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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday softened the bail conditions for a Bayelsa State-based journalist, Jones Abiri.

Abiri, the publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper, who was incarcerated for two years on charges of terrorism before now, was whisked away at about 4:30pm on Saturday

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abiri, who was received at the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Centre, expressed his optimism of getting justice.

In tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family, and friends alike, Mama clasped her frail breasts, and cried inconsolably, naked. With emotions only a mother could express, Mama cried in the native Ijaw language of the Niger Delta creeks. Mama was calling on Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, to feel her pain and hear her plea.