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A Togolese court has indefinitely suspended the distribution of a Benin newspaper after crippling it with a defamation charge and heavy fines for publishing an article linking Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé's brother with drug trafficking, report the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ...

The Liberia Media Center (LMC) as part of activities marking its 5th Anniversary has released a baseline study on how the media in Liberia covers conflict related issues.

Editor of one of Sierra Leone's leading newspapers, Independent Observer has been appointed as the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) correspondent in Sierra Leone effective September 1, 2010.

The Federal Government and Environmental Rights Action and Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA) have reacted sharply to the report credited to the United Nations Environmental Programme(UNEP) by the international media that its three-year investigation, conducted and funded with $9.5million by Shell Petroleum Company, had revealed that only 10 percent ...

FACTIONAL former militant group from Sokebolou Yokiri in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday denied media reports by Believe Anumu and Adowei Binebi in the Vanguard Newspapers, that their differences had been resolved, stressing that only an unreserved apology to the community leadership was the answer to resolving ...

Against recent media reports, the National Co-ordinator, Southern Mandate, and a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogor ward, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Prince Alex Oyoro, has said that the party in the ward did not endorse the state Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, as its governorship ...

First Republic Minister and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has denied media reports that he hosted prominent lgbo leaders among whom were Senator Ken Nnamani, Chief Jim Nwobodo, Chief Okeke, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, and former Governor Sam Egwu to a meeting of the South South and South East leaders ...

One increasingly conspicuous irony of contemporary politics and worldview is that one analyst's progressive is almost always another analyst's idiot or despot. The irony is disturbing to most citizens who want to know the exact standing of their country or government. Until five years ago, Liberians would not mind to ...

Rapidement passé l'adhésion euphorique de nos confrères à la très récurrente grille spéciale télévisuelle du mois de Ramadhan annoncée par la direction de «l'imposant» média public, pour n'avoir pas eu l'opportunité ou su exiger, comme cela se fait ailleurs par souci professionnel, de voir d'abord tout ou partie du produit ...

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro, on Tuesday, August 17, issued a statement debunking a misleading report in the British Reuters news agency on President Jonathan's intentions on the 2011 Presidential election.