Huhuonline.com can disclose that the  Department of State for Security (DSS), has arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. 

Ajaero was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Aiport in Abuja on Monday on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment., the NLC said.

Head of Information of the NLC, Mr Benson Upah, confirmed his  arrest to our correspondent .

The NLC president was billed to attend the Trade Union Congress conference in London, which begins today.

Upah said the union does not know where Ajaero had been taken but he had sent a message saying it was the DSS that arrested him.