•Khalid Aminu One of the participants of the August #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests has offered a harrowing narration of how operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested him in Kano, detained and tortured him for over 60 days. Khalid Aminu, an engineer by profession, said he was picked up alongside other young demonstrat...
•Yahaya Idris The Department of State Services, DSS has been urged to release Yahaya Idris it allegedly detained since January, 2024 without prosecution. In a statement signed by Yahaya Otaru on behalf of the family and made available to journalists today in Lokoja, Otaru noted that the disappearance of Yahaya Idris since January 18, 2024 [&he...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has slammed a N5.5 billion defamation suit against a group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for allegedly making false claims that officials of the agency invaded the Abuja office of the group. In the suit, filed in the names of two of its officials – Sarah John […]
•NLC President, Joe Ajaero and DSS The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says its President, Joe Ajaero, was not invited by Department of State Services (DSS) before being arrested. NLC spokesman, Benson Upah, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. “Our attention has been drawn to a story (circulating in different media platforms) linked to “sou...
•Ajaero and DSS President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has shed light on his recent ordeal with the Department of State Services (DSS) and other security agencies following his arrest on Monday. The DSS had detained Ajaero for over 16 hours at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, seizing his phones […]...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed visiting the office of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in Abuja. The human rights group had raised the alarm over an “unlawful occupation” of its offices and called on President Bola Tinubu to direct the DSS to end the “harassment, intimidation and attack on the ...
•DSS arrests NLC President, Joe Ajaero The Department of State Services has granted administrative bail to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. He was released a few minutes before the 12midnight ultimatum issued by the Organised Labour, reports The PUNCH. Pro-democracy activist and presidential candidate of the African Ac...
The United Action Front of Civil Society, the arrowhead of the organised civil society and pro democracy movement of Nigeria, has condemned the reported arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. The civil society group also frowns at the widely reported invasion of the Abuja offices of the Social [&helli...
•NLC President, Joe Ajaero Operatives of the Department of the State Services have arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. It was learnt that Ajaero was arrested today morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment, reports The PUNCH. The NLC [&...
•#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters The reasons the immediate past Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, and the DG of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar, resigned from their positions have been revealed. Sources within the presidency told our correspondent that President Bola Tinubu and the Nation...
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