President Goodluck Jonathan’s official photographer, Mr. Callistus Ewelike, was on Monday night shot by unknown gunmen in Abuja.
Ewelike, a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria is attached to the State House, Abuja, and he is currently acting as the President’s official photographer.
The father of two was reportedly shot at
a close range in front of his house in Nyanya in the outskirts of the
Federal Capital Territory, between 10pm and 11pm.
He was said to be returning to his house
after filing the photographs he took during Jonathan’s visit to Shape
Community in the FCT, where the President inaugurated the Operation
Light Up Rural Nigeria Project when the incident happened.