Information reaching NOTM online indicated that the Department of State Services has released a Nigerian journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, after detaining him for more than six hours.
Recall the agents of the secret police arrested Soyinka, the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday at about 5.40 a.m. on Sunday.
He just landed in the country in Virgin Atlantic flight from a trip to the United Kingdom.
NOTM online learnt that Soyinka was driven from the airport to the SSS headquarters annex in Ikoyi, Lagos, where he was detained until about 12.30 p.m. when he was granted bail.
It was reliably gathered that the journalist was granted bail following the intervention of the International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria.
However, Soyinka said as part of his bail conditions, the operatives seized his passport and asked him to provide his Nigerian address and reliable phone number through which he can be reached anytime in Nigeria.
He confirmed his release in a terse text agter his release:
“I have just been released by the DSS (SSS) in Lagos. They are holding on to my passport, though. I am in an Uber ride ordered for me by the Deputy Director of DSS in Lagos,” his text message read.
The DSS is yet to make any statement on why Soyinka was detained.
