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Journalist belong to the essential services list and are exempted from all curfew/lockdown guidelines put in place by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Lagos Journalists' League has bemoaned the harassment of journalists on Tuesday by men of the Nigeria Police Force while enforcing the lockdown order put in place to stop the spread of Coronavirus.

"It is disheartening that many of our colleagues had to pass the night on major highways across the state with the attendant health and security risks. It continued,"Lagos Journalists League therefore demands unreserved apology from the police authorities for this act.

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