The Department of State Services (DSS) has taken swift action against one of its personnel, Ifeanyi Onyewuenyi, who has been accused of abducting, defiling, and forcing the conversion of a 16-year-old girl, Walida Abdulhadi. The arrest was made following a petition submitted to the DSS Director-General by an Abuja-based law firm, Gamji Lawchain, on behalf […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has issued security warning to Nigerians ahead of the governorship and state house of elections in the country. The DSS said the plot is designed to cause total chaos after the governorship and state assembly elections. In a statement released on Wednesday by Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, the security […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied that it is involved in a legal dispute with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, over allegations of non-declaration of assets. DSS in a statement by it’s spokesperson Peter Afunanya, responded to a report in a newspaper that incorrectly claimed that a […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has accused the arrested Tukur Mamu, the Kaduna train attack negotiator, of terrorist financing, aiding and abetting acts of terrorism. DSS said the publisher of Desert Herald is involved in the funding of international and local terrorism. The DSS alleged that Tukur shares information with terrorist groups, resulting in […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed the arrested of Tukur Mamu ‘the self-acclaimed Kaduna Train hostage negotiator’, who is also the publisher of Desert Herald. Recall that Mamu, who has been involved in negotiations for the release of persons abducted during an attack on a train in Kaduna, was arrested in Kano on Wednesday. According to a […]
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An Abuja Federal High Court , on Monday, ordered the Department of State Service, DSS, to pay N5 million to one of the lawyers defending the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Maxwell Opara. The court, in a judgement which was delivered by Justice Zainab Abubakar, equally directed the […]
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The Department of State Services, DSS, has raised an alarm that the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorist organization is training suicide bombers in the North-East. The Director of the security agency in Adamawa State, Babagana Bulama, said the training of suicide bombers is aimed at carrying out a deadly attack soon. Bulama […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has released eight of the aides of Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba agitator popularly known as Sunday Igboho, after over two months of detention. The DSS released the eight detainees on Monday leaving four in detention, their lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, confirmed at a press conference. The released persons are Abdullateef […]
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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, dispersed medical doctors, who were at the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, to take part in the recruitment exercise organised by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health. Recall that it was reported on Tuesday, that medical consultants in their hundreds flooded the Ladi Kwali Hall at Sheraton […]
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A high court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state has granted an ex-parte motion restraining the Department of State Services (DSS) and attorney-general of the federation from “arresting, intimidating, harassing, and blocking bank accounts of Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho”. The judge, Ladiean Akintola, granted the order on Wednesday following an ex-parte motion moved […]
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