Top Journalist Resigns Over El-Rufai, Dangote Stories | READ DETAILS
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Sep 16, 2020
Samuel Ogundipe, a top Nigerian journalist in Abuja, has resigned from Premium Times.
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His resignation seems to be related to the story he did about Bello El-Rufai, who threatened to gang rape someone's aged mother.
El-Rufai's son publicly threatened to deal with Samuel for writing the story, but Premium Times didn't do anything about it.
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Weeks later, he tweeted about a document from Dangote that he received and his editor, Musikilu Mojeed, came online to attack him and threatened to punish him.
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Many people attacked Mojeed on social media for conducting himself unprofessionally.
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Samuel resigned a few weeks later and made his decision known on Twitter today, September 16.
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He has now started a new digital media outlet, Peoples Gazette, in Abuja.
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If this could happen at Premium Times it shows how tough journalism is in Nigeria, you have enemy both in and out.
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