Showing posts with label Nigeria journalist arrested faces libel suit over soccer stories. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Nigeria journalist arrested faces libel suit over soccer stories


A journalist in Nigeria was arrested and faces a libel lawsuit over a series of stories alleging corruption in the Nigerian Football Federation.

Nigeria journalist arrested faces libel suit over soccer stories

Olajide Fashikun, editor of the National Accord newspaper, was arrested last Wednesday.
He faces a lawsuit over a series of articles he wrote in which he claimed that a letter from FIFA to the country's soccer organizing body carried a forged signature.

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