Closing Spaces Incidents Archive
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INEC Staff Leave Collation Centre In Port Harcourt, Allege...
Incident Date: 10th March, 2019
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deserted the commission’s collation centre in Port...
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Journalist Arrested, Charged Under Cybercrime Law In Nigeria
Incident Date: 1st March, 2019
Mr Obinna Norman, owner and editor-in-chief of online news outlet The Realm News, was arrested...
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Army seizes journalists’ vehicle, bars them from covering election...
Incident Date: 10th March, 2019
Soldiers at ORO3, Union bank formation in Damaturu, Yobe state, confiscated journalists’ car and kept...
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Arrests Deputy Director General...
Incident Date: 4th March, 2019
The anti-graft agency arrested Turaki on Monday, March 4, 2019, when he went to endorse...
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Son-in-Law of Main Oppostion Candidate, Atiku, Arrested!
Incident Date: 2nd March, 2019
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Babalele Abdullahi, son-in-law of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate...
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Court Declares Extradition of Cameroonian Separatist Leaders Illegal
Incident Date: 26th January, 2018
A key Cameroonian separatist leader, Julius Ayuk Tabe, and 46 others were deported from Nigeria...
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Police barricades venue of ‘Free Lagos Movement’ meeting
Incident Date: 23rd February, 2019
Policemen numbering about 30 barricaded the venue of a Free Lagos Orange Movement gathering on,...
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Buba Galadima, Spokesman of Main Opposition Candidate Atiku, ‘Whisked...
Incident Date: 24th February, 2019
Some masked men suspected to be from the Department of State Services have arrested a...
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EFCC arrests Atiku’s lawyer, Giwa-Osagie, for alleged money laundering
Incident Date: 18th February, 2019
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested...
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#ArewaMeToo Activist, Maryam Awaisu, Arrested!
Incident Date: 19th February, 2019
Awaisu was arrested in her office at Kaduna by “a convoy of officers from the...
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Nation Condemns Planned Arraignment of Chief Justice
Incident Date: 10th January, 2019
On January 10, 2019, The Federal Government of Nigeria filed a motion asking the Chief Justice...