The State Security Service (DSS) has given the reason for arresting a Nigerian journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, early on Sunday.
DSS operatives arrested Mr Soyinka, who is the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at about 5.40 a.m. on Sunday, shortly after he arrived in Nigeria via a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom.
The reason for his arrest was not immediately known.
DSS spokesperson, Peter Ifunnaya, also told the press that he was not aware of the arrest and detention of Mr Soyinka, the pioneer Editor of the BBC Pidgin Service.
However, Mr Ifunnaya has said in an update he shared with PREMIUM TIMES that the SSS “intercepted” the journalist based on a request from another government agency.
“We are working on Adejuwon Soyinka’s case,” he confirmed in a text message to PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday.
But he did not provide the identity of the agency on whose behalf, he said, the arrest was carried out.
