Tag: State Security Service
SSS cautions on dependence on social media
Julius Owoupeta, a senior official of the State Security Service (SSS) has urged Nigerians to be cautious in relying on…
Customs handover smuggler of military uniforms, boots
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) says the suspect who was caught attempting to smuggle military camouflage and boots among other…
SSS Frees El-Rufai
Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Security Service, SSS, early Tuesday morning released Nasir El- Rufai, former Minister of…
Fear Of Boko Haram: Mass Deportation Of Illegal Aliens
The Nigerian Immigration Service has commenced the mass deportation of illegal aliens arrested in different parts of Lagos State, southwest…
SSS Chief Advises Boko Haram To Embrace Dialogue
The Director of the State Security Service (SSS) in Borno, Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed, has advised members of the Boko Haram…
Suleja Bombing: Suspects’ Material Could Produce 200 Bombs
An Army Officer told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that the bomb components seized from four suspects…
Tight Security As Jonathan Graces Braithwaite’s Book Launch
A horde of police officers and soldiers as well as State Security Service officials mounted security on Tuesday around the…
On State Police: Let’s Think Again, Please
For quite some time, Nigerians have had little cause for joy and satisfaction with their appointed minders, the Nigeria Police…
Security Agencies Educate Okada Riders
Commercial motorcycle operators popularly known as Okada riders in Badagry have been commended by security agencies. The commendation came during…
Robbery: SSS Sacks 2 Operatives
The State Security Service, SSS has dismissed two of its officials who it described as auxiliary staff over their alleged…
Be Security Conscious, SSS Boss Tells Nigerians
The Lagos State Director of the State Security Service, Mr. Achu Ben Olayi, has warned Nigerians to be sensitive to…
Man To Die By Hanging For Killing Dad, Mom, 3 Siblings
A Kano High Court in Kano State, Northcentral Nigeria, on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging Bello Garuba who on…
Ex-Edo PDP Woman Leader Petitions IGP Over Threat To Life
Barr. Lucy Omagbon, former Woman Leader of Edo State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who recently defected to the…
SSS Impounds 35 Drums Of Chemicals, Arrests Suspect
The State Security Service, SSS, in Kano northwest Nigeria, Wednesday paraded a suspect, Ayuba Usman, who was arrested in with…
Aregbesola Slams Omisore
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, southwest Nigeria today described claims that he planned to excise his state from Nigeria…
SSS Arraigns Businessman For Criminal Intimidation, Extortion
The State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday arraigned a 35-year-old businessman, Haruna Hassan, on a two-count charge of extortion and…
SSS Parades Suspected Kidnappers Of UAE Businessman
The State Security Service, SSS, on Thursday paraded seven men accused of being part of the gang that mastermind the…
Abuja Bomb Blast: Army Captain Charged In Lagos
A retired Army Captain arrested in connection with the Independence Day bomb blast on 1 October, 2010 at Eagle Square,…
Gunmen Kill SSS Operative
Gunmen late Sunday shot dead state security service officer in front of his house in the northeastern city of Damaturu,…
SSS Arrests Boko Haram Spokesman, Abul Qaqa In Maiduguri
Officials of the State Security Service (SSS) in Borno State have confirmed the arrest of Boko Haram spokesman, Abul Qaqa…
SSS Parades 11 Kidnappers
The State Security Service (SSS) in Edo state today paraded 11 suspected kidnappers including two ladies. One of them identified…
3 Die In Army, Boko Haram Shootout
Residents of Tsamninya, Kano, Kano state, Northwest Nigeria could not enjoy their night rest in the early hours of this…
Attempt To Burn Down Church Foiled
A middle-aged man whose name was given as Wisdom King is now chatting with the men of the State Security…
Security: PAC Members Urged To Assist Police, SSS
To confront the incessant security challenges in the country, the Police Assistance Committee (PAC), is strategising on how its members…
SSS Arrests 5 Suspected Pirates
The State Security Service (SSS) said on Thursday in Lagos that it had apprehended five suspected pirates, including a man…
Akala Faces 11 Count Charge
An Oyo High Court has ordered the former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala to be remanded at the custody…
SSS Monitors Mosques, Churches To Check Volatile Preaching
Men of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kogi have started monitoring preaching in mosques and churches, as part of…
NBA Fauls SSS On Arrested Boko Haram Members
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Wednesday faulted the decision of the State Security Service, SSS, not to prosecute the…
BOKO HARAM: SSS Nabs Cell Commanders In Six Northern States
The Department of State Security Service, SSS, on Monday in Abuja announced that the war against the dissident group also…
Girl, 6, Rescued From Kidnappers
Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS, have rescued a 6-year old girl from her abductors after she spent 13…