Nigeria, April 10 -- The management of WikkiTimes, an accountability news platform focused on northern Nigeria, has reported that its website experienced cyber-attacks and was taken offline on 8 April.

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, WikkiTImes managing editor Aminu Adamu said the platform started experiencing the attacks on Monday and swiftly notified its technical team about it.

According to Mr Adamu, the platform eventually went down, and the technical team was only able to restore it in the early hours of Wednesday.

"It's really sad that people are targeting us because of the work we do. But the good news is that our work is really giving some people somewhere sleepless nights.

"We're unperturbed. We're undeterred and we...