The Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly arrested the pioneer editor of BBC Pidgin Service Adejuwon Soyinka.
The journalist, now West African regional editor of The Conversation Africa, was said to have been detained by DSS operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos around 5.40 a.m. on Sunday.
This happened upon his arrival from the United Kingdom via a Virgin Atlantic flight.
PUNCH reports that a friend of Mr Soyinka sent a distress message which reads, “Adejuwon Soyinka has been detained by officers of the Department of State Security at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The incident happened around 5.40 am on Sunday, the 25th of August, 2024, shortly after he arrived in Nigeria via a Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom.”
DSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya however told the newspaper that he was not aware of Soyinka’s arrest.
He said: “I am not aware of the matter you have raised.”
After his arrest, Soyinka was driven from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos to the DSS building in Lagos.
Soyinka was media aide of former governor Ibikunle Amosun before joining BBC.
