Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the rise in human rights abuses in the country. Atiku stated this in a release signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, lamenting that citizens were being arrested in […]
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Popular international broadcaster, Cable News Network, CNN, has filed a lawsuit in a U.S District Court, against the United States President, Donald Trump, and some top White House Aides for barring Jim Acosta, its correspondent. The suit is seeking the immediate restoration of Acosta’s access to the White House. “The wrongful revocation of these credentials […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State Monday explained that he has never called any journalisits to query a news report because he is a “believer of press freedom.” The Governor who stated this when members of Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council, paid him a courtesy visit. He pledged […]
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A Nigerian man stabbed two Danish journalists in Gabon, allegedly saying it was a revenge attack against the United States for recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The assailant wounded the reporters for the National Geographic channel at a market popular with tourists in Libreville, the capital of the central African country, according to the Gabon […]
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Following the invasion of the Abia state chapter of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) by some soldiers deployed to the state, some of the affected journalists have recounted how they were slapped and their valuables destroyed on Tuesday. The journalists said about 20 soldiers, who were on a show of force, invaded the NUJ hall […]
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Some soldiers of the Nigerian army have reportedly surrounded the home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in Umuahia, Abia state, brutalising journalists in the precess. The presence of troops in Kanu’s hometown is the second of such in three days as they had earlier clashed with his supporters on […]
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Some political thugs invaded the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council on Sunday, injured journalists, vandalised properties and disrupted a press briefing by some APC chieftains in the state. The thugs were said to have over powered policemen at the entrance to the NUJ secretariat where Senators Shehu Sani and […]
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Fifteen Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on Friday in Abuja called on security agencies to protect journalists and commentators from attacks by politicians. The NGOs, in a statement said that recent development in Nigeria had cast the relationship between government and journalists as well as public commentators “in a disturbing veil of growing anxiety and tension’’. They […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army says its attention has been drawn to some online publications alleging that Soldiers of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army and personnel of the Department of State Services (DSS) Edo State command of arresting and molesting 10 journalists in Benin, Edo State earlier today. According to the statement released by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, […]
Continue ReadingAhmed Salkida, a Nigerian journalist prominent for his access to the Boko Haram terrorists has been declared wanted by the Nigerian Army.Also wanted by the army as announced on its Twitter page, are Ahmed Bolori and Aisha Wakil. Sani Usman, army spokesman, disclosed this in a statement, saying the trio are being wanted for having links […]
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