The presiding Magistrate of Kubwa Grade 1 Magistrates’ Court , Abdulwahab Mohammed, on Friday granted bail to the Premium Times reporter, Samuel Ogundipe. Ogundipe was arrested and detained on August 14 by police for failing to disclose source of his story. But Ogundipe has regained temporary freedom just as the International Press Institute (IPI) asked […]
The International Press Institute (IPI), has berated the Federal Government for the arrest, detention and prosecution of Samuel Ogundipe, a journalist with the Premium Times, accusing the government of violating the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Article 66 of the Treaty of ECOWAS signed in Lagos in 1975, which requires member states […]
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President of the Senate, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, has stated that the continued illegal detention of Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times journalist, is an affront on the fourth estate of the realm and an assault on freedom of the press, freedom of speech and due process. In a […]
Police authorities on Thursday broke its silence on the arrest and arraignment of Samuel Ogundipe, a reporter with the Premium Times, saying the journalist has been arraigned for theft of classified and restricted documents. The police stated this amidst protest by a coalition of civil society groups, #Our Mumu Dondo and #Take back Nigeria Movement […]
The police on Wednesday, arraigned the Premium Times journalist, Samuel Ogundipe before a Magistrates’ Court in Kubwa, an Abuja suburb on a charge of alleged criminal trespass and theft of police document, even as public outrage over his arrest spreads. Ogundipe was charged to court over the alleged offence contrary to Sections 352, 288 and […]