10th July, 2024 – The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) commends the recent judgement of Abuja Federal high court sitting which discharged and acquitted the publisher of Cross River watch newspaper, Agba Jalingo who in a defamatory…
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has called on the Nigerian and other African governments that have yet to enact whistleblower protection laws to take urgent steps to do so to encourage their citizens to expose corrupt…
By Godwin Onyeacholem Cynics – or critics if you like – would argue that if there was any doubt, there is none now: Unrestrained by ethics as well as domestic and international legal obligations, the Tinubu administration, speaking through George…
The Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda, Mr Edetaen Ojo, has cautioned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr George Akume, to stop making threats against whistleblowers. Ojo, who was responding to a recent threat made by Akume…
Journalists and civil society organisations sometimes rely on such leaks to expose corruption and wrongdoings within the government. By Premium Times and Agency Report The Nigerian government has threatened to jail government employees who leak official documents, a move that…
By Nnenna Okonkwo African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Development center (CITAD) held a one-day anti-corruption workshop June 27, 2024, for women groups and people with disabilities in Kano…