Nigeria: SSS Arrests Nwodo for Allegedly Inciting Soldiers

18 August 2009

FORMER Minister of Information, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, was yesterday arrested and flown to Abuja by operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) in Enugu.

Nwodo, who was arrested at his residence in Enugu and detained for several hours at the Enugu office of SSS, was at 3.30p.m. yesterday, flown to Abuja aboard an Arik Airline.

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