The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has been asked to take urgent steps to protect Richard Oghenerhoro, a whistleblower facing retaliation for exposing and publicising fraudulent employment practice in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing. In a letter addressed to the Minister, the heads of a coalition of civil society…
AFRICMIL, HEDA Build Network Of Journalists For Whistleblowing
By Doyin Ojosipe In a bid to expand the knowledge of journalists on whistleblowing and ensure protection for citizens who dare to blow the whistle, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), in collaboration with the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has organized a workshop on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection for a…
COVID-19: Experts call for whistleblowing in the health sector
By Doyin Ojosipe Stakeholders have been urged to consider whistleblowing as a tool for combatting all dimensions of corrupt practices in the health sector. The charge was given at a webinar organised by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), in collaboration with the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), African Centre…
Whistleblower receives award for integrity and impact
By Doyin Ojosipe A whistle-blower, Murtala Aliyu Ibrahim, has won the 2nd Gani Fawehinmi Impact and Integrity Awards (GFIIA) 2019, for the whistleblowing category. The event which took place in Lagos on Tuesday December 10, 2019, was sponsored by Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre. Last year’s edition of the award was won…
Statement by CWPPF on the occasion of the 2019 international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists
The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) notes the alarming trend of media censorship by state authorities in Nigeria. We observe that public officers and influential individuals are increasingly intolerant of critical reporting and fair comments by journalists. They, therefore, resort to the use of instruments of state criminal justice system to suppress…
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