The National Service Authority (NSA) has secured a 10-day injunction from the High Court, barring The Fourth Estate from publishing a series of investigative stories scheduled to begin on December 3, 2024.

About 12 hours before the release of the first report, a court bailiff served the Media Foundation for West Africa, which runs The Fourth Estate project, with the injunction.

The court order stated: “IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant/Respondents, its privies, servants, agents, assigns, and interested parties are hereby restrained from putting out any purported investigative report concerning the Plaintiff/Applicant and its staff until their side of the subject matter of the investigations is heard and included in the said report.”

The Fourth Estate had announced on November 29 that it would publish a series of reports on the NSA this week. However, the NSA filed an injunction application on December 2 and obtained the court order without prior notice to The Fourth Estate.