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TV reporter gunned down while covering Kano suicide bombings

Published on 23 January 2012Read

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TV journalist shot dead in northern city, Islamist group claims responsibility

Published on 25 October 2011Read

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Presidential election being held as attacks on media increase

Reporters Without Borders has recorded more than 30 attacks on media freedom so far this year, despite reforms and the promises of outgoing (...)

Published on 16 April 2011 Read

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US-Nigerian journalist arrested at Lagos airport, passports confiscated for two days

US-Nigerian professor and journalist Okey Ndibe was on 8 January questioned for several hours by the internal intelligence agency, the State (...)

Published on 10 January 2011 Read

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Four kidnapped journalists released unharmed

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its relief at the release yesterday of four Nigerian journalists who were abducted a week early near Aba, (...)

Published on 19 July 2010 Read

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Cameraman found dead in suspicious circumstances

Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply shocked by the death in unexplained circumstances of cameraman Jerry Usanga of Channels (...)

Published on 7 May 2010 Read

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Three journalists killed in a single day

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked to learn that three journalists were killed in two separate incidents on 24 April. Edo Sule Ugbagwu, (...)

Published on 27 April 2010 Read

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Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move

Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s ruling by an Islamic court in Kaduna, in the northern state of Zamfara, ordering a Nigerian human (...)

Published on 24 March 2010 Read

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Negative signs from police investigating newspaper journalist’s murder

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the conduct of the investigation into the murder of Bayo Ohu, the assistant news editor of the (...)

Published on 19 March 2010 Read

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Release of two journalists kidnapped in Niger delta region

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn of the release of the two journalists who were still being held hostage in the southeastern state (...)

Published on 11 March 2010 Read