Plans are now underway by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) FCT Chapter and Football Coaches Association in Abuja to organise a one-day friendly in honour of Late Olusegun Ogunjimi, a sports reporter with the Nation.
Chairman of SWAN FCT, Ndubueze Chidoka, who disclosed this in a press statement on Wednesday said the encounter will take place on Thursday March 4, 2021, two days before late Ogunjimi is laid to rest.
The game will be played inside Area 3 playground, Abuja as from 3pm.
The sports journalist who died on February 10 will be buried on March 6 at Gudu Cemetery in Abuja.
“There is also arrangement for a day of tributes put together by colleagues in his honour on Wednesday March 3 as against March 2 that was earlier scheduled.
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A Nation at War with Itself
By Femi Oluwasanmi Listen to article
The recent increase in the numbers of attacks on the media from some elites, overzealous officers, and fraction of the public shows that Nigeria is seriously at war with itself and needs a special therapy inorder to recuperate from the wound occasioned by this ignominious display and regain her rightful position in the comity of nation.
On 6th January, 2021, three photo journalists with PUNCH, Leadership and Sun newspapers were assaulted while carring out their duty by the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps stationed at the headquarters of the National Identity Management Commission in Abuja. The security officers grabbed their cameras and deleted all the pictures after damaging the camera of one of the journalists.