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The Executive Director of the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, Nigeria, Mr. Lanre Arogundade has advised journalists and other media professionals to proactively balance eagerness for news with safety consciousness as they cover the governorship election in Edo State on Saturday. Arogundade who advised journalists not to forget about ensuring their personal safety during the governorship election also enjoined journalists …

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The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos is calling on security operatives in Calabar to immediately investigate and apprehend alleged perpetrators of recent attacks on journalists working with Akwa Ibom state Broadcasting Corporation (AKBC). Details from Leadership Online Portal has it that, “a news editor with the Akwa Ibom state Broadcasting Corporation (AKBC), Harrison Essien was attacked by gunmen at the …

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The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos has expressed strong concern over reported incidents of attacks on journalists and other media professionals during the Presidential and Senatorial elections held of Saturday February 23, 2019. Information gathered by IPC’s media and election situation room revealed that not less than five journalists and media professionals faced one form of harassment or the other …

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Director of the International Press Centre (IPC), Mr. Lanre Arogundade has enjoined journalists to be security conscious and embrace professionalism as they cover the 2019 general elections. Arogundade gave the advice at a media round-table and presentation of report of monitoring of print and online newspapers’ reporting of the 2019 electoral process. “My appeal is that we must know that …

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The International Press Center, Lagos has demanded the immediate release of Yinka Badmus, a photojournalist with Talk Village International in Lagos. In a report by Vanguard Newspaper dated 11th January, 2019, Badmus, 24 was arrested on New Year eve by policemen attached to the Lagos State Anti-Cultism unit for wearing dreadlocks, which the officers allegedly said made him look like …

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The International Press Centre (IPC) has condemned the attack on the Port Harcourt correspondent of Leadership Newspaper, Anayo Onukwugha. Onukwugha was reportedly assaulted by a soldier on Thursday, November 1, 2018. According to Report by Vanguard Newspapers, “Anayo was assaulted at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State, by a soldier believed to have been drafted from the Presidency …

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Dayo Emmanuel The media has been urged to play active role in combating gender related hate speech though objective and conflict sensitive reporting. The call was made at a media roundtable organised by the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos recently. Themed ‘The role of the media in combating gender related hate speech online through objective and conflict sensitive reporting,’ the …

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The International Press Centre (IPC),based in Lagos, Nigeria, has called on the Senate to drop the proposed hate speech bill that seeks to recommend death sentence for purveyors of hate speech. The bill, which is being sponsored by Senate Spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, proposes that anyone found guilty of any form of hate speech could face death by hanging …

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Dayo Emmanuel Nigerian students have been encouraged to get involved in the country’s electoral process. The call was made at a forum organised by the International Press Centre (IPC) with support from Action Aid and UK Aid. Titled Campus Conversation on governance, elections and related electoral issues, the event held at Ikorodu, Lagos was designed as a dialogue for Lagos …

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