A cameraman in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, was killed by gunmen on Saturday evening at the home of a couple whose wedding he had been filming, local news reports said. Chuks Ogu, 39, had worked as a journalist for the privately-owned Independent Television, the Leadership newspaper reported. He was killed when gunmen burst into […]

Channels TV journalist Eneche Akogwu was killed in Kano city in Northern Nigeria last week while covering the aftermath of a major terrorist attack. Akogwu, 31, was a reporter and journalist for the privately-owned station. Members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the explosions, which killed over 170 people, reports say. This […]

A journalist in Nigeria has been arrested and will be sued for libel over an article he wrote revealing alleged corruption in the Nigerian Football Federation. Olajide Fashikun, editor of the National Accord newspaper in the capital Abuja, was arrested by a plain clothes police officer, after he wrote a series of articles about a […]

Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) cameraman Alhaji Zakariyya Isa was killed in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, apparently by members of the Islamist Boko Haram group, according to reports citing the Nigerian authorities. Two gunmen reportedly followed Isa, who worked as a Hausa translator and newscaster, from the mosque where he had just […]