Posts Tagged ‘nigeria’
May 4th, 2010
Four Nigerian journalists received anonymous
death threats via text message on 28 April. The journalists, Yusuf Ali, Olusola Fabiyi, Chuks Okocha and Gbenga Aruleba, all covered the dismissal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Maurice Iwu. Iwu has denied any involvement with the threats. The text message referenced the
three slain Nigerian journalists stating: “We will deal with you soon. Remember Dele Giwa, Bayo Ohu, and Edo Ugbagwu?”
April 27th, 2010
Three
journalists were killed in two separate incidents on Saturday. Nathan S Dabak and Sunday Gyang Bwede from the Light Bearer, owned by the
Church of Christ in Nigeria, were
stabbed to death by Muslim rioters in the town of Jos. The town has been the centre of inter-religious violence, which has killed an estimated 1,500 people this year. In a separate incident, Edo Ugbagwu, a court reporter for the Nation, was
shot dead at his home in Laos by two gunmen. It is unclear whether his killing was related to his journalism.
April 16th, 2010
A Nigerian journalist has been
attacked while filming clashes in the build-up to elections in Ekiti State. Felix Vincent, a cameraman for the Nigerian broadcaster Channels Television, sustained a deep cut to the head during an attack on the vehicle of the Action Congress governorship candidate. The International Press Institute said that it is “unacceptable that journalists be attacked simply because they are doing their job”. Last month,
three sports journalists were abducted in the Niger Delta region while travelling to an airport in Owerri
February 15th, 2010
Mallam Tukur, editor and publisher of Desert Herald, an independent weekly in Kaduna state, has been
arrested and threatened with prosecution on defamation charges. The
Committee to Protect Journalists claim the threats are related to a recent article accusing Yobe’s
Governor Ibrahim Geidam of corruption.
September 23rd, 2009
Cinemas in the Nigerian capital, Abuja have been asked by the Information Minister Dora Akunyili to stop screening sci-fi blockbuster District 9 as it discriminates against Nigerians by negatively portraying them as violent gangsters and criminals.
Akunyili has also asked for an apology from Sony Pictures, and requested that they edit out all references to Nigeria in the film, as well as the name of the gangster Obasanjo, which bears resemblance to that of the Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Read more
here
July 2nd, 2009
Six journalists were harassed and beaten preventing them from reporting on the demolition of several buildings on government land in Nigeria. Read more
here
June 9th, 2009
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed a $15.5 million (£9.7million) out-of-court settlement in a case accusing it of complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria including the hanging of anti-oil campaigner and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. Read more
here
May 27th, 2009
14 years after Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa’s was hanged along with eight other community leaders, his family take oil giant Shell to court for crimes against humanity over its activities in the oil-rich Niger Delta of southern Nigeria. Read more
here
