred the anti-government demonstration in Accra on June 28, 2022,...
Ghana Digital Rights
Ghana: MFWA welcomes justice for victim of sexual extortion
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the justice served by a court in Accra, Ghana, by jailing a phone repairer for sexual...
Nigeria
Communiqué of two-day Media Capacity Building Workshop on Safety
The two-day workshop organised by International Press Centre (IPC) for Journalists in Anambra, Delta and Edo States in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria was held...
Nigeria
Nigeria: IPC Decries Detention and Harassment of Wikki Times Publisher and Reporter
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria, condemns in strong terms the harassment and molestation of Mr. Haruna Mohammed, the publisher of WikkiTimes online newspaper and one of the reporters, Mr....
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigeria: IPC Decries Detention and Harrassment of Wikki Times Publisher and Reporter
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria, condemns in strong terms the harassment and molestation of Mr. Haruna Mohammed, the publisher of WikkiTimes online newspaper and one of the reporters, Mr....