(IJC/IFEX) – The following is a list of journalists and media workers recently released in Nigeria: **Updates IFEX alerts as noted in text** Akpandem James, Rivers and Bayelsa States correspondent for “The Punch” newspaper, was released on 9 September 1997. He had been arrested on 4 September. (Updates IFEX alert of 5 September 1997). Chris […]
(IJC/IFEX) – The following is a list of journalists and media
workers recently released in Nigeria:
**Updates IFEX alerts as noted in text**
Punch” newspaper, was released on 9 September 1997. He had been
arrested on 4 September. (Updates IFEX alert of 5 September
1997).
newspaper, was released on 9 September. He had been arrested on 5
September. (Updates IFEX alert of 10 September 1997).
September. He had been arrested on 17 September. (Updates IFEX
alert of 17 September 1997).
arrested on 17 September, later took ill and had to be
hospitalised at Military Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos on 21 September.
He was released from detention on 22 September. (Updates IFEX
alert of 19 September 1997).
Meanwhile, the passport of Dr. Olatunji Dare, who was arrested
and released in early June, had his passport returned to him on
17 June. It had been seized at Muritala Mohammed International
Airport in Lagos, where Dare had just arrived from the United
States of America. Dare is the former chairman of the editorial
board of “The Guardian” newspaper and taught journalism at the
University of Lagos. (Updates IFEX alert of 11 June 1997).
