Tag: Journalist
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Photos: Lawyer turned journalist stages exhibition on the plights of IDPs in Nigeria
A renowned lawyer turned communications strategist, mediator and conflict resolutionist, Mrs. Nwabuogo Enwerem recently staged an exhibition at Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland to give true accounts of the plights of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in Nigeria. The event which took place on Thursday, September 7 was themed “Rebuilding a new life: A story of Internally…
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Woman journalist shot dead by unknown attacker in Mexico
Another journalist has been killed in Mexico and this time the victim is a woman who hosts a program on an indigenous radio station in the southern state of Guerrero. State security spokesman Roberto Alvarez Heredia says Marcela de Jesus Natalia was shot in the head on Saturday as she left the government-owned station on…
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SERAP, NUJ drag FG, others to UN over crackdown on journalists, media houses
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) have sent an urgent appeal to Mr. David KAYE, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, requesting him to “urgently intervene to prevail on the Federal Government, the Nigerian Army, police…
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IPC condemns recent attacks on journalists
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria has condemned recent attacks on three Nigerian journalists as well as the clampdown on media organizations in Gambia. IPC in its recent update report on monitoring of the safety of journalists reveals that not less than three journalists have been arrested in Nigeria and two private radio stations shut…