Mallam Tukur, editor and publisher of Desert Herald, an independent weekly in Kaduna state, has been arrested and threatened with prosecution on defamation charges. The Committee to Protect Journalists claim the threats are related to a recent article accusing Yobe’s Governor Ibrahim Geidam of corruption.
Cinemas in the Nigerian capital, Abuja have been asked by the Information Minister Dora Akunyili to stop screening sci-fi blockbuster District 9 as it discriminates against Nigerians by negatively portraying them as violent gangsters and criminals.
Akunyili has also asked for an apology from Sony Pictures, and requested that they edit out all references to Nigeria in the film, as well as the name of the gangster Obasanjo, which bears resemblance to that of the Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Six journalists were harassed and beaten preventing them from reporting on the demolition of several buildings on government land in Nigeria. Read more here
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed a $15.5 million (£9.7million) out-of-court settlement in a case accusing it of complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria including the hanging of anti-oil campaigner and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. Read more here