(IJC/IFEX) – In the early hours of Sunday, 25 April 1999, the Chairman of the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lanre Arogundade, was arrested at his house by plainclothes policemen from Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo state. **For background on other cases involving Arogundade see IFEX alerts of 17 February 1999, 3 […]
(IJC/IFEX) – In the early hours of Sunday, 25 April 1999, the Chairman of
the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lanre
Arogundade, was arrested at his house by plainclothes policemen from
Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo state.
**For background on other cases involving Arogundade see IFEX alerts of 17
February 1999, 3 March 1998 and 28 August 1997**
The police team of the anti-robbery section of the state Criminal
Investigation Department (CID), Iyaganku Ibadan, was led by Samuel Akpofure
and A. Peters.
No reason was given for the journalist’s arrest.
