The police in Nigeria may be planning to charge one of the country’s most hardworking investigative news reporters, Yussuf Alli, with the colonial sedition law and its modifications Decree 4 of 1984, a legacy of the Muhammadu Buhari draconian years and the Decree 2 of 1992, foisted on the nation by the military President Ibrahim Babangida. Alli is expected to be charged in an Abuja Magistrate Court this Thursday, and the country’s human right community has raised an alarm that the government is acting in deceit because procedurally, the bail application for the holden offense should have begun from a High Court, not a Magistrate Court. The police in Abuja released the bureau editor of The Nation, Mr. Yomi Odunuga and the publication’s Deputy Editor, Mr. Lawal Ogienagbon to the Chairman of ...
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