Precious Owolabi member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving with Channels Television, shot at the scene of the clash between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), better known as Shiites, and the police, is dead.
Yaahoo Journalist reports that the deceased, 23-year-old young man, died of a gunshot wound he sustained while covering the clash between the police and the Shiite protesters on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
The death of the reporter was announced during the 10 pm news bulletin of the station.
A statement released by Channels TV on its official website reads as thus: “The management and staff of Channels Television are greatly saddened by the untimely and unfortunate death of such a promising journalist.
“They pray that God will grant his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss, and avail his soul eternal rest.”
Yaahoo Journalist learned that the protesting Shi’ites who were marching on the streets of Abuja set a sub-station of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at the federal secretariat ablaze.
It was learned that two vehicles of the agency have been consumed while firefighters are currently battling to put out the inferno.
Yaahoo Journalist gathered that the protesters set the sub-station ablaze after the police disrupted their protest.
A report by TheCable says the protest, which began from NITEL junction at Wuse zone 2, was disrupted by armed policemen who cordoned off the road leading to the national assembly and three arms zone.
