Nigeria, July 4 -- A journalist with the online news platform Secrets Reporters, Stanley Ugagbe, has been abducted from his residence in the Jikwoyi area of Abuja, with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) linking the disappearance to a recent investigation published by his organisation.

Mr Ugabe was taken on Wednesday at about 6:30 p.m. by unidentified armed men, according to a report published by Press Attack Tracker, an initiative of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).

The report quoted Secrets Reporters publisher, Tega Oghenedoro, also known as Fejiro Oliver, as saying neighbours saw four men in plain clothes arrive in an unmarked Mitsubishi Pajero SUV before taking the journalist away.

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