I saw this tpoic on another section and I think it fits the Politics section.

By SaharaReporters, New York

Saharareporters just learnt minutes ago that the SSS at MMIA in Lagos arrested Okey
Ndibe and detained, a columnist and US professor.
Mr. Ndibe arrived on Turkish airlines at 9:31 PM (Nigerian Time). An Immigration
officer handed his passport to an State Security Service (SSS) who instructed him to
get his luggage and come with them. One SSS officer named "Mr. George" told Mr.
Ndibe his supervisor needed to see him on the first floor at room 1062.
After being held for several hours he was released after he was made to give his
Nigerian address, but just before he was released, his Nigerian passport was seized by
the agency. They requested that he appears before the Kingsway Road office of the
agency on Monday to interview with their director for further action.
Okey Ndibe is a US professor and a columnist for the SUN newspaper as well as
several websites including SaharaReporters.com. He is also a professor of English
Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and Brown University in Rhode Island.

Source: www.saharareporters.com/news-page/jonathan-government-arrests-us-based-newspaper-columnist-okey-ndibe-murtala-mohammed-airpo


“We Have Been Here Before”- Prof. Wole Soyinka On Okey Ndibe's Arrest And Seizure Of Passport.

Election neurosis has clearly gripped a most insensitive and inept Security apparatus.
Inept because the harassment of a journalist is the very worst form of service that can
be rendered to their paymasters in a democracy. I presume of course that we are not
only under democratic governance but are actually engaged in a process that is
supposed to strengthen that condition.
All the signs indicate that the nation is being deceived, and that another extravagant
sham is being presented to the world. The action of a Security with regard to Okey
Ndibe will be taken as enjoying the full support of the government unless his
passport is immediately returned and a severe reprimand meted out to the agency
responsible for this violation of the most elementary rights of its citizens. Not only
that, they must be instructed that it must never happen again.
The nation is urged to remain vigilant and pro-active in the protection of their citizen
rights. These, let us remind ourselves, include freedom of expression, freedom to
associate, and freedom of movement. The infringement of any one of these, no
matter who is the victim, becomes the collective responsibility of all and must be
sternly addressed. A movement towards fascism begins with seemingly innocuous
violations. The signs are increasingly ominous but we have been here before.

WOLE SOYINKA
Convener, CITIZEN FORUM
www.saharareporters.com/news-page/“we-have-been-here-”-prof-wole-soyinka-okey-ndibes-arrest-and-seizure-passport

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Mods pls delete. There is another topic already on this

old news. Topic very deceitful.

He was questioned by the SSS, he was never detained nor arrested.