The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the harassment of the leader of a citizens group by the Department of State Services (DSS) for exercising their fundamental right to request information from the government under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011, describing the act of intimidation as unlawful and aimed at undermining the very principles of transparency and accountability that the Act is designed to uphold.
The DSS in Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos State is reported to have called one of the conveners of Ibeju-Lekki Peoples Forum, Mr. Jamiu Olayinka, on telephone in the morning of September 12, 2024 and asked him to report at the DSS office in Ibeju-Lekki at 10am that same day.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried latest intimidation and harassment of members of the union in the ongoing coverage of protest over #EndBadGovernance, reports ITREALMS.
A press statement from NUJ, informed ITREALMS that the series of protests that rocked many parts of the country on Thursday and Friday the 1st and 2nd of August 2024, witnessed Nigerian journalists in their numbers who went out as required by the demands of the profession to cover the events but ended being harassed.
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, has appealed to South African authorities to intervene and halt the constant harassment and molestation of Nigerians in rainbow nation.
The Governor made this appeal while hosting the Consul-General of the Republic of South Africa to Nigeria, Prof. Bobby J Moroe, and his Vice Consul, Ms Busisiwe Dlamini at the Government House, Osogbo, described the hostile attitude to Nigerians as “quite disturbing” and “a threat to the historical bond and brotherhood between the two countries.
The Spokesperson to the Osun State Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed has tendered unreserved apologies to the Ogun State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) for the reported unruly conduct of some security men at the Joga-Orile chieftaincy event.
On behalf of the State Governor, I apologize to the Ogun State Secretary of the NUJ and any other journalist who may have been affected by the incident.
