ABDUCTED EDITOR RESIGNS AFTER NEWSPAPER APOLOGGISES TO GBAJABIAMILA. (PHOTO).
Abducted editor resigns after newspaper apologises to Gbajabiamila Abducted editor, Segun Olatunji, has resigned from his position at FirstNews following an apology made by the management of the media house to the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila. Olatunji, who spent two weeks in detention after he was abducted by military men from his Lagos home on March 15, 2024, said he had chosen to resign as the General Editor of FirstNews for his safety and that of his family. It was learnt that the management of the newspaper apologised to Gbajabiamila over a recent news story published on its platform. The story, written by Olatunji, was titled “How Gbajabiamila attempted to corner $30bn, 66 houses traced to Sabiu.” Bullying is common in our school, happens every day – Abuja expensive school students0:01 / 1:01 The management, in a statement on Wednesday, said it found out the story contained “falsehoods and fabricated stories handed out to us as facts by a misleading source,
Today saturday morning,the brother of Godwin Ekpo,the husband of a woman Idongesit,who was shot dead by policemen at Isheri Oshun,died today.According to his brother,he died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Ikeja where he was taken for treatment early today morning.The victims were shot by a team of policemen attached to the Isheri Osun Police Division in Alimosho Local Government Area.The couple was returning from a church programme on wednesday in a tricycle belonging to the family to their in Abaranje in Ikotun when the incident happened.Godwin met a police checkpoint at Obalage bus stop,where other tricycle riders were being reportedly extorted by an eight man police team.When they approached the busstop,a police officer identified as Aremu Muesiu,reportedly opened fire on the tricycle when the couple refused to give the cops bribe.The bullet pierced through the tricycle back side and hit Idongesit,who was breast feeding a three month old baby.She died at the spot while Godwin who was also hit by the bullet sustained serious injury and was rushed to Ikeja General Hospital where he eventually died.The late couple who lived at Daniel street in Ejigbo before they relocated to Abaranje had four children.The incident sparked protest by motorcycle riders on thurday who shut down Ijegun Road in Alimosho area of Lagos.The police team who were involved in the check point toll where the incident happened have been arrested and transferred to the State Police Command Headquarters at Ikeja for investigation.My heart goes out to the family of the deceased couple.
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