The seige by the police is a follow-up on earlier threats made by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Dangote Group, Mr. Anthony Chiejina at the weekend.
The Nigeria police have raided the headquarters of Kings Communications Limited, publisher of Money Management Series Plus newspaper in Lagos.SaharaReporters gathered that the incident came a few days after the newspaper turned down Dangote Group’s demand to pull down a story about a possible take over of the Dangote Refinery by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria owing to increasing debts.
Dangote Group is a Nigerian multinational industrial conglomerate, founded by Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man. Editor-in-Chief of MMS Plus, Kingsley Anaroke in a statement sent to SaharaReporters condemned the raid.