An annual state of media freedom report found that security agencies, including the police, military, and intelligence services, were responsible for the highest number of attacks against journalists in 2024
MRA is a non-profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria, working on freedom of expression, media freedom, information access, media development, and internet freedom and governance.
MRA noted in the 137-page report, titled ‘Media Freedom Under Threat: The State of Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety in Nigeria 2024’, that out of a total of 64 attacks against journalists that it recorded in 2022, law enforcement and security agencies were responsible for 29, representing approximately 45 per cent of the attacks; while they were responsible for 34 out of the 77 attacks against journalists it documented in 2023, representing approximately 44 per cent.
According to the report, attacks against the media in 2024 were higher compared to 2022 and 2023.
Out of 64 attacks against journalists recorded in 2022, law enforcement and security agencies were responsible for 29 of them, representing approximately 45 per cent, while they were responsible for 34 out of the 77 attacks against journalists in 2023, representing 44 per cent.
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“It is ironic that the institutions tasked with upholding the rule of law as well as ensuring the safety and security of citizens, including journalists, have instead become the instruments of oppression against the media,” MRA’s programme officer, John Gbadamosi was quoted as saying.
“It is worse still that the pervasive culture of impunity which has ensured a lack of accountability for past attacks has now emboldened these perpetrators to the extent that we are now seeing them at their most horrendous.”
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