A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Nov. 10 for hearing the application of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, challenging the competency of the charge preferred against him by the Federal Government. Justice Binta Nyako, on Thursday, fixed the date after counsel to the IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, informed…
Fifteen officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have been arrested through a joint security operation led by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly extorting monies from motorists on highways across the country. The officials were arrested on the 12th of August 2021, simultaneously in Adamawa, Gombe, Ondo…
There has been a report of an attempted arrest of popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, by a joint team of soldiers, Department of State Services, and policemen on Friday afternoon. But the arrest was resisted by his supporters as commotion ensued between his supporters and the joint team which sought to arrest him by force.…
Six teachers at the Federal Government Girls College in Calabar on Thursday alleged that they were beaten in the presence of pupils by operatives of the Department of State Services, Cross River State Command. They alleged that the armed security officials stormed the school premises at about 10am on the invitation of a female DSS…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been accused by the Department of State Services, DSS, of planning to disrupt machinery of governance in strategic Federal Government Agencies. This, according to the country’s secret police, is to be done by provoking a violent breach of peace in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja during the festive…
A non-governmental organization based in Osogbo, Osun State, the Justice Now Foundation, JNF, has called for the arrest and investigation of the operatives of a two-man civil society organisation code-named Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEOS. JNF, in a terse statement issued in Osogbo on Saturday by its chairman, Lanre Afolayanka,…
Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Garba Rikiji, has been arrested by officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, in the state. Also apprehended by the secret police were the deputy speaker of the Assembly, Muhammad Abubakar Gumi; the majority leader, Isah Abdulmumini and the chief whip, Abdullahi Dansadau. It was…
Outspoken Nigerian federal lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, got what he never bargained for on Monday, May 30, 2016. The Senator from Bayelsa State disclosed that men of the Department of State Security, DSS, prevented him from having a hand shake with President Muhammadu Buhari. On Monday, the President threw a Presidential Dinner in Abuja. He used…
Former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamoiwei Dudafa, has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS, in Lagos. Dudafa was apprehended on Monday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos upon his arrival from abroad. He was said to have been handed over to the Economic…
An alleged strategic accomplice of Khalid Al-Barnawi has been arrested and paraded by the Department of State Security, DSS. The suspect, one Bello Danhajiya, a Fulani from Zamfara State, was shown to the media on Wednesday. He is presumed to be second in command. It was disclosed that he confessed his involvement in gun-running, cattle…