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Home > Nigeria: House of Representatives again throws out FOI bill

Contributor [1]
Friday, June 6, 2008 - 03:00
Categories: 
Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
378 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Nigeria’s lower legislative chamber, the House of Representatives on June 3, 2008, for the seventh time, refused to take the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill at the Committee of the Whole (Third Reading). This came barely 24 hours after the upper chambers, the Senate, held a Public Hearing on the Bill.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/media/48582 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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