By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– The management of Guardian Newspapers Limited has apologized to the Department of State Services (DSS) over a story the newspaper house published portraying the secret police as meddling in the affairs of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Entitled “Lagos Assembly Crisis Worsens, Reveals Deeper...
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Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Akari Loveday, has been rescued from his abductors by the Nigerian Army troops. Loveday was rescued on Sunday by troops of the Nigerian Army, in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy, the Department of...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has received commendation for deeming it worthy to host Muslim Ummah to a befitting Iftar. National Secretary-General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Prof. Khalid Aliyu Abubakar, who made the commendation, underscored the significance...
A Chief Magistrate Court in Lokoja, on Friday remanded a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Austin Okai, in Correctional Centre pending the investigations labeled against him by Directorate of State Security Service (DSS). Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Musa-Mopa, of the Lugard Chief Magistrate Court, gave the order after listening to...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested three persons linked to the assault on its officers during the uproar which greeted fears early in the week in the Lagos State House of Assembly, that Mudashiru Obasa, who was removed as Speaker, would be...
The immediate past Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has said allegations of a sudden discovery of a “cache of arms and ammunition” in his office are an attempt to tarnish his image. Obasa, a six-term lawmaker, made this known in a personally signed statement...
The Senate has summoned the National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, to provide a briefing on the alleged funding of Boko Haram by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Also invited are the heads of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Department of...
A policeman, Insp Nelson Otasowie, on Wednesday told an FCT High Court in Zuba that the four defendants, dressed in uniforms belonging to the Department of State Services’ (DSS) to rob their victims in Abuja. The police charged Michael Obi, Success Momoh, Bitrus Danladi as well as one Solomon...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– The Directorate of State Security Service (DSS), has threatened to drag Daar Communications Plc, and Channels Television to court for what it regarded as false, defamatory and malicious publication on the commotion witnessed at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday. While many media...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have denied an online report alleging that the ongoing speakership crisis is linked to the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, made the clarification in a statement issued in Lagos...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called for a thorough investigation into a viral video showing armed operatives from the Department of State Service (DSS) at the Lagos State House of Assembly. Abubakar, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, described the action of the security...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday in Ikeja passed a vote of confidence in the leadership of Mojisola Meranda as the substantive Speaker. The lawmakers passed the resolution through a voice vote after Oladipo Ajomale (Oshodi-Isolo 2) moved a motion affirming the Assembly’s trust in...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for a thorough investigation into the Department of State Services (DSS) for its undue interference at the complex on Monday. Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Security, and Strategy, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, made this known in a statement statement in...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have faulted the presence of armed personnel of Department of State Security (DSS) at the assembly complex in Ikeja on Monday. The House, at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, called on the state’s Director of DSS to...
The family of Nigerian music veteran, Innocent Idibia, aka ‘2Baba’, on Friday declared him missing and petition the Department of State Security Service (DSS). The petition signed by Wilson Anuge on behalf of Anuge, Anuge & Co., now viral on social media, has sparked concerns from fans of the...
A masked witness, identified as Prosecution Witness-D (PW-D) on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he paid N80 million ransom for the release of his mother and sister during the 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train terrorists attack . The witness testified before Justice Inyang Ekwo in the ongoing...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has confirmed that the Department of State Security (DSS) has released the detained lawmakers after hours of interrogation over the speakership crisis. The Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Information, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Dauda Lawal on Tuesday night commended the Department of State Services (DSS) for sharing intelligence with the Nigerian Armed Forces which led to the seizure of a large cache of arms and ammunition couriered from Niger Republic. The Governor’s commendation...
A Department of State Service (DSS) official, Mr Stephen Okolo, has said that the deployment of technology aided the arrest of three security personnel facing charges of kidnapping and banditry in Oyo State. Okolo said this in his testimony before Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court in...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been requested to restrain President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and other officials from using the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to impede the activities of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), particularly its Chairman, Justice Danladi Yakubu...