Tag: FirstNews

Segun Olatunji Resigns As FirstNews Apologises To Gbajabiamila

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ My life is not safe. Truth shall prevail soon, but please pay one year salary you owe me – full details of Olatunji’s resignation letter ▪️ Report we published on Gbajabiamila contained falsehood and fabricated stories – FirstNews ▪️ A new case study in Nigeria’s journalism, reactions trail journalist’s resignation, newspaper’s apology   The General Editor, First News Media, Segun Olatunji, has resigned from his appointment. This came as the newspaper published a story with which it apologised to the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila Olatunji,…

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Help, My Husband’s Life In Danger, Wife Speaks On FirstNews Editor’s Abduction

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ Our editor’s whereabouts still unknown after being “Kidnapped” by Army, FirstNews links incident to story published recently   FirstNews, an online news platform, says there has been no response from security agencies, three days after Segun Olatunji, its editor, was “abducted”. Olatunji, a former Kaduna bureau chief of The PUNCH, was reportedly abducted from his home in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos, by gunmen on Friday. In a statement issued on Saturday, the management of the media platform linked the incident to a recent story published by…

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