Closing Spaces Incidents Archive
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DSS operatives arrest John Abiri.
Incident Date: 21st July, 2017
DSS operatives arrest John Abiri, publisher of Weekly Source, a local tabloid in Yenagoa, Bayelsa...
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Court Remands Nigerian Blogger, Whistleblower In Prison.
Incident Date: 29th April, 2017
Federal High Court in Lagos remands Fejiro Oliver and Dennis Ukpabi on a five count...
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Governor El-Rufia ordered the arrest of a correspondent.
Incident Date: 20th April, 2017
Gov. El-Rufai ordered the arrest of Joseph Midat, a correspondent for Leadership newspapers in Kaduna...
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Makarfi PDP condemns arrest of its members, says DSS...
Incident Date: 9th April, 2017
Austin Usman Okai, a PDP Youth leader and frontline critic of the Yahaya Bello’s APC...
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Police Charge Femi Adeyeye And 13 Other Student Activists...
Incident Date: 1st April, 2017
Four student activisits of the University of Lagos were arrested on April 1, 2017 were...
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Abia Headmistress demoted for embarassing Ikpeazu’s wife.
Incident Date: 29th March, 2017
Maryleen Ezichi, an headmistress of a primary school at Amaetiti Asaga Ohafia in the Ohafia...
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Man jailed for insulting, defaming Nigerian governor on social...
Incident Date: 27th March, 2017
Gambo Saeed sentenced to nine months imprisonment for insulting and defaming the character of Governor...
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How Soldiers beat a Man to death in Ogun...
Incident Date: 26th March, 2017
Four soldiers attached to 174 battalion allegedly beat a man, Prince Adeola George Oyekan to...
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Police halts Shitte’s religious gathering.
Incident Date: 19th March, 2017
Armed Security Agents forcefully disrupted a religious gathering of members of the Islamic Movement of...
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Police ‘assault’, detain mum with baby over alleged bribe.
Incident Date: 18th March, 2017
On Friday 17 March 2017, Policemen attached to the Ekiti State Police Command on assaulted...
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FEJIRO OLIVER DETAINED WITHOUT LEGAL BASIS
Incident Date: 16th March, 2017
Journalist and Activist, Mr. Ortega Oghenedoro popularly known as Fejiro Oliver was arrested on 16th...
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I’m in Port Hacourt prison for my post about...
Incident Date: 14th March, 2017
Officers of the Oyo State Criminal Investigation Department arrested social media journalist and blogger, Kemi...