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The police in Benin Republic, an adjoining country to Nigeria, have detained the Editor of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Damilola Ayeni. Ayeni was accused by the authorities in the West African country of being a jihadist. According to FIJ, they are demanding a bribe of 800,000 CFA to free Ayeni, whose arrest last week became public knowledge only early on Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, Mr Ayeni was on a trip to the Republic of Benin for the second leg of a Nigeria-Benin environmental journalism report when he was arrested and labelled a jihadist.
An anguished family say that they are still attempting to gain justice from a drunk driver who was responsible for the death of their 2 month old baby on Chroy Changvar Bridge in December
In another auction, 14 heritage items from the city will go under the hammer in Paris on February 26. The heritage items, designed by architects Pierre Jeanneret, are likely to fetch between Rs 2.80 crore and Rs 4.24 crore.