Nigeria, March 12 -- The Nigerian ambassador to Mexico, Adejare Bello, on Friday, assaulted a journalist in Osun State.

Mr Adejare, a former speaker of the state assembly unleashed an attack on Adeniyi Akinromade, a journalist working with Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, while the latter was rendering a social service during traffic gridlock.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the gridlock was at the Oke-Fia axis of the state around 11:00 a.m. and the journalist decided to help control the movement of vehicles to ensure easy accessibility on the routes.

Mr Bello and the security personnel attached to him were on the route and witnesses said he alighted from his vehicle to assault Mr Akinromade.

"I was on my to Oke-Fia when I saw gridloc...