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Covid-19: Journalists harassed by Nigeria’s security operatives while covering pandemic

ON the evening of April 26, Kufre Carter, a broadcast journalist had received a disturbing call from Nigeria's secret...

‘An attempt to gag the media’: Journalists on Nigeria’s proposed social media bill

Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher AT a public hearing on Nigeria’s social media bill held in Abuja last month, the...
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The secret prosecution of Nigerian journalist, Jones Abiri

By Jonathan Rozen A familiar secrecy is set to dominate the renewed prosecution of Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri. On December 12,...

Nigerian military targeted journalists’ phones, computers with “forensic search” for sources

By Jonathan ROZEN HAMZA Idris, an editor with the Nigerian Daily Trust, was at the newspaper’s central office on January 6...
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Eritrea, North Korea, Turkmenistan…seven other countries dangerous to be a journalist in — CPJ

THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has identified 10 countries that deploy sophisticated digital censorship, surveillance alongside imprisonment and...

‘You cannot muzzle the media’: Nigerian journalists on press freedom under Buhari

By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Africa Research Associate WHEN Nigeria's incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari won re-election this year, he campaigned (as he did in 2015)...
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