Tag: State Security Service
SSS Arrests 12 Suspected Kidnappers
Twelve suspected kidnappers operating in Edo State and its environs have been arrested by officials of the State Security Service,…
SSS Warns Politicians Against Violence
Alhaji Jibril Danmalam, Sokoto State Director of State Security Service (SSS), says security organisations in the state will not condone…
April Polls: SSS Parleys Political Parties Over Security
In a bid to address some of its security worries ahead of the forthcoming general elections in April, the Department…
ABUJA BOMB BLASTS: Undetonated Wired Car Recovered
The State Security Service, SSS, this afternoon in Abuja said it had made new findings in the course of their…
ABUJA BOMB BLASTS: AGF Opposes Dokpesi’s Suit
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, this morning before a Federal High Court sitting in…
Cecilia Ibru Seeks Transfer To LUTH
The convicted former Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, who is serving her six months…
Judge Aborts Secret Trial Of Charles Okah, Others
A chief magistrate’s court sitting in Abuja this morning aborted a planned secret trial of Mr. Charles Okah and six…
Abuja Bombings: Dokpesi Not Cleared Yet —SSS
The State Security Service, SSS, said this morning that it has not cleared Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the Director General of…
2 Chinese Men Arrested
Two Chinese citizens were, yesterday, arrested by the police for taking photographs of the vicinity around the Murtala Muhammed International…
Bomb Scare: Security Beefed Up Nationwide
Following the 1 October bomb blasts that killed at least 10 persons and injured 30 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, during…
Dokpesi Regains Freedom, Cancels Press Conference
Raymond Dokpesi, the director general of the presidential campaign organisation of former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, has been released. He…
12 Days After Kidnap: Police Negotiate Over Five Corps Members
Five Corps members, four female and one male, who were kidnapped on 16 September at about 11.30 p.m. by unidentified…
Litmus Test For Aspirants
Newspapers have been awash with reports that the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, would employ the services of anti-graft agencies…
‘Onovo Tried His Best’
Though the authorities may have thought that his best was not good enough for Nigeria, the immediate past Inspector-General of…
Safeguarding Youths On National Service
The vulnerability of members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to danger has again come under sharp focus following…
EFCC Head Of Forensic Unit Killed In Kaduna
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has confirmed that its head of forensic unit, Abdullahi Muazu was killed in…
Bloody Day In Kano: Gunmen Kill SSS Officer, Wife, 3 Children
It was a bloody day in Kano as unidentified gunmen early this morning invaded the home of Garba Bello Hadejia,…
Ogun Assembly Still Shut
Plan by the Tunji Egbetokun-led G-15 of the Ogun State House of Assembly, South-West Nigeria, to sit this morning was…
SSS Shuts Down Ogun Assembly
State Security Service, SSS, operatives this morning shut down the Ogun State House of Assembly following yesterday’s kangaroo impeachment by…
Gunmen Demand N100m To Free Kidnapped Wife Of Ex-LG Boss
Kidnappers of Mrs. Soye Aroloye Brown, wife of the former Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Council of Rivers State, who…
SSS Seizes Arms Being Taken To Jos
Officials with Nigeria’s security services say they have intercepted 52 Kalashnikov rifles and tens of thousands of ammunition rounds heading…
Yar’Adua’s CSO Retired From SSS
The Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Yusuf Tilde has been retired from the State Security…
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Falconets Zoom To Final, Beat Colombia 1-0 To Book Ticket Against Germany
Despite the litany of goal scoring chances they missed in their semi final match against Colombia this evening, Nigeria’s Falconets…
EFCC To Prosecute Victims Of Impostors
Baring any last minute change in policy, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will soon commence the arrest and…
Kidnapping: ‘FG Must Wage Relentless War’
The Federal Government has been charged to wage a relentless war against the raging wave of kidnapping in the country…
Whereabouts Of Kidnapped Journalists Still Unknown
The whereabouts of the Chairman, Lagos State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ, Mr. Wahab Oba and four…
Securing Lagos Metropolis Against Electoral Thugs
In a city as big as Lagos, Nigeria, cases of electoral violence are not uncommon. Thuggery and hooliganism had been the…
Police, SSS Set To Ban ‘Okada’ On Expressway
The police and the State Security Service (SSS) said they are battle ready to enforce the ban placed on commercial…
Oyo Lawmakers Hold Session Amid Tight Security
Uneasy calm pervaded the premises of the Oyo State House of Assembly in Agodi, Ibadan, Nigeria, today as the crisis…
SSS Abducts High Court Judge
Some armed men suspected to be operatives of State Security Service (SSS) have abducted Alhaji Musa Anka, a High Court…