Reports in the local Nigerian media suggests that the country has lost a total of seven
journalists to covid-19 & other undisclosed illnesses in seven days.
List of journalists as fellow below….
Dan Foster (Cool FM & City FM), Hugo Odiogor (former Editor at the
Vanguard), Xavier Ndayongmong (Crime Editor at Daily Independent), Nkiruka Udoh (Crime and Defence Correspondent at African Independent Television-AIT),
Naomi Uzor (Business Desk at the Vanguard), Aramide Praise Oikelome (the Media Project and
Independent Newspapers), and Azeez Ozi Sanni (Cartoonist at The Nation).
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According to Newsmakerslive.org, Nigerian Journalists have been facing huge risks and unprecedented
challenges as frontline workers covering the novel Coronavirus outbreak and reporting in the
newsroom every day.
