After about two weeks in custody, the Editor of First News Online Newspaper, Mr. Segun Olatunji has been released by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA).
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.”