Nigeria, Oct. 29 -- Police operatives have arrested a professional webmaster, Adebowale Adekoya, over an investigative news story published last year.

The story was published on NewsDigest, an Abuja-based online medium.

According to PR Nigeria, Mr Adekoya was arrested in Ikorodu, Lagos last Friday while going home and thereafter whisked away to Ilorin Kwara State.

This reporter carried out the investigation titled 'Inside Kwara factory where Indian hemp smoking is 'legalized."

The story was published over a year ago on May 19, 2018.

The report showed that at Hillcrest Agro-Alied Industry, one of the companies owned by a former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sarah Alade, smoking of cigarettes and Indian hemp was tol...