Suspected Islamist sect kills Nigerian journalist

Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect shot dead a state television cameraman in Nigeria's remote northeast on Saturday, union and military sources said, in what could be the first assassination of a journalist by the sect.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", has been blamed by authorities for near daily shootings and deadly bombings around Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which sits in the far northeast corner of Africa's most populous nation on borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger. (Reuters)