NUJ Archives - Intervention

Bangshika’s Promotion Triggers Gender Celebration In and Outside Nigeria’s National Broadcaster

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2022In: LifeworldTags: BUK, FRCN, NAWOJ, NGE, NIPSS, NUJ, UNIMAIDNo CommentsViews:

Gender equity activists in Nigeria are in a happy, celebratory mood following the elevation of one of theirs, Husseina Akila Bangshika to the position of Director of News of the Federal Radi... Read more

Radical Activists Mourn Nelson Ananze, Late Executive Director, CAPP,

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2022In: LifeworldTags: CAPP, CISLAC, CLO, NUJ, Robert Cox, WINNo CommentsViews:

This story will be withdrawn and reposted as soon as Intervention is able to get a good picture of the late Nelson Ananze. Radical activists in Nigeria are mourning their own share of the sp... Read more

Military Goes After Daily Trust Again, Grabs Its Borno Correspondent, Olatunji Omirin

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Daily Trust, Maiduguri, Maimalari Barrack, NUJNo CommentsViews:

The military authorities are after Abuja based Daily Trust again, a year after invading its headquarters. But, this time, it is Mr. Olatunji Omirin, the Borno State Correspondent of the news... Read more

Nigeria Grapples With a National Definition of Hate/Dangerous (2)

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: CITAD, INEC, NBC, NGE, NHRC, NPAN, NUJNo CommentsViews:

As politicians consciously and unconsciously caress violent ruptures in Nigeria by the reality they constitute through what they say, it is perhaps the most important thing to get to grips w... Read more

CITAD Passes the Torch to CEPAD in Nigeria’s Fireworks on Hate Speeches

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: CDD, CEPAD, CITAD, LASU, NBS, NEXIM, NGE, NTA, NUJ, RATTAWUNo CommentsViews:

There appears to be no let up in the Nigerian civil society’s siege on the phenomenon of hate speeches which peaked in a week long list of activities thereto last week in Abuja. Now, t... Read more

There Must Be a Country Called Nigeria Before You Can be Called Nigerian Journalists – NUJ President’s Riot Act on Hate Speech

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: APCON, CITAD, MacArthur Foundation, NTA, NUJNo CommentsViews:

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), has read what appears to be a riot act on hate speech transmission to its members. NUJ President, Mr Waheed Odusile told an Abuja workshop on hate sp... Read more

COAS, British Parliament, Osinbajo, Tambuwal, Clash on De-escalating Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: AK47, CNN, COAS, NUJNo CommentsViews:

The debate on what the current violence in Nigeria is all about and how best the country can be brought back from the present chaos, fear and uncertainty has escaped into contending options... Read more

INGO, Search for Common Ground Strengthens Human Rights Intervention in the Northeast

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2018In: FlashbackTags: CSOs, NHRC, Niger Delta, NUJNo CommentsViews:

Conflict transforming and peace building international NGO, Search for Common Ground is stepping up its five year old project titled “Constructing Coalitions to Reduce Human Rights Abuse in... Read more

Nigeria: ‘New’ Constitution in 2017?

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Abubakar Balarabe Mahmud, Bauchi, Benue, BORNO, Bukola Saraki, David Mark, INEC, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kogi, NBA, NUJ, Plateau, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, SAN, TanzanianNo CommentsViews:

If what Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, is saying is everything to go by, then the 1999 Constitution will be a new document early 2017. Saraki came out with the potentially good news of... Read more