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Journalists' Arrest Tests Nigeria's Powerful Army

The January 19 raid on the offices of online investigative news organization Premium Times in Nigeria's capital Abuja is part of a continuing government attempt to quash bad publicity. If the raid was designed to curb further attention to the reporting on malfeasance by the Nigeria Army, it backfired badly.

VIDEO: Interview with PREMUM TIMES Publisher Dapo Olorunyomi

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PREMIUM TIMES publisher Dapo Olorunyomi and judicial reporter Evelyn Okakwu with ProfessorJibrin Ibrahim (center), who chairs the newspaper's editorial board after the journalists returned to their office following a visit to police headquarters Friday morning. No charges were filed against them.

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