•Omoyele Sowore and Tinubu The Department of State Services (DSS) has requested that a Federal High Court in Abuja orders that the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore, be returned to prison custody over his inability to meet the conditions attached to the bail granted him. The DSS is [&h...
The Department of the State Service, DSS, has arraigned five associates of former Minister of Petroleum Chief Timipre Silva at the Federal High Court in Abuja on alleged information concealment on the whereabout of their principal implicated as alleged financier of aborted coup attempt against President Bola Tinubu. Silva, a former Governor of...
•DSS operatives and Nura Idris The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has ordered the immediate release of a man wrongfully linked to Boko Haram terrorists. The setting free followed a DSS investigation review panel that cleared Nura Idris of allegations of collaboration with Boko Haram terrori...
•Omoyele Sowore Nigerian workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have condemned what it described as the “inhuman treatment” of activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the Department of State Services at the Federal High Court in Abuja, warning that such actions pose a threat to democratic institutions. In...
Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), has ordered an internal investigation into the conduct of its operatives following a controversial incident in which activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, was forcibly removed from a courtroom. The move comes amid growing public scrutiny and criticism from l...
•Nasir el-Rufai Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has moved a step closer to testing the strength of the case against him after the Department of State Services (DSS) formally closed its prosecution in the alleged wiretapping trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The development came during proceedings today when counsel to...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has rejected proposals to allow foreign organisations fund security operations in Nigeria through a proposed Trust Fund. The secret agency warned that such arrangements could undermine national sovereignty, compromise operational confidentiality and expose the country’s intelligence architecture to extern...
•The suspects Operatives of the Department of State Services and troops of the Nigerian Army yesterday foiled a major attempt by members of the outlawed Eastern Security Network to kidnap scores of students writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination in some Southeast states. The targeted schools for the abductions w...
•Sunday Igboho, DSS operative and Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the Department of State Services and other security agencies to invite Yoruba nation campaigner, Sunday Igboho, to disclose the identities of politicians he alleged are sponsoring kidnappers responsible for the abduction of students and teacher...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that one of its staff members with legitimate access to its Continuous Voter Registration CVR database is now at the centre of an investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of a voter record belonging to a candidate in a recent party primary in the Federal Capital Territory...

