Journalist arrested by Kano state police and taken to Abuja

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Tukur Mamu, the editor of the Desert Herald weekly, late yesterday afternoon in Kaduna by police from the northern state of Kano, who immediately took him to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the federal capital, Abuja. “We are extremely worried about Tukur Mamu and we demand his immediate release and an end to the threats being made against him,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The Kano state authorities seem (...)

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