By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent LEGAL ACTION has been initiated by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against Governor Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over alleged intimidation of Minna-based Badeggi FM and threa...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent  Experts call for urgent reforms as spyware, gendered threats, and state-backed monitoring undermine democracy across the continent. DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE is tightening its grip across Africa, threatening press freedom and weakening democratic foundations, as speakers at the 17th Wole Soyinka Ce...
By JKNewsMedia GROWING THREATS to journalism through digital surveillance and censorship will take centre stage as Angela Quintal, Africa programme director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), delivers the keynote at the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture. The event, themed ‘Surveillance, Safety and the Silencing of Truth’, bri...
By Joke Kujenya AFTER FOUR whole decades of being flagged by state security, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, a longtime media rights advocate and Executive Director of the International Press Centre (IPC), has been officially removed from the watchlist of Nigeria’s Department of State Security (DSS). The Nigerian chapter of the International Press Inst...
