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Nigerian Elections: Journalists detained, harassed, assaulted

. CPJ emailed Mr Adewale for comment but received an error message stating that his account was no longer active.

“We told them we are journalists and we are covering [the] election,” Mingyi told CPJ. “They did not harm us, but they denied us access to go do our rightful duties.”issued on the Nigerian army’s Facebook page by Njoka Irabor, the army’s acting assistant director of public relations, said “no journalist was held hostage” and the journalists’ car was stopped as part of “routine checks on vehicles as part of security measures during the elections.

After witnessing Mr Sanni photograph children holding voting cards, the men took him aside, charged his phone because it had died, searched through his apps , and deleted images, Sanni said. Collin Ossai, a broadcast reporter with the privately owned Channels TV station, told CPJ that he, his cameraperson, and a radio journalist with Speed FM were blocked from reporting at a polling station in the Esan Central local government area in Edo state.

In Kaduna State, a group of more than 20 men attacked Shinzong Bala, a reporter with the publicly funded Radio Nigeria station, and Amos Tauna, a reporter with the privately owned Daily Post newspaper, while they were investigating alleged election-related arrests and burning cars around the town of Zonkwa’s police station, Messrs Bala and Tauna told CPJ.

 

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Shame, big shame. Aren't they overwhelmed by how much disgrace they've put us in already? This wickedness should not go unpunished

Those in authority in Nigeria hate to hear the truth, that is why they harass and intimidate our journalists.

Nigeria’s elections is anything evil, anything sad, anything heartbreaking. It is such a big shame that we practice democracy yet we don’t have democrats only desperately evil over ambitious men who would do anything to hold unto power for selfish gains. God is watching them💔🇳🇬

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