Tag: DSS
I was paid to indict Modu Sheriff as Boko Haram sponsor – Negotiator
Abubakar Yusuf, alias Baba Sani, has admitted that he was a former member of the sect and was paid to…
DSS torture APC workers, force them to tender false confessions
The DSS resorted to torture to obtain forced confessions from the workers who were arrested during the raid of the…
APC Says DSS Is Lawless After Second Raid On Data Centre
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of lawlessness and an orchestrated provocation the second raid that…
DSS frees detained APC staff
Justice Muhammed Nasir Yunusa, of a Lagos Federal High Court in Lagos, has ordered the immediate release of five workers…
DSS refuses to produce detained APC staff despite court order
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this morning re-affirmed its earlier order made on the…
Court bars DSS, others from Invading APC Data Center
Justice Mohammed Nasir Yenusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos today gave two orders in respect of the case…
Our data centre not for cloning PVCs, APC tells DSS
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday rejected the allegation that its data centre in Lagos was used to clone…
Chaos as Police, DSS stop Tambuwal from entering premises
There is chaos at the National Assembly after policemen and Department of State Security operatives stopped the speaker of the…
2015: Why Soyinka Shouldn’t Run
By Nduka Uzuakpundu The recently concluded National Conference was, indubitably, a well-thought-out political initiative by, President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. It…
Man, 34, to spend 34 months in jail for written threat
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba An Asaba High Court has sentenced a 34 year-old Agbor-based carpenter, Monday Ogbuenyi, to 34 months behind…
DSS to appeal judgement on El-Rufai
Nigeria secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) said on Tuesday that it would appeal the judgment of the…
DSS arrests NTA reporter over N50M bribe demand
The Niger State command of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday paraded Sampson Oghenedoro, a 28-year old staff…
DSS, Marilyn Ogar, Boko Haram and National Security
Following the exposure of former Borno state governor, Ali Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika as sponsors…
DSS investigates alleged Boko Haram sponsor
The Department of State Services (DSS) says it is investigating former governor of Borno, Modu Sheriff, over allegation that he…
Why Maigari was arrested by DSS – Sports Ministry
National Sports Commission, NSC, says it wishes to put the record straight on the reason for the arrest of former…
Maigari released by DSS after arrest
The head of Nigeria’s embattled football association was released from custody on Wednesday after being arrested before a general assembly…
Osun Poll: Detainees Sue DSS, Army, Police; Demand N1.5bn
Jamiu Yisa Fifteen persons who were allegedly arrested, detained and harassed during the 9 August governorship election in Osun state,…
Suicide Bombing: DSS says 13 Catholic Sisters’ regalia stolen
The Department of State of State Service (DSS) has warned that terrorists may be planning to attack in a different…
APC warns DSS against arrest of its Borno Chairman
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly warned against the plan by the DSS, acting at the behest of some…
APC lambasts DSS, Ogar for linking party with Boko Haram
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the thinly-veiled attempt by the Department of State Security (DSS) to link the…
Osun Election: We’re attacked because we rejected N14mn bribe – DSS
The Department of State Service (DSS) said on Tuesday that an unnamed political party offered its men N14 million which…
Don’t use security agencies to settle scores, FG tells politicians
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja cautioned politicians in the country against involving security personnel in settling their personal…
DSS nabs 4 over kidnap, muder of school proprietress
The FCT Command of the Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested four suspected kidnappers over the alleged kidnap and…
Ezekwesili seeking unnecessary importance – DSS
Marilyn Ogar, spokesperson of the Department of State Services (DSS), has denied a report that Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, a coordinator…
Kidnappers got N10m to release two girls – DSS
The Department of State Services (DSS), said ten persons who kidnapped two sisters in Abuja on 8 June, received N10…
Abuja bombing: DSS claims malls were warned
The spokesperson of Nigeria’s Department of State Security, Marilyn Ogar said the agency warned shopping complexes in Abuja for two…
Gov Oshiomhole Orders Demolition Of Kidnappers’ Den
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, southern Nigeria, has ordered the demolition of a block of four flats…
5 Suspects arrested over Abuja bombings
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The State Security Service (SSS) also known as Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday paraded five suspects…
DSS arraigns kidnappers of Archbishop Kattey
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three men suspected to be the kidnappers of Bishop Ignatius Cosby Ogborun Kattey, the Anglican ArchBishop of…
NHRC’s Verdict On Extra-Judicial Killing
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, hit the bull’s eye when it declared Monday that eight squatters killed in Abuja…