President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the removal of names of online journalists from a watch list circulated to all major airports in Nigeria by the State Security Services, SSS.

The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had in a desperate attempt to suppress and gag online journalists operating news websites critical of Government, directed the SSS through its Director General, Afakriye Gadzama, to place the operators of the websites on a watch list and arrest them anytime they are sighted in Nigeria.

The Yar’Adua Government which had budgeted $5 Million to tackle online media organizations had tagged online journalists as “enemies of the state.”

The list which was cited by a source within the security network of the Nigerian  Government include the names of Jackson Ude, Publisher/Editor-In-Chief of Pointblanknews.com, Sowore Omoyele, Publisher of Saharareporters.com, Okey Ndibe, a die-hard critic and columnist, Churchill Umoren, Editor, Pointblanknews.com, Oladimeji Abitogun, former Managing Editor, Pointblanknews.com, Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports, Emeke Asiwe…Read more here