Nigeria: IPC Begs DSS to Release Detained Journalists

7 December 2016

The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos, yesterday, pleaded with the Department of State Services, DSS, to release the publisher of Policy and Lawmakers Magazine, Kogi, Mr. Friday Ogungbemi, who was picked up following a publication which allegedly criticised the Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Edward Onojo.

In a statement by IPC's Safety Alert Desk Officer, Melody Akinjiyan, the group also condemned the abduction of Mrs Yuadoo Tor-Agbidye, Controller of News, Radio Benue, at her residence, last Friday.

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