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    Journalist Suspended for Requesting Salary on Facebook

    • Date of Occurrence
      May 14, 2020
    • State/Country
      Imo State, Nigeria
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    ''The suspended journalist, Vivian Ottih, is a lawyer and a senior editor with the government-owned IBC Orient FM radio station.

    She is the chairperson of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), in Imo State.

    Mrs Ottih, on May 4, posted a message on Facebook, appealing to Governor Hope Uzodinma’s media aide, Modestus Nwamkpa, to make a case to the governor on behalf of the workers in the government-owned radio and television stations who were yet to get their February, March, and April salaries.

    Mrs Ottih described Mr Uzodinma as a “humble” and “performing” governor, and said the governor may not have been aware of the travails of the workers.

    She said in the post that she was personally hard-hit by the situation because she just had a baby weeks earlier.''

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    • Date of Occurrence

      2020-05-14

    • State/Country

      Imo State, Nigeria

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      https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/393157-nigerian-journalist-suspended-indefinitely-for-requesting-salary-on-facebook.html

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    • Press Freedom
    • Right to Free Speech
    Gender of Victim(s)
    • Female
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    • Attack on Free Speech
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