The murder this week of journalist Bayo Ohu highlighted recurring harassment and violence against Nigerian journalists, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday.
"This foul murder has brought the recurring harassment and violence against Nigeria's journalists to a head again," the press freedom organisation said.
Ohu, a 45-year-old assistant news editor at the influential Guardian newspaper, was shot dead on Sunday by unidentified gunmen as he answered a knock at the front door of his house in a northern suburb of Lagos.
"Given the circumstances of this killing, we urge the investigators to consider all hypotheses, including the possibility that it was linked to the victim's work as a journalist," the organisation said.
"Exactly one year after journalist Paul Abayomi Ogundeji's still unsolved murder, it is vital that full light should be shed on this case."
Ogundeji, a senior journalist with ThisDay newspaper, was shot dead in 2008, while a colleague, Godwin Agbroko, was killed in similar circumstances in 2006. Both cases remain unsolved.
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