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Jul

2025

Implement ECOWAS Court Judgment on Blasphemy Laws, MRA Urges FG

NEWS#ACHPR, #AfricanCharter, #Blasphemy, #ECOWAS, #HumanAndPeoples’Rights, #ICCPR, #InternationalCovenantOnCivilandPoliticalRights, #KanoState’sblasphemylaws, #MondayArunsi, #MRA

Implement ECOWAS Court Judgment on Blasphemy Laws, MRA Urges FG Mr. Monday Arunsi, Acting Head of MRA’s Legal DepartmentLagos, Wednesday, July 16, 2025: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent measures to implement and give full effect to the April 9, 2025 judgment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, which declared aspects of Kano State’s blasphemy laws a violation of Nigeria’s obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Urging the Government to promptly comply with the Court’s directive to bring…

Mar

2024

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MRA Challenges ThisDay Newspaper’s View that Court’s Order to Investigate Killing of Dele Giwa, other Journalists is ‘Vacuous’

NATIONAL NEWS#CommunicationsOfficer, #DeleGiwa, #IdowuAdewale, #Journalist, #MRA, #VacuousJudgementOnDeleGiwa

MRA Challenges ThisDay Newspaper’s View that Court’s Order to Investigate Killing of Dele Giwa, other Journalists is ‘Vacuous’ Mr. Idowu Adewale, MRA’s, Communications OfficerMedia Rights Agenda (MRA) has refuted a ThisDay newspaper’s article describing as “vacuous” the February 16, 2024 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja directing the Federal Government to investigate attacks against journalists, including the 1986 gruesome murder of the renowned journalist, Mr. Dele Giwa, as well as prosecute and punish the perpetrators of such attacks. In an unsigned article published on Sunday, February 25, 2024, titled “A Vacuous Judgment on Dele…