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Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said he supports the Freedom of Information Bill and called on the media to be accountable to the public in the reportage of events and activities in society.

Witch-hunts targeting children in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria have recently received an unprecedented amount of media attention. While this attention has prompted national and international organizations to take legal action against witch-hunts, powerful evangelical activists remain the underlying catalyst for spreading beliefs that promote the killing and torture of thousands ...

Contrary to widespread reports over the media that the Federal Government is going to start implementation of a new national minimum wage by July, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the conception was wrong.

The Action Congress (AC) has said it will be a mistake of epic proportion if President Goodluck Jonathan goes ahead to appoint Information and Communications Minister Dora Akunyili as the Chairperson of INEC, as being speculated in the media.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied media reports making the round that it is being influenced by the presidency in selecting those for prosecution or investigation.

FORMER Senate President, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim has described as untrue, recent publications in the media insinuating that he is being wooed by some governors to step in and occupy the position of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, being vacated by Prince Vincent Ogbulafor.

The acting Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Psychiatiec Hospital, Dr.Akwasi Osei, has tasked the media to push the government into passing the Mental Health Bill into law. According to him, the bill has adequate human right provisions and will ensure adequate provision of resources.

Aid agencies and donors have warned of the possibility of a famine in Niger, evoking images of the last food crisis in the Sahelian country in 2005. Some media organizations have already pronounced the current crisis a famine. So, what exactly is a famine?

At last, former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, has broken his silence on the annulled June 12, 1993 election. Babangida, who before now had refused to apologise on the annulment, spoke through his Special Adviser on Media, Kassim Afegbua, where he described himself as a victim of the annulment saga.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is not in a life-threatening condition, the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague clarified yesterday following publications in the Liberian media.