Nigeria’s New FOIA: Reporters Enjoy New Freedoms In A Long-repressive Society-CJR

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                                                                             By Elliot Ross           Journalism in Nigeria has never been easy work, and the new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which finally became law in May twelve years after the bill was first drafted, isn’t about to change that overnight. But having struggled through decades of repression under military rule, advocates of press freedom in Nigeria are in unusually optimistic mood.

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