Journalists, MRA decry interference

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Journalists, MRA decry interference
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Journalists and Media Rights Agenda (MRA) have flayed governments and their agencies for interfering and impeding the work of journalists in Nigeria.

Journalists and Media Rights Agenda have flayed governments and their agencies for interfering and impeding the work of journalists in Nigeria.Journalists and Media Rights Agenda have flayed governments and their agencies for interfering and impeding the work of journalists in Nigeria.

The workshop was supported by MacArthur Foundation through the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion and Accountability Project, a multi-level intervention that supports media independence, improved transparency, accountability, and good governance in state and local governments.

The participants deplored the widespread arrests, brutalisation, harassment and intimidation of journalists covering #EndBadGovernance protests in various parts of the country, mostly by law enforcement and security officials, describing such actions as an unacceptable violation of the rights of journalists.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities.

Contrary to the early directive by the Ogun State government that job seekers should pay a fee to the state government’s covers for the ongoing job recruitment, the state governor, Dapo Abiodun... A coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations has alleged the Federal Government's political interest as part of the factors that worsened #EndBadGovernance protest in Kano. The five organizations in a statement issued Thursday in Kano worried that an unhealthy relationship between the ruling political party and the state government aggravated the situation in Kano. The coalition includes…

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