Security
FROM Okey Ndibe, popular Nigerian novelist and journalist, who arrived in Nigeria this morning, was arrested at Murtala Mohammed International Airport at Ikeja, and is still held by the secret police.
Ndibe’s detention on arrival has been a regular occurrence since the days of President Goodluck Jonathan for his critical articles on the Nigerian leadership.
However, he has not been writing in the Nigerian media in the last two years, as he concentrates on book writing and teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his alma mater.
On each occasion he was arrested in the past, according to his close friend, C. Don Adinuba who is a former Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment in Anambra State, he would be released after the airport DSS officials got in touch with their superiors in Abuja.
“It is a pity that this agency doesn’t update its data base to enable the officers on duty at the airport to know that the agency does no longer regard Prof Ndibe as a security threat to the administration.
“The agency has on each occasion apologized to him for the wrongful detention”.
A.I
June 1, 2026
Tags: President Goodluck Jonathan