President Buhari orders military to vacate Daily Trust office

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered military officers who raided the Abuja and Maiduguri offices of Daily Trust Newspaper to vacate its premises.

Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shebi announced the president’s directive on Sunday night.

“The Federal Government has directed the military to vacate the premises of @daily_trust and the order has been complied with,” he said via a tweet on his handle @GarShehu.

“Issues between the military and the newspaper as they affect the coverage of the war in the Northeast will be resolved through dialogue.”

It was earlier reported that armed soldiers in five Hilux vehicles on Sunday invaded the headoffice of the newspaper at the Jabi area of Abuja.

This came after an earlier raid on the Maiduguri regional office of the newspaper where the regional editor, Uthman Abubakar, and one of the paper’s reporters, Ibrahim Sawab were arrested.

Daily Trust in a tweet also said its regional office in Lagos was been taken over by security agents.

The raids on Daily Trust followed the publication of a report detailing how the Nigerian military assembled troops and equipment in preparation for a massive operation to retake Baga and five other towns in Borno from Boko Haram.