The Editor of First News Online Newspaper, Mr. Segun Olatunji has been released by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), after 13 days in custody. 

He was released to the General Secretary of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Iyobosa Uwugiaren and the Deputy Editor of The Nation Newspapers, Mr. Yomi Odunuga under a bridge in Asokoro.

The security goons were masked with number plates of their vehicles covered up.

All the documents for his release were signed inside a security vehicle with heavily armed operatives.

Upon enquiry by the NGE sureties, one of the security men simply said he was arrested for “terrorism.”

The International Press Institute, Nigeria, has alleged that the missing Editor of FirstNews, Segun Olatunji, was in the custody of the Defence Intelligence Agency.

The DIA is an agency under the command of Major General Emmanuel Undiandeye, who, in turn, reports to the Chief of Defence Staff.

The IPI, in a statement on Wednesday signed by its Nigeria’s President, Musikilu Mojeed, urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, to produce Olatunji who was abducted from his home in Lagos. 

“Multiple checks by IPI Nigeria revealed that Mr Olatunji was in the custody of the Defence Intelligence Agency, an agency under the command of Major General Emmanuel Undiandeye, who, in turn, reports to the Chief of Defence Staff, General Musa.