Nigeria, May 6 -- The Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, says the federal government is working to "resolve" the issue of the detained journalist, Ojukwu.

Mr Idris stated this on Saturday night at the NUJ Press Freedom and Good Governance Awards in Abuja.

Mr Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), was abducted by the police on 1 May and has been in detention since then.

The abduction of the journalists, whose newspaper recently published some stories on corruption involving the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and some individuals, is generating considerable backlash against the government.

"I know that we have had some challenges, especially in the last couple of weeks concerning one journalis...