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DSS frees journalist, Soyinka, retains passport

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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have released Adejuwon Soyinka, the Regional Editor of The Conversation Africa and an investigative journalist.

According to a report by PUNCH, friends of the journalist revealed in a message that Soyinka was freed on Sunday by the DSS, who had detained him at their Ikoyi office.

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He also added that his international passport was retained by the DSS.

The message reads, “He has been released. They held onto his passport. He was released from their (DSS) Ikoyi office.”

Recall that the investigative journalist was arrested on Sunday at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, shortly after he arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom.

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