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Over 80 Journalists‘ Barred’ From Aso Rock

March 25, 2020 6:42 am

The number of State House correspondents was yesterday pruned to 16 over the coronavirus pandemic. Only one of them is a newspaper reporter. The number was out of the over 100 journalists accredited to cover activities of the Presidency.

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a circular yesterday listed the correspondents to enter the Villa for media coverage of any event beginning from today until further notice as the Covid-19 incidence would dictate as including: “Chairman, State House Press Corps – for coordination; NTA crew; Channels TV crew; TVC crew; FRCN reporter; VON reporter; NAN reporter; The Sun reporter; ThisDay photographer; …

Shehu Sani Begs EFCC, AGF Over Sealing Of Sun Newspaper

December 16, 2019 4:27 am

Shehu Sani, former Kaduna Central Senator has reacted to the reported sealing of The Sun Newspaper by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

THISDAY had reported that officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with heavily armed policemen on Saturday, stormed the corporate headquarters of The Sun Publishing Limited at 2, Coscharis Street, Kirikiri Industrial Layout, Apapa, Lagos.

In a statement made available to THISDAY, the management of Sun newspaper said the officials put up a notice for staff and the general public to keep off the premises.

The EFCC officials, who came in a white Toyota …

Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General

December 11, 2019 8:22 am

The entire country and a global audience are rightly scandalised by the unfolding saga over Omoyele Sowore and the unruliness of the SSS and the government; but it is only a pattern, a reflection of the serial disregard of the Buhari regime for human rights and its battering of other arms of government and our democratic institutions. PUNCH views this tendency and its recent escalation with serious concern, knowing as the great thinker, Edmund Burke, said that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Nigeria had trod a path, a veritable …