{"id":29303,"date":"2011-11-16T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=29303"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:15:31","slug":"nigeria-journalist-arrested-faces-libel-suit-over-football-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=29303","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Journalist arrested, faces libel suit over football stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Nigeria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria<\/a> has been arrested and is <a title=\"CNN: Nigeria journalist arrested, faces libel suit over soccer stories\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/15\/sport\/nigeria-journalist-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\">facing a libel lawsuit<\/a> over stories detailing alleged corruption in the Nigerian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Olajide Fashikun, editor of the <a title=\"National Accord Newspaper : Home\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Accord<\/a> newspaper, was arrested last Wednesday following a series of news articles, in which he claimed\u00a0a letter from FIFA president Sepp Blatter to Aminu Maigari on his election as head of the Nigerian Football Federation, had a forged signature.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrest, the offices of National Accord newspaper were ransacked, and the journalist&#8217;s laptop and hard drive were seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist in Nigeria has been arrested and is facing a libel lawsuit over stories detailing alleged corruption in the Nigerian Football Federation. Olajide Fashikun, editor of the National Accord newspaper, was arrested last Wednesday following a series of news articles, in which he claimed\u00a0a letter from FIFA president Sepp Blatter to Aminu Maigari on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[540,584,585],"tags":[2160,165,237,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29363,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29303\/revisions\/29363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}