By David Gold
November 18 – A Nigerian journalist has been arrested and is now facing a libel case after alleging corruption within the country’s Football Federation.
National Accord editor Olajide Fashikun (pictured) was arrested last week and faces questions over a series of articles which allege that a forged signature appeared on a document sent to the organisation from FIFA.
The newspaper’s offices were searched, and Fashikun’s laptop and hard drive seized, according to the International Press Institute.
The letter in question supposedly came from FIFA President Sepp Blatter, in which he congratulates Aminu Maigari on being elected as head of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), after he controversially clinched the election following his main rival’s withdrawal from the contest.
The articles are claimed to have damaged the NFF’s integrity, and it is not the first time newspapers in the country have been raided.
The Nation last month had its offices searched and six of its writers arrested after publishing a letter from the former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, in which he apparently instructed his successor to fire Government officials.
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