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.

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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.

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”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.<img src="

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