The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, is very concerned over reported attacks on journalists and other media professionals covering today’s presidential and senatorial elections.
Information reaching IPC’s-JOURNALISTS-ELECTION-DAY-SAFETY-ALERT DESK indicates that not less than three journalists and media professionals have been assaulted and subjected to unlawful arrests.
The details include the assault and arrest of Gbenga Oloniniran of The Punch Newspaper by a team of police officers near the residence of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rumuiprikon, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
