Hoodlums Beat Journalists To Coma

Two journalists, Yomi Olomofe, Publisher of the Badagry community-based Prime Magazine and McDominic Nkpemenyie, a reporter with the Rivers state-owned TIDE newspapers were beaten and assaulted by hoodlums suspected to be smugglers over the reporting of the activities of smugglers along the Seme – Badagry area. In the course of his ordeal, Olomofe said that the hoodlums threatened to kill him so as to serve as deterrents to other journalists writing stories about them, adding that journalists have been writing negative stories about them.