Publisher of Secret Reporters, Fejiro Oliver, has been remanded in Ogwashi-Uku prison following Thursday’s hearing at the Federal High Court in Asaba.
Oliver made his first court appearance on Thursday, with his bail application adjourned to October 16, 2025.
He had spent nearly three weeks in detention without trial after his arrest in Abuja over allegations of defamation and cyberstalking.
Following his arrest, Oliver was flown on a chartered aircraft to Asaba, where he has reportedly been held incommunicado.
According to court documents filed at the Asaba Judicial Division, the police alleged that Fejiro, “between the months of August and July, 2025, in Asaba within Asaba Judicial Division did make publications on your Facebook account with the name Fejiro Oliver, cyberstalking His Excellency Sheriff Oborevwori, the Governor of Delta State.”
In the charge, he was accused of stating that “the Governor travelled to Brazil without the people knowing and making it ‘Hush-Hush’, ‘the governor gave contracts to his boys worth billions of Naira for rigging election’, ‘the Governor sent government officials to China, spending millions of Dollars only to go and inspect CNG buses instead of attracting investor.'”
He was further said to have written that “the governor is a sleeping governor who rigged election,” a statement the police claim was “aimed at destroying his reputation and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 24 (2) (c) (ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition Prevention etc) Act, 2015, as amended.”
CREDIT: SAHARA REPORTERS
