Nigeria

Home page - Africa - Nigeria

Relief

Charges dropped against Leadership journalists

Published on 3 May 2013Read

Nigeria

Finally freed

Newspaper editor released after eight days

Published on 25 February 2013Read

Nigeria

Daily abuses suffered by Nigeria’s journalists

Following World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Reporters Without Borders takes a look at the breaches of freedom of news and information in Nigeria (...)

Published on 7 May 2012 Read

Nigeria

Government urged to protect media after two carbomb attacks on newspapers

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by yesterday’s bombings targeting newspapers in the capital, Abuja, and the northern city of Kaduna and (...)

Published on 27 April 2012 Read

Nigeria

TV reporter gunned down while covering Kano suicide bombings

Reporters Without Borders condemns TV reporter Enenche Godwin Akogwu’s targeted murder while covering a series of deadly bombings by the militant (...)

Published on 23 January 2012 Read

Nigeria

TV journalist shot dead in northern city, Islamist group claims responsibility

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the fatal shooting of Zakariya Isa, a (...)

Published on 25 October 2011 Read

Nigeria

Presidential election being held as attacks on media increase

Reporters Without Borders has recorded more than 30 attacks on media freedom so far this year, despite reforms and the promises of outgoing (...)

Published on 16 April 2011 Read

Nigeria

US-Nigerian journalist arrested at Lagos airport, passports confiscated for two days

US-Nigerian professor and journalist Okey Ndibe was on 8 January questioned for several hours by the internal intelligence agency, the State (...)

Published on 10 January 2011 Read

Nigeria

Four kidnapped journalists released unharmed

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its relief at the release yesterday of four Nigerian journalists who were abducted a week early near Aba, (...)

Published on 19 July 2010 Read