Abia State Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has released about N6bn for the completion of ongoing and newly awarded road projects in the state. This was disclosed in a…
journalists
Given the sensitive duties of journalists in giving vent to the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression for which the institution has been dubbed the fourth estate of the realm, the spate of violence unleashed on Nigerian journalists in recent times calls for concern. And although journalists are part of a larger society that is being daily dehumanised by insecurity in the land, the governments of the federation at all levels need to be more proactive to journalists’ welfare and safety than they presently are.
This month alone, two journalists have been victims of kidnapping in a manner suggesting that pen-pushing professionals are now the toast of abductors. The Punch newspaper correspondent, Mr. Okechukwu Nnodim was kidnapped on February 3, 2021 by armed men who stormed his compound in the Arab Road area of Kubwa in Abuja; while Chidiebere Onye, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority was kidnapped on February 9, 2021 in Rivers State while return