The military raid came less than two months before scheduled presidential elections in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, and after a series of stinging losses in the war with Boko Haram. Sawab was released several hours later, but Abubakar remained in custody on Monday, colleagues said. Later Sunday afternoon, armed soldiers in five vehicles stormed the paper’s main office in the capital, Abuja, and ordered journalists working inside to evacuate. They occupied the building for four hours, according to Mannir Dan-Ali, the paper’s editor-in-chief, ransacking the newsroom and carting away dozens of computers. “Amongst us there was bafflement that something like this could happen in this age, supposedly in democratic society.”© 2019 New York Times News Service

Source: bd News24 January 07, 2019 22:30 UTC