Journalists attacked in Nigeria since 1992
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Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria journalist dies after attack
January 23, 2020 3:16 PM ET
Abuja, January 23, 2020—Authorities in Nigeria should conduct a swift and credible investigation into the killing of Maxwell Nashan, a reporter and newscaster with the government-owned Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), and determine whether his journalism was the motive for the attack, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
Assailants attack Rave Television journalist, break camera during Nigeria protest
December 23, 2019 6:14 PM ET
On November 9, 2019, a group of people attacked Jimoh Ogirima, a journalist with the privately owned broadcaster Rave Television, in Nigeria’s southern Edo State, and damaged his camera while he filmed a protest, according to the news website Newspad, the Ghana-based press freedom organization Media Foundation for West...
Nigeria and Ethiopia jail activist-journalists amid crackdown on free expression
December 11, 2019 12:00 AM ET
The ongoing detentions of Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo and Ethiopian editor Fekadu Mahtemework--the only journalists behind bars for their work in their countries, according to CPJ’s latest prison census--don’t tell the whole story of their governments’ crackdowns on freedom of expression....
US-Nigerian Sahara Reporters website reports assets frozen amid surveillance, censorship
December 10, 2019 6:00 PM ET
New York, December 10, 2019—Nigerian authorities should halt all efforts to intimidate journalists working with the U.S.-headquartered, Nigeria-focused Sahara Reporters news website and ensure they are permitted to continue working to report the news, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Nigerian journalists attacked and threatened while covering Bayelsa and Kogi state elections
November 19, 2019 4:33 PM ET
Abuja, November 19, 2019 -- Nigerian authorities should investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the harassment of journalists working to cover the November 16 gubernatorial and federal assembly elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
Nigerian security forces fire on journalists, protesters
November 15, 2019 5:13 PM ET
Abuja, November 15, 2019 – Nigerian authorities should investigate attacks by security forces on journalists at a recent protest in Abuja, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Nigerian journalists charged with criminal defamation, breach of peace
October 29, 2019 12:07 PM ET
New York, October 29, 2019—Authorities should drop all charges against journalists Joe Ogbodu and Prince Amour Udemude, and reform Nigeria’s penal code to ensure that journalism is not criminalized, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Getting Away with Murder
October 29, 2019 8:00 AM ET
CPJ's 2019 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free Published October 29, 2019 Somalia is the world’s worst country for the fifth year in a row when it comes to prosecuting murderers of journalists, CPJ’s 2019 Global Impunity Index found. War and...
Nigerian court grants anonymity to witnesses testifying against journalist Agba Jalingo
October 24, 2019 2:00 PM ET
New York, October 24, 2019 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern over a Nigerian court’s decision to grant anonymity to witnesses set to testify against journalist Agba Jalingo and deny the public access to the courtroom during the trial....
Nigerian military targeted journalists’ phones, computers with “forensic search” for sources
October 22, 2019 9:21 AM ET
Hamza Idris, an editor with the Nigerian Daily Trust, was at the newspaper’s central office on January 6 when the military arrived looking for him. Soldiers with AK47s walked between the newsroom desks repeating his name, he told CPJ. It was the second raid on the paper that day;...