The Department of State Services (DSS), has released two reporters of Jay 101.9 FM, Jos, Plateau State, wrongfully arrested during the visit of President Bola Tinubu on Saturday. President Tinubu was in Plateau for the burial of mother of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwadta...
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*Awards N20mcCompensation Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has ordered the release ofan Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs. Chineze Ozoadibe, who was wrongfully arrested on the suspicion of her alleged involvement in illegal bunkering. He awarded her N10 million as compensation. The DSS boss also ordered that...
*As secret police, soldiers kill more bandits The Kwara State government has dismissed rumours that operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), disarmed vigilantes in Oke-Ode, a town in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state. Gunmen on Sunday reportedly killed 12 people and abducted an unspecified number...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday fixed October 27, 2025, for the arraignment of politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore for alleged false claim against the person of President Bola Tinubu by tagging him “a criminal.” The Department of State Services (DSS) had on behalf of...
Department of State Services (DSS) has arraigned Kaduna social media activist Abubakar Muhammad, widely known as Sultan, on charges of alleged extortion and criminal intimidation. Muhammad appeared before Chief Magistrate Muhammad Musa at a Magistrates’ Court in Rigasa, located in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Monday....
The stage is set for the arraignment on Tuesday of politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore; X Incorp (formerly Twitter) and Meta (Facebook) Incorp before a Federal High Court in Abuja over Sowore’s alleged false claim against the person of President Bola Tinubu by tagging him “a criminal.” The...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on September 29, 2025 deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) challenging the legality of Prof. Pat Utomi’s alleged plan to establish a “shadow government” in Nigeria. The presiding judge, James Omotosho, after entertaining arguments...
In a significant ruling on Friday, the Federal High Court in Abuja directed the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to constitute an independent medical panel to evaluate the health condition of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice James Omotosho issued the directive, mandating that...
The desperate propaganda that Nnamdi Kanu’s health is “deteriorating” is nothing but a tired tactic. This is the same strategy he used in 2017 when he was granted bail to Senator Abaribe, and instead of facing trial, he vanished. Nigerians must not be fooled again. The character of Nnamdi...
Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) party in the last general elections, Omoyele Sowore, has been challenged to exercise his freedom of expression and post comments on X and Facebook calling the US President, Donald Trump, criminal. The challenge was thrown by a group, Northern Ethic...
The Department of State Services (DSS), has received commendation for recording a chain of operational successes against criminal elements in Zamfara State. Traditional rulers in Zamfara, who made the commendation, said they were particularly impressed by the recent arrest of two arms couriers along the Funtua-Gusau expressway. The monarchs’...
Arguably the poster-boy of Nigeria’s activism ecosystem, online publisher of SaharaReporters and rambunctious politician, Omoyele Sowore, has probably earned his epaulets, tracking his nimble interventions and a wide swathe of comic escapades he has scripted in the last two decades, often laced with quaint rhetorical violence. But has the...
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has launched two significant lawsuits at the Federal High Court in Abuja, targeting the Department of State Services (DSS), Meta (Facebook), and X Corp. The legal actions, filed to protect fundamental rights, aim to counter what Sowore’s legal...
.. Lists “X”, Meta Incorporation as defendants The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed a five- count charge against presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore over his comments on President Bola Tinubu. In the suit filed on Tuesday before a Federal High Court in...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday declined to hear a motion filed by Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order transferring him from the custody of Department of the State Service DSS to the National Hospital in Abuja for urgent medical attention. The presiding judge,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an application filed by the Department of State Services (DSS), to expedite proceedings in the trial of the suspected mastermind of the August 26, 2011 bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja, Khalid Al Barnawi and 4 others....
Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called off its industrial action after the Department of State Services (DSS) brokered a truce between the Federal Government, oil industry stakeholders, and organised labour. It was gathered that the resolution followed a high-level meeting convened in Abuja with...
In this analysis, ERIC IKHILAE writes that with their mode of operation, security agencies in the country are generally regarded as state’s agents of oppression and coercion, but that, with recent developments, the State Security Service (SSS), also referred to as the Department of State Services (DSS), appears to...
If a man cooks for a community ,the meal would scarcely go round, However, if a community decides to cook for a man, the feast will overwhelm him – old African proverb. The foregoing may have aptly captured the likely outcome of the current standoff between the Department of...
Barely 48 hours after it asked X (formerly Twitter) to ban the X account of activist Omoyele Sowore, the Department of State Services (DSS), has sent another petition to Meta, demanding for immediate and urgent ban/deactivation of his Facebook account. The DSS, in a petition dated 7th September,2025 and...