The Department of State Service, DSS, Nigeria’s secret police, may have apprehended one of the right men of wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, Khalid Barnawi. According to tweets from Ahmad Salkida, a journalist used by Boko Haram to convey information to the Nigerian government and the public, Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, the Kogi…
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Wike After My Life—Dakuku
….As he escapes assassination attempt Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside, says the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike is after his life. In a statement issued Sunday night by his Special Assistant on Media, Sylvester Asoya, the NIMASA boss said the attempt on his life “not only terrifying, but also…
DSS Nabs Wike’s Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Chukwuemeka Woke, has been arrested by officials of the Department of State Security, DSS, in the state. Woke was apprehended on Sunday over an alleged assassination attempt on the life of Peterside Dakuku, the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in…
DSS Invasion: Ekiti Lawmakers Storm US, UK Embassies
Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly were on Monday at the embassies of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in Abuja to protest invasion of the Assembly by armed men of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Friday, March 4, 2016. The lawmakers also cried to the embassies over…
Reps Summon DSS Boss Over Ekiti Invasion
The Director-General of the Department of State Service, DSS, Lawal Daura, has been directed to appear before the House of Representatives within 48 hours. Daura was summoned for him to explain why his men invaded the Ekiti House of Assembly last Friday. The summon followed the unanimous adoption of a motion under matters of urgent…
DSS Invades Former DG's Lagos Home
DSS Invades Former DG’s Lagos Home According to information reaching us, men of the Department of State Services, DSS, are in the home of their former Director General, Kayode Are. Operatives of the country’s secret police stormed Are’s residence in Lagos on Wednesday in a bid to allegedly apprehend him. As at the time of…
DSS Begs To Suspend Nnamdi Kanu’s Case
The Department of State Services, DSS, has requested to halt the hearing of the case against leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, at a Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. On Monday, the director of Radio Biafra was finally brought to court amidst watertight security. At the hearing, the…
Vandals Kill 9 DSS Officials In Lagos
A bloody shootout between men of the Department of State Security, DSS, and suspected oil vandals in Lagos on Wednesday, which lasted several hours, left no fewer than eight of the security officials dead. It was gathered that the DSS officials had stormed Konu area of Arepo after NNPC reportedly informed the agency of activities…
DSS Fires Marilyn Ogar
Marilyn Ogar, the immediate past spokesperson of the Department of State Security, DSS, has been asked to proceed on a compulsory retirement, reports say. It was reported that the controversial DSS top shot was given the directive in a letter dated Tuesday, September 1, 2015. Ogar was promoted in early 2015 by former president Goodluck…
Court Grants Dasuki Bail
Former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, has been granted bail by the court. His plea for bail was okayed by the court on Tuesday based on self recognition after he pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him by the Department of State Security, DSS. Dasuki was charged for illegal possession of firearms…