The commission decried a situation where “journalists operate under difficult conditions, where freedom of expression and the press is relegated to the background.”
The prosecutor said that the defendant allegedly struck the victim’s forehead with a cutlass, inflicting on him a deep injury.
Chairman of Kabba-Bunu local government council, Moses Olorunleke, gave the order on Monday in Kabba following a second suspected bomb blast in the area.
The judge sentenced them to one year in prison, with the option of a N200,000 fine each, and ordered the forfeiture of money and gadgets from the crime.
The actor is seeking a dissolution of his six-year-old marriage and wants full custody of his three-year-old son and ten-year-old stepdaughter.
The Magistrate admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N300,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
Oyewale Ibrahim, 23, and Animashaun Rilwan, 25, are being charged with two counts of conspiracy and theft.
The Court of Appeal had earlier held that the trial by Justice Okon Abang was tainted with bias, and ordered a retrial.
Oga Sabinus has threatened to sue Friesland Foods, the manufacturer of Peak Milk, over what he described as unauthorised use of his intellectual property
Kigbu, a one-time national president of the Eggon Cultural Development Association (ECDA) was murdered on Sunday. The killers also abducted his two daughters.
