Nigeria, April 3 -- The Special Adviser on Print Media to Niger State Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago, Aisha Wakas, has ordered the arrest of two journalists Yakubu Mustapha Bina, Chairman of the Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Niger State, and freelance journalist Fodio Ahmed over allegations of defamation.

Bina was summoned to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Minna on Wednesday, where he was questioned for six hours before being released.

Sources revealed that the police tried to pressure him into admitting he shared defamatory content about Wakaso, but he refused.

According to insiders, the police initially planned to detain Bina, but his release was secured after intervention by...