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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to publicly condemn attacks on journalists and media organizations in the country.
SERAP made the call on Thursday in Lagos while unveiling a report entitled “Something to Hide?: Media Freedom Under Siege in Nigeria”.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 76-page report was authored by a veteran journalist, Mr Richard Akinnola.
According to the report, 36 journalists were attacked between January 2019 and July 2019, with 30 of the attacks recorded during the 2019 General Elections.
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has dragged the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), accusing him of persistent wilful, mischievous and deceitful misinterpretation of sections of Nigeria’s criminal laws.
The association called on NBA to debar Lai Mohammed for allegedly bringing the prestigious profession into irreparable disrepute.
HURIWA categorically condemned the Minister of Information Lai for saying that kidnapping and banditry are not Federal offences.
The rights group further reminded the Minister that common sense should have told that crimes are offences fundamentally against the Nigerian Sovereign States since the parts are interdependent with the whole.
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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: Atiku, Obaseki, Sanwo-Olu, NUJ, ActionAid seek press freedom in Nigeria
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By Innocent Anaba, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Gabriel Enogholase, Gabriel Ewepu
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, governors of Edo and Lagos states, Godwin Obaseki, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as well as Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, yesterday sought freedom of the press in the country.
The calls came on the occasion of celebration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day.
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The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, has called for the revisiting of the National Broadcasting Corporation’s legislations and policies to avoid infringement of human rights.
He also condemned the imposition of excessive fines by NBC on some media houses.
According to a statement on Monday by the commission’s Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Fatimah Mohammed, Ojukwu made the call in a message marking this year’s World Press Freedom Day.
Mohammed’s statement was titled ‘Ojukwu celebrates Nigerian journalists, urges them to continue to be courageous, patriotic and uphold the truth despite challenges’.