Nigeria, March 28 -- A Nigerian journalist, Segun Olatunji, has regained his freedom after 14 days in a military detention facility in Abuja.

Mr Olatunji's release was announced on Thursday at a joint presser by the International Press Institute, the Nigerian Guild of Editors and the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Abuja.

Mr Olatunji, the editor of FirstNews, was abducted from his home in Lagos, South-west, on 15 March. Hours later he was blindfolded and flown into Abuja on a military aircraft.

But the military authorities denied Mr Olatunji's abduction until Wednesday evening when they admitted detaining the journalist.

When confronted by three journalists associations in Nigeria, the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, a gener...