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Category: Press Release/ Communique

LAST WEEK TO SUBMIT ENTRY FOR 2025 AMDF JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has extended the deadline for submissions to its annual media awards. Entries will now be accepted until October 12, 2025. BACKGROUND Africa Media Development…
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Press Release: AMDF Condemns Arrest And Detention Of Nigerian Journalist, Idibia

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has closely followed the events leading to the arrest and detention of Achadu Gabriel Idibia, a staff of Daybreak Newspapers stationed in Kaduna, Nigeria. Idibia…
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AMDF Frowns Ban On News Coverage At Aso Rock Villa

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has observed with serious reservation the recent withdrawal of accreditation tags and the ban of twenty-five journalists representing different media organizations from covering the activities…
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Press Freedom Day 2022

Today, at Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), we salute journalists in Africa, and others around the world, who remain in the frontline to practice journalism, despite the attacks, threats, imprisonment,…
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AMDF Sensitises Officers of the Nigeria Police on Kaduna VAPP Law

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) on Thursday, in Kaduna, held a Capacity Building session for Officers of the Nigeria Police, Kaduna State Command, on Gender Based Violence (GBV), and the…
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Introducing Our Newest Project: Strengthening Capacity of Journalists in Kaduna on Reporting Food Security

Kaduna, Nigeria (05/10/2021): A recent report by the World Food Programme (WFP) reveals that Nigeria and 22 other countries across the globe would experience acute food insecurity in the last…
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MRA Sues National Broadcasting Commission, Challenges its Power to Regulate Social Media Platforms

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the legal authority of the broadcast regulatory body, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC),…
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WPFD: AMDF Reaffirms Committment To Press Freedom

Every year, May 3rd is set aside as a day to call to mind the principles of journalism and the many challenges confronting the media in the discharge of their…
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NBC Must Revoke Sanction Against Nigerian Private Broadcasters, AMDF Says

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) must immediately withdraw the fine against Arise TV, AIT and Channels TV over the coverage of the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. The NBC released a…
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