"It has been over a week since Segun’s abduction, yet his whereabouts are still unknown. His phone was switched off and no one has contacted his distressed family."
The deceased journalists, over whom MRA lodged the suit, include: Mr. Tunde Oladepo, Bureau Chief of The Guardian newspaper’s Ogun State office, killed in Abeokuta on February 26, 1998; Mr. Okezie Amauben, publisher of Newsservice magazine, reportedly arbitrarily shot and killed by a police officer in Enugu on September 2, 1998;
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja will Thursday hear a suit filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Nigerian Government to properly investigate the unresolved killings of 11 journalists killed over a period of two decades. The journalists were killed between 1998 and 2019 under circumstances relating
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Abuja, has fixed May 19 for the hearing of a suit filed by Media Rights Agenda, MRA, seeking to compel the Federal Government to investigate the unresolved issue of 11 journalists killed over a period of two decades, as well identify and prosecute their killers.
The regional court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has fixed Friday, May 19, 2023, for hearing in a suit seeking to compel the Federal Government to properly investigate the unresolved killings of 11 journalists over 20 years while discharging their duties. The suit filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) also sought an order of the court compelling the government of Nigeria to identify and prosecute their killers.