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Unlawful detention, journalist Abiri gets N10m damages

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A federal judge sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has declared the two years detention of the media practitioner, Mr. Jones Abiri as outright conviction and ordered Nigerian government to pay N10 million in damages to him. Mr Abiri was arrested in August 2016 and detained for two years till his lawyers, led by human rights activist, […]

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Why we kept journalist in custody for 2 years without trial -DSS

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In a fundamental right case before the court, counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), G. O. Agbadua, has given reasons why a journalist, Mr. Jones Abiri was not charged to court during the two years he spent in detention. The publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper, Mr. Abiri was arrested by the DSS in […]

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