Nigeria, April 24 -- This is real. Let no one begin to think that it's not a matter that calls for serious concern at this time.

That the continued repression of the critical press and voices of truth seeking to hold different shades of the country's power holders accountable has continued under the Bola Tinubu administration is not in doubt. For a man well-touted as a progressive and whose place as a prominent agitator in the Nigerian pro-democracy camp of the 1980s and 1990s is fully documented, an onslaught of intimidation and attacks on journalists and whistleblowers under his nose must be seen as an unsettling paradox.

Although reports of press attacks in various dimensions pour in now and then, two separate cases involving Fisayo ...