SaharaReporters gathered that Abdu was illegally detained by the soldiers for several hours.

Grace Abdu, a journalist with Voice Of America, was on Saturday assaulted and arrested by Nigerian soldiers for ‘interviewing residents of Oyigbo in Rivers State’.

SaharaReporters gathered that Abdu was illegally detained by the soldiers for several hours.

“She went there around 11, so around 12pm, the soldiers saw her and arrested her. They also seized her equipment. She was kept at the Army Post in Oyigbo for several hours before they released her this evening,” a source told SaharaReporters.

Recall that army operatives were deployed to Oyigbo amid the violence that broke out in the town after some alleged Biafran agitators clashed with security agents.

The soldiers have, however, been accused of extra-judicial killings and abuse of human rights.

The security agents are allegedly moving from house to house killing people.

Also Amnesty International said it received reports that soldiers were invading homes and that “some residents reported seeing dead bodies on the street,” allegedly shot by soldiers, but the army denied this allegation.

“Amnesty International is receiving disturbing information from Oyigbo, Rivers State.

“Despite the existing curfew, soldiers are allegedly invading homes. Some residents reported seeing dead bodies on the street, allegedly shot by soldiers.

“We are calling on the military authorities to exercise restraint and stop the killings,” the organisation tweeted.

Mgbadike80:
After the new president takes over in the USA, Nigerian government officials might be hit with extreme sanctions from western countries. Nigeria is a country where everybody in authority behaves like a demigod and our political leaders are the worse.

SilverNorGold:
Ok, Sahara Reporters and its one-way journalism.. If you read this nonsense with an unbiased mind, the first thing you would notice is the gruesome murder of two principles of natural justice: nemo iudex in causa sua (Sahara Reporters, an enemy of the government and an interested party, being a vicar of journalism, would naturally make a biased report. So it's not supposed to be the 'judge' in the first place)... AND audi alteram partem (you'll notice that out of the thousands of words used to craft this report, not a single one was dedicated to the army to narrate its own side of the story...)

For these reasons, I hereby dismiss this report as FAKE NEWS, PROPAGANDA, and a FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUTHOR... .

God bless Nigeria.

Okoroawusa:
Dem no go see this one. Every body eye dey Lagos.

Conrod:
AIT,CHANNELS,CNN and now VOA are now fake news peddlers simply because you are desperate to hide your heinous crimes,i knw that u wil fail,despots always fail.

SilverNorGold:
Ok, Sahara Reporters and its one-way journalism.. If you read this nonsense with an unbiased mind, the first thing you would notice is the gruesome murder of two principles of natural justice: nemo iudex in causa sua (Sahara Reporters, an enemy of the government and an interested party, being a vicar of journalism, would naturally make a biased report. So it's not supposed to be the 'judge' in the first place)... AND audi alteram partem (you'll notice that out of the thousands of words used to craft this report, not a single one was dedicated to the army to narrate its own side of the story...)

For these reasons, I hereby dismiss this report as FAKE NEWS, PROPAGANDA, and a FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUTHOR... I await the other side of the story.

God bless Nigeria.

SilverNorGold:
Ok, Sahara Reporters and its one-way journalism.. If you read this nonsense with an unbiased mind, the first thing you would notice is the gruesome murder of two principles of natural justice: nemo iudex in causa sua (Sahara Reporters, an enemy of the government and an interested party, being a vicar of journalism, would naturally make a biased report. So it's not supposed to be the 'judge' in the first place)... AND audi alteram partem (you'll notice that out of the thousands of words used to craft this report, not a single one was dedicated to the army to narrate its own side of the story...)

For these reasons, I hereby dismiss this report as FAKE NEWS, PROPAGANDA, and a FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUTHOR... I await the other side of the story.

God bless Nigeria.