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A news stand in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2014. A Nigerian court is scheduled to arraign brothers Timothy and Daniel Elombah, editor and chief executive respectively, of the independent Elombah news website, on cybercrime and terrorism-related offenses on March 1, 2018.(Reuters/ Stringer)

Two Nigerian journalists charged with cybercrime

February 27, 2018 2:09 PM EST

Lomé, February 27, 2018–Nigerian authorities should immediately drop plans to charge Timothy and Daniel Elombah, editor and chief executive respectively, of the independent Elombah news website, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Two Nigerian journalists assaulted after denied access to Buhari appearance in Kaduna

January 19, 2018 11:59 AM EST

Nigerian police on January 4, 2018, denied at least 10 journalists access to the public commissioning of a dry port in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state, and then assaulted at least two of the reporters, according to accounts form the two reporters, Enemaku Ojochigbe and Taye Adeni, and the Daily Trust newspaper.

Nigerian journalist detained over critical article he didn’t write

January 8, 2018 2:53 PM EST

Lomé, January 8, 2018–Nigerian authorities should immediately release Timothy Elombah, editor of the news website Elombah, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security forces arrested the journalist at his home in Nnewi, a city in Anambra state, on January 1, 2018, according to his lawyer, Obunike Ohaegbu, and media reports.