Nigeria - Information increasingly a rare commodity in Nigeria

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed about the glaring gaps in domestic news coverage in Nigeria in the run-up to the 14 February presidential election, especially in the northeastern state of Borno, where the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has been carrying out massacres. The scarcity of news coverage is tacitly tolerated by the government although the public's need for information is greater than ever in such times of political unrest and violence. In Kambari, a village just 5 km (...)

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