Nigeria, Dec. 17 -- Ata Ikiddeh, a close ally of Nigeria's Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has warned Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State of the "grim" and "severe" implications of the blacklisting of Mr Eno by the International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria.

IPI is a global organisation which campaigns against media suppression. It has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

IPI Nigeria blacklisted Mr Eno and the Akwa Ibom State Government on 2 December for the expulsion of Channels Television correspondent Christopher Moffat and the station's cameraman, Kufre Ikpe, from the Akwa Ibom Government House Press Corps.

Mr Eno had banned the Channels Television crew for leaking a video clip containing the governor's remarks in which he had...