Sambo Abdullahi, a staff of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc, has won this year’s edition of the Most Valuable Whistleblower Award, in the whistleblowing category, of the annual Gani Fawehinmi Impact and Integrity Award (GFIIA) organised by Human and Environment Development Agenda (HEDA). Abdullahi, a finance and audit expert, joined NBET in 2012…
Eight Journalists, Bonuola and Falana for 15th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting
Eight journalists, Lade Bonuola, founding member and pioneer Associate Editor of The Guardian newspaper, and Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, will be honoured at the award presentation event of the 15th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting holding, on Wednesday, 9 December 2020, at NECA House, Lagos, from 4pm to 6pm. Abigail Ndisika-Ogwezzy, chairperson of…
Wole Soyinka Centre Marks 15th Award Edition with Conference on Media Repression
‘Masked not silenced’ is the theme as the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ marks the 15th anniversary of its award programme with a conference and public presentation of prizes. The conference will hold on Monday and Tuesday as webinars on Zoom from 1 pm to 2:30 pm, while the 2020 public award presentation…
Nigeria: When Press Freedom Violations Become Badge of Dishonour
By Lanre Arogundade “Nigeria’s ranking on the Press Freedom Index continues to sit in the red zone, ranking 115 in the 2020 ranking, an improvement on its 2019 ranking but no less solidly red, the colour used to identify countries that earn the badge of ‘bad’” – Adenike Aloba A reading, digest, and analysis of…
Escalation of Threats Against Human Rights Activists Putting Nigeria in Negative Global Spotlight
Press Statement The undersigned coalition of Civil Society Organisations working to promote democracy, human rights and accountable governance hereby express grave concerns about the rise in the level of attacks targeted at human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners especially since the start of the #EndSARS protests. Despite the local and global condemnations, which have trailed…