Saturday, October 4, 2025 - The arrest and detention of Media Room Hub publisher, Azuka Ogujiuba, by the Nigerian Police Force has ignited widespread outrage among journalists, human rights advocates and press freedom groups.
Ogujiuba, a veteran journalist and former ThisDay reporter,
was invited by officers of the Nigerian Police Force at the Asokoro
Division Headquarters in Abuja on August 6.
She honored the invitation, flying in with her legal
representative.
However, after being tracked for days, she was eventually
picked up and allegedly whisked away without a warrant, “like a criminal,” and
unlawfully detained for three days.
According to Ogujiuba, who said she had been invited by the
office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), alleged to have been
maltreated.
Police authorities said her arrest followed a petition
filed by businessman Adewale Oladapo, popularly known as Biggie, who accused
her of cyberbullying and defamation.
But Ogujiuba insisted that the real reason for her ordeal
was her outlet’s publication of a court injunction in an ongoing
multi-billion-naira land dispute in Lagos, a ruling that did not favor Oladapo.
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