Tag: Journalist
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'Trump threatens to punish Saudi Arabia severely if…'
The U.S President, Donald Trump, said in a CBS interview on Saturday that there would be “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Riyadh and legal resident of the United States, disappeared on October…
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Journalist Jones Abiri sues Nigerian govt, demands N200 million
Recently released journalist, Jones Abiri, has demanded a compensation of N200 million from the Nigerian government for his prolonged detention without trial. Mr Abiri’s application was heard on Monday at an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Mr Abiri, a publisher of a Bayelsa State-based weekly paper, Weekly Source, was arrested by operatives of…
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Ukraine under pressure after faking journalist’s death
Ukraine was under fire Thursday after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine that he was alive. Babchenko made a shock reappearance at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the Ukrainian authorities reported he had been shot dead at his…
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Danish inventor gets life sentence for journalist submarine murder
A Copenhagen court on Wednesday found Danish inventor Peter Madsen guilty of the premeditated murder and sexual assault of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine last year, handing him a life sentence. Madsen, 47, had admitted chopping up the 30-year-old’s body and throwing her remains overboard in waters off Copenhagen on the night…
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Journalist shot inside residence near Indian capital
A journalist was shot and wounded critically inside his residence near the Indian capital city New Delhi, police said Monday. The TV journalist Anuj Chaudhary working with a Hindi news channel was shot Sunday evening in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) on the outskirts of New Delhi. “Last evening two assailants came on a motorcycle and barged…
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Journalist, Carl Umegboro sues Abuja DisCo, demands N292m on libel, others
A prolific writer and journalist, Carl Umegboro has dragged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Plc “AEDC” before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory demanding aggregately for N292, 465,000:00 (two hundred and ninety two million, four hundred and sixty five thousand naira only) for nuisance, trespass to chattel, infringement of fundamental rights, defamation of…
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DSS releases detained journalist
The Department of State Services has released the Abuja Bureau Chief of The Independent Newspapers, Mr. Tony Ezimako. He was said to have been released around 10:30pm by the security agency in Abuja on Wednesday night Journalists and members of civil society groups had planned to storm the headquarters of the DSS in Abuja on…
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Kidnappers free wife, son of Nigerian journalist after receiving N2m ransom
The wife and son of a journalist who were kidnapped on Wednesday have been released. The victims were kidnapped when the attackers stormed the Kaduna home of Nasiru Yakubu, a journalist with Voice of America. Recall that a neighbour of Yakubu who tried to stop the kidnappers was killed in the process. Yakubu confirmed the…
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Kidnappers of Nigerian journalist’s wife, son demand N12 million ransom
The abductors of the wife and son of a Nigerian journalist have asked for a N12 million ransom for their release. Nasiru Yakubu, a journalist with Voice of America, Hausa Service, posted on his Facebook wall Wednesday morning that kidnappers stormed his house at Birnin Yero, a small community in Kaduna State, at about 1:30…