In a significant ruling on Friday, the Federal High Court in Abuja directed the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to constitute an independent medical panel to evaluate the health condition of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice James Omotosho issued the directive, mandating that...
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The desperate propaganda that Nnamdi Kanu’s health is “deteriorating” is nothing but a tired tactic. This is the same strategy he used in 2017 when he was granted bail to Senator Abaribe, and instead of facing trial, he vanished. Nigerians must not be fooled again. The character of Nnamdi...
Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) party in the last general elections, Omoyele Sowore, has been challenged to exercise his freedom of expression and post comments on X and Facebook calling the US President, Donald Trump, criminal. The challenge was thrown by a group, Northern Ethic...
The Department of State Services (DSS), has received commendation for recording a chain of operational successes against criminal elements in Zamfara State. Traditional rulers in Zamfara, who made the commendation, said they were particularly impressed by the recent arrest of two arms couriers along the Funtua-Gusau expressway. The monarchs’...
Arguably the poster-boy of Nigeria’s activism ecosystem, online publisher of SaharaReporters and rambunctious politician, Omoyele Sowore, has probably earned his epaulets, tracking his nimble interventions and a wide swathe of comic escapades he has scripted in the last two decades, often laced with quaint rhetorical violence. But has the...
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has launched two significant lawsuits at the Federal High Court in Abuja, targeting the Department of State Services (DSS), Meta (Facebook), and X Corp. The legal actions, filed to protect fundamental rights, aim to counter what Sowore’s legal...
.. Lists “X”, Meta Incorporation as defendants The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed a five- count charge against presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore over his comments on President Bola Tinubu. In the suit filed on Tuesday before a Federal High Court in...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday declined to hear a motion filed by Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order transferring him from the custody of Department of the State Service DSS to the National Hospital in Abuja for urgent medical attention. The presiding judge,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an application filed by the Department of State Services (DSS), to expedite proceedings in the trial of the suspected mastermind of the August 26, 2011 bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja, Khalid Al Barnawi and 4 others....
Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called off its industrial action after the Department of State Services (DSS) brokered a truce between the Federal Government, oil industry stakeholders, and organised labour. It was gathered that the resolution followed a high-level meeting convened in Abuja with...
In this analysis, ERIC IKHILAE writes that with their mode of operation, security agencies in the country are generally regarded as state’s agents of oppression and coercion, but that, with recent developments, the State Security Service (SSS), also referred to as the Department of State Services (DSS), appears to...
If a man cooks for a community ,the meal would scarcely go round, However, if a community decides to cook for a man, the feast will overwhelm him – old African proverb. The foregoing may have aptly captured the likely outcome of the current standoff between the Department of...
Barely 48 hours after it asked X (formerly Twitter) to ban the X account of activist Omoyele Sowore, the Department of State Services (DSS), has sent another petition to Meta, demanding for immediate and urgent ban/deactivation of his Facebook account. The DSS, in a petition dated 7th September,2025 and...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS), has sent a petition to X (formerly known as Twitter), asking that the X account owned by popular publisher, politician and activist, Omoyele Sowore, be banned or deactivated. The petition in which the demand for the immediate ban/deactivation...
……Hails Bishop Arogundade on 35th Ordination Anniversary Governor of Ondo State in South-west Nigeria, Dr. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, on Saturday vowed that his administration would not relent in the pursuit of justice for victims of the June 5, 2022 terrorist attack in Owo, describing security as a top priority...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed multiple charges against two commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group, Abu Baraa and Mahmuda, who were captured by Nigerian security forces last month. The Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan, popularly called Ansaru, is the arm of al-Qa‘ida in the Lands of...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Department of State Security (DSS), have received commendation for the arrest and arraignment of nine suspects in connection with the bloody attacks in Benue and Plateau states. Prominent Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, who made the commendation in a post shared on...
Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday arraigned nine individuals before a Federal High Court in Abuja over their alleged complicity in recent killings in Benue and Plateau states. The nine, named as defendants in six separate charges took turn to enter their pleas to the allegations raised against...
By JOY ADARA , Abuja- Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, filed charges against nine suspects allegedly linked to the recent deadly attacks on Yelwata, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, as well as in parts of Plateau State. NATIONAL ACCORD...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulmalik Mohammed Sarkin-Daji, has commended the Department of State Services (DSS) and Nigerian Army for reportedly neutralizing over 50 bandits in the state and rescuing seven kidnaped victims in the process. The Speaker made the...