{"id":216413,"date":"2025-12-12T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-broadcaster-arise-news-has-not-suspended-popular-journalist-oseni-rufai\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:44:00","slug":"nigerian-broadcaster-arise-news-has-not-suspended-popular-journalist-oseni-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-broadcaster-arise-news-has-not-suspended-popular-journalist-oseni-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Broadcaster Arise News Has Not Suspended Popular Journalist Oseni Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Nigerian broadcaster Arise News has not suspended popular journalist Oseni Rufai<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> According to several Facebook posts, journalist Oseni Rufai was suspended by his employer, Arise News. But this is not true. Rufai was on leave and returned to work on 8 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Some <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/groups\/887678673547716\/?multi_permalinks=1165371005778480&amp;hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&amp;__cft__[0]=AZWt_LGSk-O2eVo8CoEP44lBUCsGgonYHJUyMA9a1UWZLjTWCImkwgwACZSMC4jkICqadl2Px83P4ovJtvMkEOqq8xAleJ7G691YRifWKK7k5W7bYk_jISc1H7WpUSuwohfk1ah_QIkztsCe-u2YAVdvPFbAkMeMUITpIe28jx07bg&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> posts claim that popular Nigerian journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oseni-rufai-56021220\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oseni Rufai<\/a> has been &#8220;suspended&#8221; from the media house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arise.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arise News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">One post, dated 4 December 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/groups\/887678673547716\/?multi_permalinks=1165371005778480&amp;hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&amp;__cft__[0]=AZWt_LGSk-O2eVo8CoEP44lBUCsGgonYHJUyMA9a1UWZLjTWCImkwgwACZSMC4jkICqadl2Px83P4ovJtvMkEOqq8xAleJ7G691YRifWKK7k5W7bYk_jISc1H7WpUSuwohfk1ah_QIkztsCe-u2YAVdvPFbAkMeMUITpIe28jx07bg&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>: &#8220;Arise TV suspends Rufai Oseni. More details later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110439.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian broadcaster Arise News has not suspended popular journalist Oseni Rufai IN SHORT: According to several Facebook posts, journalist Oseni Rufai was suspended by his employer, Arise News. But this is not true. Rufai was on leave and returned to work on 8 December 2025. Some Facebook posts claim that popular Nigerian journalist Oseni Rufai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,33438,23617,7277,257,393,482,53108,11271,24399,254,4314],"class_list":["post-216413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arise","tag-broadcaster","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-oseni","tag-popular","tag-rufai","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}