2024: Notable Press Freedom Attacks in Africa
Reporters Without Borders sees a worrying decline in support and respect for media autonomy and increasing pressure from the state actors.
Reporters Without Borders sees a worrying decline in support and respect for media autonomy and increasing pressure from the state actors.
In nearly every instance, the ruling party in the state sweeps all local government chairmanship and council seats, raising serious concerns about the integrity of the electoral process and the prospects for genuine grassroots democracy.
Despite its good intentions, the law has been poorly implemented, and its provisions consistently flouted. Having failed to deliver on its promises, PWDs face continued discrimination and marginalisation.
The most repressed country remains a silenced nation where expressing dissent often leads to persecution, torture, or disappearance, and citizens are left disconnected from the world through heavy internet censorship.
Amidst the crashing of public trust in Nigeria’s judiciary, the National Judicial Council NJC has made a significant stride: recommending the compulsory retirement of two heads of court and imposing sanctions on several other judicial officers.
Speaking on the floor of the House of Respresentative, Jimbo bemoaned the troubling increase in the number of journalists being unlawfully arrested, detained, and harassed for carrying out their professional duties while relying on the offense of Cyber-Stalking within the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.
The growing trend of journalists’ arrest and abduction does not just show a decline in press freedom in Nigeria, it also raises serious concerns about the future of journalism in the country.
Repression remains an issue in Nigeria despite practicing democracy for over two decades. This is exemplified by different instances of police brutality.
The abysmal treatment of media practitioners in the past one year depicts the degeneration and misuse of the rule of law in handling journalists.
Journalism is both demanding and dangerous in Nigeria. The sour relationship between the media and authorities has battered the freedom of journalistic practices, making it
When press freedom is under threat, citizens’ right to information suffers.
The guidelines will enslave the nurses in the country, violating their right to equal opportunities and subjecting them to discrimination.
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