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Deputy British High Commissioner Urges CSOs, Nigerians to Use FOI Act

KADUNA, Friday, 27 January 2012:  The Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Giles Lever, yesterday in Kaduna called on civil society organizations and ordinary Nigerians to take advantage of the Freedom of Information Act to demand accountability from their government. Full Story .....
 

MRA Holds Workshop FOI Act for CSOs

LAGOS, Thursday, January 26, 2012:  A two-day workshop for representatives of civil society organizations in the northern states of Nigeria on how to use the Freedom of Information Act opens in Kaduna today. Organized by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom through the British High Commission in Abuja, the workshop will bring together participants from among civil society organizations (CSOs), including community based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs) and other grassroots organizations in the North East, North West and North Central zones of the country. Full Story .....

Media Rights Agenda holds Sensitization Workshops on the Freedom of Information Act

LAGOS, Wednesday, January 25, 2012:  The first in a series of sensitization workshops aimed at familiarizing various sectors of the Nigerian society with the Freedom of Information Act and increasing their usage of the Law begins in Kaduna tomorrow. Full Story .....

MRA Launches FOI Act for Mobile Phones

Lagos, Tuesday, November 15, 2011:  Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today launched an Application to enable mobile phone users to download the entire Freedom of Information Act 2011 from its website to their handsets in an easy-to-navigate format. Full Story ....

Gunmen Kill Television Cameraman

On 22 October 2011 at about 8.00 p.m. local time, Alhaji, Zakariya Isa, a cameraman with the federal government-owned Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), was killed by three gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Islamic Sect locally known as Boko Haram at his residence in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in North-east Nigeria   Full Story .....

Please follow the links below to watch the video of sessions of the APAI meeting and conference adoption of the African Platform on Access to Information
Windhoek Wins & the ATI Agenda (Part 5).flv - YouTube and
Africa Information and Media Summit (Part 3- Edetaen Ojo ...