Nigeria: Breaking - Nigerian Military Moves Against Leadership Newspaper - Soldiers Seize Consignment Heading for North, South

In what appears a throwback to Nigeria's dark days of military dictatorship, some soldiers who reportedly claimed they were acting on orders from above have confiscated today's edition of Leadership Newspaper heading to the Northwest, Southeast and Southsouth regions of the country, an official of the paper has said.

Azubike Ishiekwene, managing director of the Leadership Group, said soldiers mounting a roadblock close to the tollgate along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway blocked the newspaper's van heading to Kaduna and confiscated the entire consignment of the paper.

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