After 38 years, SSS removes Nigerian journalist from watchlist - ITREALMS

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The State Security Service (SSS) has removed a journalist, Lanre Arogundade, from a watchlist in which his name featured for 38 years, the Director-General of the Service, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, has revealed, reports ITREALMS.

Mr. Bichi spoke on Wednesday when a delegation from the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) led by its President, Musikilu Mojeed, visited him in Abuja, as part of the organisation's ongoing high-level engagements on the safety of journalists and press freedom in Nigeria.

Mr. Arogundade, director of the Lagos-based International Press Centre (IPC), was on February 10 intercepted and detained by officers of the SSS upon his arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, from Banjul, The Gambia, where he went to train journalists on conflict reporting.