Tag: Journalist
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Press freedom is less important to the journalist, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. THE most fundamental human right to the journalist is life, followed by the right to wages or income. These are the foundations on which his profession and the freedom of expression are built. A journalist with a perpetually rumbling stomach cannot be a reliable soldier of press freedom. At best, he…
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Sad! Journalist shot in Lokoja
A reporter with the Sun Newspaper, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has been shot. He was on his way to the Nigerian Union of Journalists Secretariat when he was shot. The drive-by shooters also shot another bystander, whose identity could not be directly ascertained. The passerby was said to have just arrived from Benue and caught up in…
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Appellate court hears Journalist brutality case against bank, Police seven years after judgment appeal
The Abuja Court of Appeal yesterday heard the appeal against judgment in the Fundamental Human Rights suit between Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), a Journalist, Desmond Utomwen, and six others. The appellate court hearing comes 11 years after Desmond Utomwen, who was then staff of TheNEWS Magazine, was in December, 2009…
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Obasanjo, Trump would have responded more harshly, Fani-Kayode defends rascally attack on journalist
Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has defended his outrageous verbal assault on Daily Trust’s correspondent, Eyo Charles at a press conference over a question in Calabar, Cross River State. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the PDP chieftain had in a press conference held in Cross River State in a viral video leaked on Tuesday seen…
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VIRAL VIDEO: ‘You are very stupid,’ Fani-Kayode gets furious, attacks journalist on live TV
Former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode last week verbally assaulted Daily Trust’s correspondent, Eyo Charles at a press conference over a question in Calabar, Cross River State. The PDP chieftain had held a press conference in Cross River State at the end of his tour of states in the South-South region controlled by the party.…
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Massive killings ongoing under your curfew, journalist writes El-Rufai
A journalist and prolific writer, Mr Reuben Buhari, has written an open letter to Kaduna state governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, over the killing of the Southern Kaduna people despite several curfews imposed on the area. Residents say the atrocities being meted on the Southern Kaduna people despite several curfew that have been imposed by…
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Journalist abducted from home, macheted, abandoned to die
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has confirmed the murder of a journalist, Mr Maxwell Nashan, who was abducted from his home in Yola by yet to be identified people and then abandoned hours later near his office, with machete cuts and bruises and unconscious. He did not survive the ordeal.The Adamawa Chairman of NUJ,…
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Unusual 2020 Budget defence: Secrecy rules as journalists are chased out of venues
By Emman Ovuakporie The defence of budget estimates in the ninth Assembly is fast taking a different shape as hearings are conducted secretly and journalists chased out of venues. Since last week that the Senate started attending to Ministries Departments and Agencies of Government, journalists have been barred from covering major Ministries. The latest…
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Journalist drags DSS to court over alleged Illegal detention
Mr Chido Onumah, a journalist and rights activist, on Wednesday, sued the Department of State Security Services (DSS), over alleged illegal detention. In a suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1270/2019 filed by his Lawyer, Moses Ideh, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Onumah sought the enforcement of his fundamental human rights to dignity of his person, right to…