Adebayo Faleti Is Dead Ace broadcaster, Adebayo Faleti is dead. Aged 86. Old students of Ibadan Boys High School passed on this morning at the famous University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6 a.m. Adebayo Faleti, poet, journalist, writer and actor. He is also known as a Yoruba translator, a broadcaster, TV exponent and a…
Tension Mounts in Owerri
INEC officials and journalists were on Sunday held hostage at the commission’s office in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Tension mounted as news filtered in that a group of protesters believed to be supporters of theĀ APC were advancing towards INEC office from the Asumta Cathedral end of Owerri – Port Harcourt Road. Security officials…
Freed Al Jazeera Journalists Reunite with Families
After being held in prisons custody in Egypt for 411 days, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, both journalists working with Al Jazeera, an international television network, have regained their freedom and reunited with members of their families. The journalists were released on Friday, a day after an Egyptian court granted them bail and slated the…
Journalist kidnapped in Abia
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Ugochukwu Eke, the Umuahia, Abia State Correspondent of The Nation Newspapers. The incident occurred on Sunday at his family house located at Opobo Road, Ogbor Hill, Abia. Eke who went to visit his family over the weekend, was said to be driving into his compound when the hoodlums pounced on him…
MRA Calls on DSS to Charge Journalist to Court
Media Rights Agenda, MRA, Wednesday, September 24, called on the Department of State Security, DSS, and the Niger State government to immediately charge Tega Oghenedoro, a staff of the Nigerian Television Authority, Asaba, Delta State, to court if they have actionable evidence against him. While condemning the DSS for parading him before the media, rather…