Media offices set ablaze amid violent protest in Nigeria


  • World
  • Thursday, 22 Oct 2020

ABUJA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Three media offices were set ablaze on Wednesday by suspects who allegedly took advantage of a protest seeking to end police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub, according to media reports.

The Lagos Television, a state-run media organization, Television Continental (TVC), a popular 24-hour news channel, and The Nation, a widely circulated daily newspaper, in separate areas of Lagos, were torched by the hoodlums who went on the rampage across the state, local broadcaster Channels Television reported.

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