20 September 2009
Ogunbayo Ohu
Shooting
Ogunbayo Ohu, the assistant news editor and political reporter of the Guardian newspaper in Nigeria, was shot dead in his apartment in Egbeda, a Lagos suburb.
According to the statement published on the Guardian Website, about six men dressed in white flowing gowns with matching skull caps fired a volley of bullets at Ohu when he answered his door.
The gunmen who travelled in a white Toyota Camry followed him in the house and shot him several times. The assailants took Ohu’s laptop and mobile phone. He was pronounced dead on his arrival at the Ikeja general hospital. The International Federation of Journalists said the murder had all the hallmarks of a targeted killing.
