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The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Monday called on members of the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly across Nigeria to make greater use of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011, as a powerful legal instrument to obtain…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has announced Ms. Blessing Oladunjoye, a journalist and publisher of BONews Service, and Mr. Remmy Nweke, Group Executive Editor of ITREALMS Media Group, as winners in the two categories of the maiden edition of…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the reported assault on Albarka Radio journalist, Mr Mohammed Adamu, by police officers over the weekend while he was covering the Eid Durbar celebration in Bununu, headquarters of the Tafawa Balewa…
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The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) says it documented 86 incidents of attacks against journalists, media organisations and citizens across Nigeria in 2025. The MRA revealed this in its 2025 Annual Report on Freedom of Expression in Nigeria,…
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The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Monday released a report exposing a persistent pattern of attacks, intimidation, and harassment targeted at journalists and other media workers by security, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies in…
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A Lagos State District Coroner, Mrs. Temitope Oladele, investigating the death of Mr. Pelumi Onifade, a reporter with Gboah TV who reportedly died in Police custody during the #EndSARS protests in October 2020, has ordered the Medical…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the closure of Badeggi 90.1 FM, a private radio station based in Minna, Niger State, on August 1, 2025, on the orders of the Governor, Mr. Mohammed Umaru Bago, describing the action as illegal,…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has decried what it described as an alarming escalation of attacks on media freedom and civic expression, particularly through the misuse of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act by law enforcement…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Friday condemned the recent call by the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, for an amendment to the Freedom of Information (FOI)…
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has commended the weekend’s directive by the Federal Government instructing all Federal tertiary institutions to publish their budgetary allocations, other financial information and institutional data online,…
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