By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed five counts of terrorism-related charges against self-styled activist, Muhammad Mahdi Shehu, at the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna. Security sources familiar with the development hinted NATIONAL ACCORD on Wednesday that the move came a day...
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke of Osun has commended the Department of State Services (DSS) for the arrest of 10 suspected members of Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Ilesa-Osun. In a statement by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the Governor’s Spokesperson, made available to newsmen in Osogbo on...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), are now in a jubilant mood following the approval by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the appointment of Folashade Arinola Adekaiyaoja as Deputy Director-General for the Service. A large section of officers of the secret police,...
Three months after an official memo regarding his redeployment from the State House, Adegboyega Fasasi, Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, continues to remain in his position. Fasasi’s defiance of a posting directive from the Department of State Security Service (DSS) has raised concerns about adherence...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have nabbed the man behind the recent cloning of its website in which a notice was placed to falsely inform Nigerians that the agency was recruiting. 32 year-old Sylvester Victor Augustus, a native of Abak Local...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of 49, 700. 00 US dollars allegedly recovered from Dr Nura Ali, former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for Sokoto State in the 2023 general elections. Justice Emeka Nwite gave...
An Abuja High Court on Monday, ordered the release of Alhaji Bello Bodejo, President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, from the Department of State Service (DSS) detention. Justice Mohammed Zubairu, in a ruling, described Bodejo’s detention since Dec. 9 after his arrest and without being charged to court...
Controversial activist, Dr Mahdi Shehu, who was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) at the weekend, may be charged to court soon., according to security sources. The arrest of Mahdi Shehu, who was being detained in Kaduna at the time of this report, may not be unconnected...
An Abuja High Court has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to release the detained President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, pending his trial. Justice Mohammed Zubairu, ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Lateef Fagbemi, and Director-General of the DSS, Mr Adeola Ajayi, to...
Some of the released EndBadGovernance protesters arrested during the August 2024 nationwide protests in Kaduna said they were never tortured while in detention. They also stated that they never saw their alleged sponsor, Khalid while in detention. Narrating their accounts after their release, they said they were treated fairly...
The absence of Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, stalled a N50 billion suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the Federal Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the matter, which was...
The detained former governorship candidate of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ladi Adebutu regained his freedom early Tuesday morning after being invited and quizzed by the Department of State Services. His release was confirmed by his media aide, Afolabi Orekoya on Tuesday . Adebutu’s release...
Operatives of the Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested three impersonators of the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) over alleged “one chance” robbery. The Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, Mr Olatunji Disu, said this during a media briefing on...
The Federal Government has filed a six-count charge against nine defendants over allegations bordering on disseminating a false information on the recent rumour about the impeachment of Senate President Godwil Akpabio. The charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/555/2024, was filed at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Oct. 21 by the...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has instituted a N5.5 billion defamatory suit against the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) . The department said SERAP made false claim that its operatives invaded SERAP’s Abuja office. The DSS, in the suit filed in the names of two of its...
On Wednesday, 28th August, 2024, Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi assumed office as the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS). He took over from Alhaji Yusuf Magaji Bichi who was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 14 September 2018, replacing Matthew Seiyefa. For a conservative elite security...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has denied the invasion of the National Assembly by the Department of State Services (DSS) over alleged impeachment move. Akpabio, who stated this on Wednesday’s plenary, said that the allegation reported on the social media that the DSS invaded the national assembly...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Chairman, State Directors of Department of State Services (DSS) in the North-East, Sani Bakori, has declared that though the subregion is faced with a myriad of security challenges, they are not insurmountable with the collaboration, innovation and determination of all stakeholders. He stated...
Chairman, Directors of the Department of Security Service (DSS), North-East, Mr Sani Bakori, has called for more collaborative efforts to address security challenges in the region. He stated this at the inauguration of the 17th conference of State Directors of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Wednesday in...
Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, recused herself from the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Justice Nyako withdrew from the case following oral applications by Kanu and his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, upon resumed...