About Seven journalists from Nigeria have been confirmed dead in the last seven days. The journalists worked with different media houses and died from different sicknesses.

See below for their names, media firm, date of death and what sickness they died from.

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Nkiruka Udoh, a Crime and Defense Correspondent at the Africa Independent Television was said to have died of complications from fibroid operation.

Mr. Hugo Odiogor, is a popular foreign affairs analyst and ex-Chairman, Vanguard Editorial Board. Odiogor died on Saturday, June 20, after a protracted illness which had seen him travel to India.

Azeez Sanni, who was a Cartoonist at The Nation Newspaper, died after battling with a liver problem.

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Naomi Uzor, a correspondent on the Business Desk at Vanguard Newspaper reportedly died from complications related to high blood pressure.

Dan Foster died on June 17. His wife Lovina confirmed to Channels TV that he was tested for COVID-19 and the result came back positive one day before his death.

A reporter from the Media Project and Independent Newspapers, Aramide Praise Oikelome, as well as Xavier Ndayongmong a Crime Editor at Daily Independent sadly made the list.

MAY THEIR SOUL REST IN PEACE.

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A freelance journalist has been locked up in a cell for almost two weeks on the orders of Minister of Information and Culture.

Rotimi Jolayemi, popularly known as Oba Akewi, doubles as the vice-chairman of Freelance and Independent Radio Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (FIBAN), Osun State branch.

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Olu Olugbade, the FIBAN chairman who confirmed the incident, said the journalist had recorded an eight-minute audio poem criticising the minister, Lai Mohammed and released via WhatsApp.

The audio went viral and the journalist went into hiding. The police picked up his wife and two brothers for questioning. This forced him to turn himself in.

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has also condemned his continuous illegal detention. It averred that it was against the rights of the journalist to be detained for expressing his views.

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The group has therefore called for the immediate release of the journalist who has still not been charged with any offence at a court of law.

The spokesperson of the Minister of Information has meanwhile denied his boss is the mastermind of the detention.

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He called on those making the allegations to channel their grievances to the proper quarters and leave the Minister alone to concentrate on his work.

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