Mr Zuhair Ali Ibrahim, editor of Leadership Online newspaper, was on September 18, 2025, remanded in prison custody on the order of Magistrate Court II sitting in Katsina on the request of the police to keep him in custody pending investigations into a petition filed by Mr Abubakar Nuhu, the Councillor of Doro Ward in the Bindawa Local Government Area of the State.
According to media reports, Mr Nuhu petitioned the police over a report published by Leadership Hausa Online on September 7, 2025, in which a certain Alhaji Ibrahim Sa’adu accused the Councillor of defrauding him of ₦30 million. The editor reportedly contacted the Councillor for his side of the story without success before going to press.
Following the publication, the Councillor petitioned the police, who arrested the editor in Zaria, Kaduna State, on September 15. He was interrogated and he explained how he got the story, as well as detailed the efforts he made to obtain the Councillor’s side of the matter.
