Nigeria FOIA was enacted in 2011, FOIA is an Act to make public records and information more freely available, provide for public access to public records and information, protect public records and information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the protection of personal privacy, protect serving public officers from adverse consequences of disclosing certain kinds of official information without authorization and establish procedures for the achievement of those purposes and; for related matters.
The Nigerian Press Council, in continuation of its sensitization of journalists and the general public on the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 organised a two day workshop at the Mokland Hotel in Otta, Ogun
The translated versions of the Freedom of Information Act in three Nigerian languages of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, were unveiled on Friday in Abuja by the National Orientation Agency (NOA).
The Nigerian Press Council and the Nigeria Union of Journalists with the support of the Rivers State Government, held a two-day workshop to sensitize journalists in the South-East and South-South zones
