Eniola Daniel

Gender: Male
Radio Journalist

At about 11 a.m. on February 28, seven police officers—six in uniforms and one in plain clothes—attacked Daniel, a reporter with the privately owned Nigerian newspaper The Guardian, after he photographed makeshift buildings that the officers had demolished in the Western Apapa council area of Lagos state, according to the journalist, who spoke by phone with CPJ, and a report and video of the attack posted by his employer. Daniel identified himself as a journalist on assignment, but the officers seized and smashed his phone, tore his pants, briefly choked him, and punched him in the stomach, knocking him unconscious, while they questioned why he dared to photograph them, according to Daniel and that video.

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