Nigeria, Feb. 13 -- A social critic and member of the Interim Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State, Chika Nwoba, has been remanded in prison custody by an Abakaliki Magistrate Court.

Mr Nwoba, a former spokesperson of the PDP in Ebonyi State, was arraigned by the police on Tuesday on a three-count charge of threat to life, publication of false information and false allegation.

The police arrested him on Sunday following a petition by the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in Ebonyi State, Oguzor Offia-Nwali.

Mr Nwali alleged that Mr Nwoba had in a series of posts on Facebook defamed him, threatened his life and falsely accused him of fraud and diversion of state government funds meant for the empowerm...