Nigeria: Reporter brutalised on orders of oil company manager

Mr. Luka Binniyat, Energy Reporter with the Lagos-based independent daily, Vanguard newspaper was, on August 20, 2008, at about 2:50pm local time, beaten and brutalized with gun butts by security personnel attached to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Abuja on the orders of Dr. Levi Ajounoma, its Corporate Affairs Group General Manager (GGM). He sustained injuries including spraining his left elbow.