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A Nigerian journalist named Ibraheem Mohammed has been freed from prison due to intervention from the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute. As per a statement by IPI’s Legal Adviser and Chairman of the Advocacy Committee, Tobi Soniyi, Mohammed was released by a Nasarawa High Court in Doma after being granted bail on Friday, following 10 days in jail.

The General Editor of an online newspaper, First News, Segun Olatunji, has resigned. This is just as the news platform’s management apologized to Femi Gbajabiamila, President Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff, for a story published on its platform on January 29, 2024. Olatunji’s article indicting the former Speaker of the House of Representatives was entitled […]