Fresh details emerged on Monday night over the airport encounter between the Department of State Services, DSS, and Prof. Okey Ndibe, with a source familiar with the matter dismissing reports that the renowned writer was arrested or detained and insisting that he left the airport less than 30 minutes after a routine security engagement.

SaharaReporters learnt that the operatives of the DSS insisted that they were waiting for "orders from above" before he could be released.

The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has condemned the detention of renowned Nigerian writer, academic and public intellectual, Professor Okey Ndibe, by…