Partnering with the MacArthur Foundation and the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called for enhanced legal safeguards to protect Nigerian journalists from harassment and intimidation.
Under the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion and Accountability (CMEDIA), the two-day workshop with participants and facilitators had journalists proposing capacity building and training programmes for judges, judicial officers as well as prosecutors on media laws and their role in democracy.