Tag: Journalist
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Court softens journalist Abiri bail condition
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday softened the bail conditions for a Bayelsa based journalist, Mr Jones Abiri. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on June 24, Abiri was arraigned on a three-count charge of terrorism, economic sabotage and fraud. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had earlier granted him N100 million bail with…
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Police quiz journalist over report on ex-lawmaker
Barely two weeks after Police stray bullet killed Precious Owolabi a corper reporter of the Channels TV opposite the National Assembly Complex, another journalist, Oke Epia, Editor in Chief of Order Paper has been detained by police attached to the National Assembly. Epia who honoured the police invitation over an alleged false publication in his…
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Media, civil society coalition warns Nwulu over harassment of journalists
The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom has condemned the harassment of staff of OrderPaper Nigeria by ex-lawmaker, Tony Nwulu. Mr. Nwulu for over a week has mounted attacks against OrderPaper Nigeria over a story he considers unfavourable. He has been issuing threats to the publisher of the medium, Oke Epia. The coalition which…
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Veteran Sports journalist, Akinloye Oyebanji, dies at 62
Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanj, has died at the age of 62. His family confirmed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Oyebanji, passed on at National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning after protracted battle with heart failure. Mr Bukoye Oyebanji and Dr Steve Olarinoye, family member…
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Gunmen attack Somali hotel, kill prominent journalist, 25 others
At least 26 people, including a prominent journalist and several foreigners, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia. A suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosives into the Asasey hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed the building Journalist Hodan Naleyah and her husband are thought to…
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Again, DSS arrest Journalist Abiri in Bayelsa
Four armed men suspected to be operatives of Directorate of Security Services (DSS) on Saturday whisked away a journalist, Jones Abiri, to an disclosed location. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abiri, the publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper, who was incaserated for two years on charges of terrorism in the past, was whisked…
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Kidnapped journalist’s wife, three others regain freedom
The wife of Suleiman Abubakar, the Nasarawa state chairman of the Correpondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and three other women abducted along Gudi-Keffi Road on Wednesday, have regained their freedom. Samaila Usman, the Police Public Relations Officer in Nasarawa told journalists on Friday in Lafia that the victims were released by their…
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Kano Supplementary Poll: Investigate attack on voters, journalists, AI tells FG
Human rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the Nigerian government to investigate the violent attack on voters and journalists during the supplementary governorship election in Kano State on Saturday. The group made the demand in a message posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “Amnesty International is calling Nigerian authorities @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo to investigate allegations of…
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Gunmen attack Nigerian journalist, abduct wife, three other women
Gunmen on Wednesday attacked Suleiman Abubakar, Chairman of Correspondents’ chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Nasarawa state and abducted his wife, Yahanasu Abubakar. Mr Suleiman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened at about 7 p.m. along Gudi-Garaku road in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state. According to…
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Onnoghen: Any journalist who misrepresent trial will remain in prison till I retire – CCT chairman
The Chairman of the Code of Conduct of Tribunal, Danladi Umar, has threatened to imprison journalists who misrepresent the ongoing proceedings on the trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Onnoghen is being prosecuted before the CCT by the Federal Government on charges of false and non-declaration of assets. Reacting to…