Closing Spaces Incidents Archive
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Youth Corps Members Allegedly Imprisoned for Criticizing Madonna University
Incident Date: 4th January, 2019
According to a report that has since gone viral on social media, Nnamani was allegedly...
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Abuja Authorities Demolish Caramelo Lounge Worth Five Hundred Million...
Incident Date: 12th May, 2019
A popular night club in Abuja, Caramelo Bar, was demolished by the Federal Capital Territory...
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Police Arrest Kajuru Journalist Stephen Kefas For Re-Posting Article...
Incident Date: 8th May, 2019
Stephen Kefas, a Kaduna based journalist and human rights activist was arrested by men of...
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Nigeria Women Arrested for Prostitution, Assaulted by the Police.
Incident Date: 2nd May, 2019
Some convicted prostitutes have alleged that some policemen at Utako Police Station, Abuja, used pure...
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Abuja Court Sentences Rights Activist IG Wala To 12...
Incident Date: 16th April, 2019
An Abuja High Court on April 16, 2019, sentenced Ibrahim Wala, popularly known as IG...
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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...