On 10 February 2005, agents of the State Security Service (SSS), Nigeria's intelligence agency, raided newsstands on Old Market Road, the main distribution centre for the city of Onitsha, in Anambra State. The SSS agents confiscated large quantities of "The News", "The Source" and "The Week" magazines, as well as copies of "Hallmark" newspaper. They also arrested a newspaper distributor, Ikechukwu Obisi, and took him to an unknown location. The SSS officials, who were from Awka, the state capital, took the action on the grounds that the news vendors were distributing publications carrying stories about the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

The Voice of America, which reaches listeners in northern Nigeria through its Hausa language service, is officially launching a new Kano Reporting Center (KRC) on Feb. 16 2005, in conjunction with a health-reporting workshop for women journalists from Feb. 13-18 2005. The official opening coincides with a four-day workshop for female journalists to be led by Development Communications Network, the leading public health and science journalism training organization in Nigeria. More than a dozen Nigerian women journalists are participating in the workshop focusing on health reporting and covering issues including HIV/AIDS, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria and other epidemics.

As a follow up to the success of the ICT Africa Investment Summit 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Nigerian Government through the Ministry of Communications has agreed to co-host the next Summit (ICT Africa Investment Summit 2005) in Abuja, Nigeria. The theme of the 2005 Summit is: Facilitating private sector investments in the ICT sector in Africa - policy, regulatory and technological challenges. The Summit aims to bring together decision makers, service providers, financial institutions, and other stakeholders in the ICT African sector to address relevant issues that are critical to securing increased investments in Africa.