The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that they arrested a Nigerian journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, based on a request from another government agency.
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News media, PREMIUM TIMES reports that the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said this in an update.

“We are working on Adejuwon Soyinka’s case,” Afunanya confirmed in a text message to PT but failed to mention the agency on whose behalf the DSS arrested the journalist.
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The Nigerian journalist was allegedly arrested and detained by the operatives of the DSS on Sunday morning.

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He was reportedly detained at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos at about 5:40 a.m. on Sunday upon his arrival from the United Kingdom via a Virgin Atlantic flight.
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Soyinka is currently the West African Regional Editor of The Conversation Africa and was a former Pioneer Editor of the BBC Pidgin Service.

The award-winning journalist’s colleagues said he has not been reachable, as messages and calls to his phone have gone unanswered.
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