Police detectives on Tuesday stormed the Warri Correspondents Chapel of the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), and picked up four journalists.
They are; Mr. Matthew Omonigho of the Daily Post Online, Mr. Edeki Egafe of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Francis Sadhere of Business Day and Mr. Christopher Odomhe, a freelance journalist.
The detectives who were from the Force Headquarters did not give reasons for the arrest of the journalists.
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Reports said that the police operatives stormed the Press Centre located along Gbiaye Street in Warri at about 3:45p.m to pick Omonigho for undisclosed reasons.
Following Omonigho’s arrest, the leadership of the NUJ in Warri immediately dispatched Edeki, Sadhere and Christopher to visit the Warri Area Command to ascertain the offence for which Omonigho was arrested.
On getting there, the officers also detained the three journalists.
The mobile sets of the four journalists were allegedly confiscated by the operatives.
