Nigeria, March 29 -- A Magistrate Court in Owerri, Imo State, has granted bail to four sisters who were hurriedly arraigned and remanded in prison in the state under controversial circumstances.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the sisters were arrested earlier this month, alongside their brother, Solomon Ohadoma, and a yet-to-be-identified resident over a civil case.

They were hurriedly arraigned and sent to prison within hours while being denied access to a lawyer.

Their parents were not aware of the arraignment.

Some police officers went to a compound where the family is living, ostensibly to arrest Mr Ohadoma who allegedly seized a mobile phone from a yet-to-identified man in the area who was indebted to him.

The officers arrested Mr O...