A Nigerian newspaper editor said on Friday that police have charged him with “publication of libellous article, threat to life, conspiracy and forgery.”
Shaka Momodu, a senior editor with Lagos-based ThisDay newspaper, said that the police interrogated him on Wednesday after one of the nation’s richest businessmen complained about an article that appeared in print.
A two-page advertorial in the Daily Sun newspaper’s edition of April 30 was critical of the business deals of Aliko Dangote, who filed a formal protest.
“I got a police invitation on the charges on Monday and I honoured the invitation on Wednesday during which I was interrogated on the allegation of causing the publication of the libellous advertorial,” he said.
He was released late Wednesday after the interrogation but asked to report to the police on Monday, July 27, when he expects to be appear in court over the charges.
It was not possible to get police reaction.