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| | Media Rights Monitor - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Nathaniel Ikyur, Vanguard newspaper correspondent in Kano State, was on November 22, 1999, arrested by the Fegge Police Division in Kano and briefly detained. |
 | | On December 6, 1999, policemen in Nsukka, Enugu State, arrested over 15 vendors and distributors of magazines and newspapers for selling a newsletter that alleged the Republic of Biafra would be declared by the year 2000. |
 | | The journalists are Alhaji Shittu Tella, the Kebbi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Yunusa Garba, a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) correspondent; and Mallam Ahmed Talib, of the Kebbi State radio. |
| www.internews.org /mra/mrm/aug02/aug02_story4.htm (3443 words) |
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