The Nigerian Chapter of the International Press Institute
(IPI) says the Department of State Security (DSS) has delisted Lanre
Arogundade, the executive director of the International Press Centre (IPC),
from its watchlist.
Musikilu Mojeed, president of IPI in Nigeria, announced the
development on Tuesday at the 3rd Nigerian Media Leaders’ Summit convened by
Journalism Clinic in Ogun state.
Mojeed said Arogundade’s name was removed after about 40
years due to a sustained and intensive campaign by the IPI Nigeria.
He noted that the development was communicated to IPI
Nigeria by Adeola Ajayi, director-general (DG) of the DSS, at a recent
engagement with the service.
Mojeed said IPI Nigeria commends the DSS for finally
removing Arogundade’s name from the watchlist.
Arogundade’s name was added to the DSS watchlist during the
Muhammadu Buhari-led military regime when he served as the president of the
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) between 1984 and 1985.
In 2022, it was reported that DSS had delisted Arogundade’s
name from its watchlist but was briefly detained at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport in Lagos on February 10 that year.
There have been several calls for his name to be removed
from the service’s watchlist before it was finally taken off.
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