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- 27 Aug 2018
MRA Inducts NIPOST into its ‘FOI Hall of Shame’ for Violating FOI
Media Rights Agenda today named the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for the institution’s failure to comply with its duties and obligations…
- 9 Apr 2018
MRA Inducts Voice of Nigeria into FOI ‘Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the Voice of Nigeria (VON) into its Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame, accusing it of failing to promote the FOI Act and ensuring its effective…
- 18 Oct 2017
MRA Inducts NIMC into FOI Hall of Shame
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has inducted the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) into its Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame, saying it was recognizing the agency for its determined…
- 11 Jun 2018
MRA Inducts Onu’s Science and Tech Ministry into‘FOI Hall of Shame’
The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology under the leadership of Dr. Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu has been inducted into the ‘FOI Hall of Shame’ by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) for alleged blatant…
- 24 Sept 2018
MRA Idnucts NBC into FOI Hall of Shame
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today named the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) this week’s inductee into the “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, saying that its overall performance in the…
- 25 Oct 2017
MRA Inducts Federal Civil Service Commission into ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today inducted the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, accusing the Government’s oversight body for the civil…
- 17 Jul 2017
Information Ministry Bags “FOI Hall of Shame” Award
The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture on Monday joined the growing list of public officials and institutions accused of undermining the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information (FOI)…
- 5 Nov 2018
MRA Inducts CommTech into ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has inducted the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, accusing the Ministry of extremely poor performance…
- 21 Aug 2018
MRA Inducts NSE into its ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) monday accused the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) of showing complete nonchalance towards the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 as it inducted the institution into its…
- 5 Mar 2018
MRA Inducts NLRC into FOI Hall of Shame
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) as this week’s inductee into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame” for consistently violating the…
- 15 Feb 2013
NIMASA Trains Staff on Implementation of FOI Act
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has trained some of its staff on information handling under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2011 regime. Hajyia Lami Tumaka, deputy…
- 23 Mar 2016
FG Unveils FoI Website
Federal government on Wednesday in Abuja launched a re-designed Bureau of Public Service Reform (BPSR) website with a freedom of information portal to receive FOI requests. The initiative was…
- 24 Dec 2020
FOI: NGO Drags Bank to Court over Information
Citizens Awareness against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative (CAACASVI), anti-corruption vanguard group, has sued a bank for non disclosure of information, under the Freedom of Information (FOI)…
- 25 Jul 2025
NDPC Hides MultiChoice Privacy Violation Details Despite FOI Request- FIJ
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has refused to release details of the data and privacy rights violation for which it fined MultiChoice Nigeria, despite receiving a Freedom of Information…
- 1 Sept 2021
EU, British Council to Train Online Publishers on FOI Act
No fewer than 50 publishers of online newspapers are expected in Abuja, Thursday for capacity building on the provisions and application of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act. The training is…
- 15 Apr 2014
MRA Launches FOI App on Android Devices
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has launched an Application to enable users of android powered mobile devices to download the Freedom of Information Act 2011 to their handsets, tablets and other devices.…
- 3 Feb 2017
Paradigm Initiative Makes FoI Request on Nigeria's "Eavesdropping" Satellites
The Paradigm Initiative on Thursday, in Abuja, submitted a letter to the Minister of Communications on the alleged eavesdropping capabilities of one of the two satellites that Nigeria plans to build…
- 10 Nov 2017
CSO Sends FoI Request To NCC
Following the alleged plans to block online news sites, the Paradigm Initiative has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Nigerian Communications Commission asking the Commission to…
- 19 Sept 2024
PMCRG Invokes FoI, Asks NCC to Disclose Findings on Telecoms Competition Landscape
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Research Group (PMCRG), a specialised research arm within Obafemi Awolowo University’s (OAU) Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) ICT-Driven Knowledge Park, has formally…
- 22 Jun 2013
Archivist Ties Successful FoI Regime to Records Mgt
Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) in line with its mandate to promote records and archives management for human development in Lagos State and the entire country held the third edition…
- 29 Jun 2017
FoI: PIN Gets Leave in Case against FG over Spying Satellites
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted Paradigm Initiative, the leave to apply for judicial relief and compelled the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to show cause on its refusal…
- 1 Mar 2022
CSOs Call Out NIMC, NCC for “Ignoring” FOI Request on Security Agencies Accessing Citizens’ Data
Paradigm Initiative (PIN) and Ikigai Innovation Initiative (Ikigai Nation), two civil society organisations (CSOs) have said that the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and the Nigerian…
- 22 Sept 2016
PIN Sends FOI Request to INEC Over Release of Citizens’ Data to Third Party
As part of its core objectives as a stakeholder and practitioner in the ICT sector in Nigeria, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria is at the centre of advocacy efforts to ensure that not only do technologies…
- 20 Feb 2018
MRA Inducts TCN into ‘Hall of Shame’ for Power Outages
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) as this week’s inductee into the Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame for leaving Nigerians in the dark over its…
- 25 Feb 2016
NCC Urges New Media Practitioners to Study Cybercrime Act
Social Media Week Lagos 2016 has provided the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) opportunity to explain its regulatory postures with regards to social media, freedom of information (FoI), and…
- 12 Jul 2020
COVID-19: SERAP Asks Court to Compel Govs to Fund Healthcare with Security Votes
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to “direct and compel 36 state governors to use public funds budgeted for security…
- 15 Sept 2014
SERAP Asks CBN to Provide Information on Money Laundering to Boko Haram
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has issued a Freedom of Information request to Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) asking him to “urgently…
- 5 Jul 2026
SERAP Asks Akpabio, Abbas for Explain N1.3Bn Budgeted for ‘Fictitious’ Presidential Council
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Godswill Akpabio, Senate President, and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the House of Representatives, seven days to explain how over N1.3…
- 15 Oct 2014
SERAP Seeks Court Order to Compel CBN to Name Boko Haram Sponsors
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) yesterday asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to name the persons behind an alleged money…
- 8 Jan 2018
Group Tackles Mobil over $600m Oil Bloc
A non-governmental organisation, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), has requested for clarification on the renewal of some oil mining leases in possession of Mobil…