By Kayode Ketefe Today, April 26, 2015, (like April 26 of every year) is the World Intellectual Property Day, a day set apart annually to celebrate human creative endeavours as evinced in or... Read more
By Kerry Paterson/CPJ Africa Research Associate It will be one year this weekend since six bloggers were arrested in Addis Ababa, just days after the group announced on Facebook that their Z... Read more
Press Release The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has urged bankers and major players in Nigeria’s financial sector to cooperate with law enf... Read more
New York, April 23, 2015 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of Soleil Balanga, a journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and calls on Congolese authorit... Read more
Press Release A former Chief of Army Staff, General Ishaya Bamaiyi, has told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, that Fred Ajudua who is standing trial for duping the former Army boss of th... Read more
The President of Ghana and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr John Mahama, on Tuesday condemned the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, describing the inc... Read more
Press Release The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 20, 2015 arraigned one Stephen Omaidu before Justice M. A Nasir of Federal Capital Territory High Court sit... Read more
CPJ’s list of 10 Most Censored Countries is part of our annual publication, Attacks on the Press, which will be released in full on Monday, April 27, at 11 a.m. EST. Eritrea and North... Read more
Nairobi, April, 20, 2015-Two journalists were beaten by officers from Kenya’s paramilitary police wing, the General Service Unit (GSU), at a cattle ranch in southeastern Kenya on April... Read more
Press Release The trial at of a former Governor of the state, Aliyu Akwe Doma, and a former Secretary to the state government, Timothy Anthony Anjide, before Justice Agatha A. Okeke of the F... Read more