•DSS boss Oluwatosin Ajayi and operatives The Director-General of the Department of State Services, Oluwatosin Ajayi, has directed operatives of the agency not to arrest anyone over civil matters. Ajayi said the directive was part of reforms introduced since he assumed office to strengthen adherence to the rule of law and improve the DSS’s hum...
•Omoyele Sowore The method adopted by the Department of State Services (DSS) in making public the suspension of the cyberbullying charges against the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, was faulted yesterday. Mr Olumide Fusika, SAN, the lead counsel to Sowore, knocked the procedure while addressing a press con...
•Sowore, DSS operatives and Tinubu The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to apologise and withdraw the alleged cybercrime case against him. Sowore spoke on Channels TV, today accusing the DSS of wrongful trial. “We were already in court, and when we wer...
•Omoyele Sowore and DSS operatives The Department of State Services (DSS) has directed its counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, to take steps to suspend the cybercrime case instituted against human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, until after the 2027 presidential election. The development fo...
•Atiku, Tinubu, Obi and Kwankwaso The Department of State Services (DSS) is beefing up security for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and 16 other presidential candidates as they prepare to move to the field for campaign ahead of the January 2027 election. A similar security measure has been extended to all presidential running ...
•Mustapha Marwana The Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has ordered the immediate release of a carpenter, Mustapha Marwana, who was cleared of allegations linking him to terrorist activities. According to a security source, the release followed a thorough investigation of his case by a DSS inv...
The Department of State Services (DSS) says it will appeal the life imprisonment of three men arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their role in the abduction of school pupils and teachers in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. The DSS is not satisfied with the verdict, arguing that the […]
•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...

