Mr Tega Oghenedoro, popularly known as Fejiro Oliver, a journalist and publisher of Secret Reporters, an online platform for investigative journalism, was on September 19, 2025, arrested at his office in Garki, Abuja, by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Department (FID), who took him to their office. They, thereafter, drove him to the airport in Abuja and flew him to Asaba, the Delta State capital, where he is being detained.
Reports stated that he is being detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Asaba, and has been denied access to his lawyers. He has neither been released nor charged to court.
However, neither the Delta State government nor the Delta State police command has made any statement on the arrest of Mr Oghenedoro.
Meanwhile, human rights advocates, Mr Omes Ogedegbe and Comrade Efemina Umukoro Akima, have raised alarm concerning the safety of the journalist and petitioned the Delta State Police Command, demanding the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and release of the journalist, noting that they visited the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Asaba, and that officers at the Human Rights Section told them that Mr Oghenedoro has been moved to the Anti-Kidnapping Section.
However, they said when they visited the Anti-Kidnapping Section, they denied that he was being detained in their facility.
