Nigerian Blogger, Kemi Olunloyo Remanded in Prison Again

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Nigeria's Controversial blogger, Kemi Olunloyo who was earlier reported to have regained her freedom has been remanded in prison again.
Just after a Magistrate Court had granted her bail and she was about to take her leave apparently, a Federal High Court in Rivers has denied her bail.

 However, charges against the Port Harcourt-based publisher, Samuel Walson, were dropped.

 Olunloyo and Walson were arrested over an alleged online defamatory publication against a frontline cleric, Pastor David Ibiyomie.

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