Yomi Olomofe, a Nigerian journalist, was brutally assaulted and detained on March 17 by the Nigerian police. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), police moved against Olomofe after men whom he had said beat him up last June accused the journalist of assault and attempting to extort money from them.

The popular journalist,Olomofe, who publishes the monthly community magazine Prime Magazine, and McDominic Nkpemenyie, a correspondent with the state-funded Tide Newspaper, were investigating allegations that customs officers at Seme, on Nigeria's border with Benin, were complicit in smuggling, when more than 15 men attacked the two journalists, Olomofe told CPJ. The men hit Olomofe on his face and body with their fists and sticks until he lost consciousness, the publisher and witnesses told CPJ days later,after Olomofe regained consciousness.