Violence was averted in Nkwagu, a town close to Abakiliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, on Saturday evening when some police officers clashed with soldiers from a nearby Army Cantonment.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ in the South East zone, has condemned what it called the unlawful and unwarranted arrest and detention of Journalists by men of the Ebonyi State Police Command for alleged ties with members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.
