•US visa The United States Government has announced plans to shorten the validity period of visas issued to international students and foreign journalists. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the proposed rule would cap F visas, which allow foreign students to study in the U.S, at a maximum of four years. At present, [&hell...
Israeli air raids on Southern Gaza have killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, working with international media organisations. This attack is one of the deadliest attacks on press workers since the conflict began, reports AFP. Officials at the Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that this morning’s strikes devastated the hospital ...
•Five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel Condemnations poured in from the United Nations and media rights groups yesterday after an Israeli strike killed an Al Jazeera news team in Gaza, as Palestinians mourned the journalists and Israel accused one of them of being a Hamas militant. Dozens of Gazans stood amid bombed-out buildings in [&h...
•Tinubu Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has decried what it described as an alarming escalation of attacks on media freedom and civic expression, particÂularly through the misuse of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act by law enÂforcement agencies to silence or punish journalists and critÂics under the administration of President Bola ...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja Journalists accredited to cover the National Assembly were today barred from accessing the House of Representatives press gallery to monitor the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s scheduled address before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representative. The president is expected to deliver his Democracy D...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun On Monday, operatives of the Rivers State Police Command brutalised five Port Harcourt-based journalists reporting for different media houses. The newsmen were attacked while covering the #Take-it-Back protest that held nationwide following the recent unconstitutional decisions of the federal government, especially, the d...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Rivers State Police Command to tender an unreserved public apology over the assault on five journalists during a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt or risk a statewide media blackout. In a statement jointly signed by the Council Chairman, Comrade ...
•Police fire teargas at peaceful protesters Officers of the Rivers State Police Command this morning fired teargas at protesters gathered at the Isaac Boro Park in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The protesters who are members of the ‘Take It Back Movement’ were greeted by heavy police presence when they gathered at the protest [&hell...
•Bandits MOHAMMED IBRAHIM YABA, Kaduna reporting for Daily Trust The journey began on Thursday, December 20, 2024 when I received a call from my office, instructing me to prepare for a meeting with some bandit kingpins willing to engage in peace talks near the Rijana area of Kaduna State. As a journalist covering insecurity, particularly [&hel...
•Gunmen Gunmen on Thursday evening abducted three relations of former Daily Trust Editor, Malam Ahmed Ajobe. The victims include a male and two females, including Ajobe’s immediate younger sister, Halimtu-Sadiya Tahir, reports Channels TV. They were abducted on their way from a nearby community market in Awo, Ankpa Local Government Area of Kog...
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