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The Nigerian Army has explained that the offices of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust in Maiduguri and Abuja were raided on Sunday because the newspaper divulged classified military information, thus undermining national security. In a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Usman, on Sunday evening, the Army said that soldiers, along with men of the Nigeria Police Force and other Security Agencies, were at the Abuja and Maiduguri offices of the publishing company to invite its staff over the lead story on its Sunday Trust publication. According to the statement, the newspaper made disclosed details of planned military operations against the Boko Haram terrorists. “The disclosure of classified security information amounts to a breach of national security and run contrary to Sections 1 and 2 of the Official Secrets Act. “It afforded the Boko Haram terrorists prior notice of our plans and giving them early warning to prepare agai

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described freedom of the press as a bedrock of Nigeria’s democracy. Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party made the declaration as he reacted to the invasion and sealing off of the premises of the Daily Trust Newspapers in Maiduguri and Abuja. ” I have received with concern news of the sealing of Daily Trust corporate headquarters in Abuja. Freedom of the press is the bedrock of our democracy and nothing should be done to compromise it. If Daily Trust as an institution or any of its staff is in breach of the law, I recommend that due process be followed and not a resort to the jackboot”, Abubakar tweeted. Armed soldiers had stormed the offices of the newspaper in Maiduguri and Abuja to shut down the offices. The regional editor, Uthman Abubakar and a reporter, Ibrahim Sawab were taken away by the soldiers. In Abuja, the soldiers asked staff members at the office to pack their working tools, incl

Ahead of the coming election, 31 political parties have united in Osun to work for the emergence of PDP's Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar today. The decision was reached at a joint meeting of CUPP and other political parties' leaders in the state which included 31 active political parties. In his remarks during the meeting, Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo admonished all state chairmen of other political parties to remain focused, undeterred and undistracted by side attractions of the ruling party, APC, which he said has nothing tangible to offer anybody. Adagunodo said, "by now we must all have learnt one lesson or another from the clandestine attitude of APC's culture of use and dump." "The way they treated Osun based members of their parry during the eight years reign of economic terrorism inflicted on the state by the administration of APC under Aregbesola is enough reason for all of us to know that whatever they offer is nothing bu