15 October 2008
Eiphraim Audu
Shooting
Nigerian journalist Eiphraim Audu was shot by six unknown gunmen near his home on Wednesday in Lafia, central Nigeria.
Audu was a senior radio journalist with the Nasarawa State Broadcasting Service and the chairman of the credential committee of the forthcoming Nigeria Union of Journalist elections in Nasarawa. Gunmen shot Audu after he left his house to visit neighbors after returning from a state function, the general manager of the Nasarawa State Broadcasting Service, Musa Abdullahi, told CPJ.
No items were stolen from him or his car, which was parked nearby, said the secretary of the journalists union, Shu'aibu Usman Leman. A spokesman for the state police, Richard Akoji, told the local press that the police would do everything in its power to find the perpetrators, according to local news reports. Audu's friends and colleagues are traveling from all over the country to attend a funeral service for him on Friday, the Nasarawa State Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Abubakar Bala, told CPJ.
