Dapo Olorunyomi, publisher of PREMIUM TIMES and Evelyn Okakwu, the newspaper’s judiciary correspondent arrested on Thursday afternoon, have regained freedom. They were released on bail and instructed to report at the FCT Police Command Headquarters by 8:00 a.m. Friday morning. But a highly-placed police source said there are chances that the two could be taken before a Magistrate’s […]
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The Nigeria police have raided PREMIUM TIMES head office in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher. The publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, was arrested alongside the paper’s judiciary correspondent, Evelyn Okakwu. Plain-clothed officers conducted search at the office shortly after 5p.m. Thursday, and said they were acting on a complaint filed by the Chief of Army Staff, […]
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The Nigerian Army has issued a statement in which it challenged a story titled “EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria raises troops for Gambia, ready to remove Yahya Jammeh”, published by an online medium (PremiumTimes). The army assured that there is no plan to attack any country, urging the news medium to stop publishing misleading and embarrassing stories, as […]
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