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•By Halimah Olamide Stakeholders at the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) journalism and society conversations have urged media and journalists to embrace digital tools, be ethical in their reporting, and take advantage of support groups to stay safe doing their work in this digital age. The event which held on Thursday, 2 November 2023, on X (formerly Twitter) was organised to commemorate the 2023 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Featuring in the conversation are stakeholders including Tunde Akanni, Director of the Digital Media Research Centre at Lagos State University; Kolapo Olapoju, Editor at TheCable;…

Israel’s communications minister has accused four freelance Gaza-based journalists who have worked with Western outlets of knowing that Hamas was going to attack Israel. Shlomo Karhi told Reuters, AP, CNN and the New York Times that “individuals within your organization… had prior knowledge of these horrific actions”. Reuters, AP, CNN and the New York Times denied any prior knowledge. Such “unsupported accusations” endangered freelancers, the NYT added. Hamas launched devastating and unprecedented attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers, and kidnapping more than 240. Images filed by the photographers included a burning…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigerian Police Force has effected a major shake up on Thursday with the posting and redeployment of Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners. According to the police, the new move was with the approval of the Police Service Commission. The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, ordered the posting and redeployment of 40 senior police officers comprising 14 Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 26 Commissioners of Police to various commands and formations in the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Thursday, said the postings and redeployments were part…

By Kamil Opeyemi After shutting down facility for the distribution of power in Imo state a day to the governorship election, the Nigerian Labour Congress is on the verge of crippling the Saturday’s exercise. This was just as the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) which supplied Imo state, attributed the current power outage in Imo, to the strike action by the Nigeria Labour Congress. The company said the whole thing is outside control. The EEDC’s Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Emeka Ezeh, made the disclosure in statement issued in Owerri on Thursday. The NLC and the Trade Union Congress…

By Halimah Olamide The Chief judge of Rivers state, Justice Simeon Amadi, has said a total of 36,712 cases are pending in various courts in the state. At a ceremony to mark the beginning of the 2023/2024 Legal Year in the state, Amadi said that most of the cases had been in court since the preceding Legal Year. He said High Courts in the state carried over 11,074 cases from the 2022/2023 Legal Year when it disposed of 5,041. He added that Magistrates Courts carried 14,943 cases into the new Legal Year, while the Customary Court of Appeal brought forward…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Saturday’s Kogi governorship poll in Kogi state, Sen. Dino Melaye, on Thursday promised a new state capital, Lokoja in a spate of four years. He said if elected as governor, he will turn things around in a manner that will amaze the people of the state. Melaye said this at the party’s grand finale campaign rally held in Lokoja on Thursday. “In 4 years, we are going to build the new Lokoja. York was in existence before New York came to be. Zealand was there before New Zealand came.…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has deployed its operatives to monitor the Saturday governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi. The Spokesperson of the Commission, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. According to her, the commission’s operatives have been deployed to the 56 local government areas and 649 Wards in the three states where the election would be held. Ogugua said that the operatives were to among others monitor and prevent vote buying and other electoral malpractices at the various polling units during the election. “The monitoring exercise is…

The authorities in Ghana have launched a manhunt for the people who cut down a famous 300-year-old kola tree, which was believed to have healing powers. The tree dates back to the Ashanti Kingdom, part of modern-day Ghana. Local people says the tree grew in the spot where renowned priest Komfo Anokye spat a kola nut on the ground in the early 1700s. Many local people believed the black and white seeds of the kola tree could cure ailments and curses. Ghanaians expressed outrage as pictures of the felled tree, in the town of Feyiase, circulated online. The tree was…

Colombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz’s father has been released by the left-wing guerrillas who kidnapped him 13 days ago, police sources and local media say. Luis Manuel Díaz was handed over to United Nations and Catholic church officials by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN). He was abducted on 28 October in the family’s hometown, Barrancas. The footballer’s mother was also seized, but was freed within hours. Local media said Mr Díaz had travelled by military helicopter to the city of Valledupar, where he would undergo a medical examination before being returned to his family. They also quoted authorities…

By Kamil Opeyemi For the first time after the political crisis in River state blew up, the governor of the state, Sim Fubara on Thursday met with the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike in PortHarcourt. The encounter was at the rededication service of the 2023/2024 Legal Year at the Saint Cyprian’s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt. Fubara, who was the first to be in the church and had taken his seat, later welcome Wike who came in later. As he made for his seat near the governor, the duo shook hands briefly while Wike went on to exchange greetings…