The Department of State Services (DSS) has said the Presidency ordered the investigation of a trader, Anthony Okolie, who was using a telephone line previously owned by the President’s daughter, Hanan Buhari. The DSS said this in a counter-affidavit in response to the originating motion filed by Okolie. The DSS position seems to be at
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Daughter of the Nigeria President, Hanan Buhari, has finally responded to allegations that the Department of State Services detained a trader, Anthony Okolie, for 10 weeks for using a telephone line that was earlier used by her. Hanan said although she had received complaints from relatives that someone was using her old line to solicit
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Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, on Monday, refused to comment on threats by the Boko Haram sect to ‘deal’ with him. Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, had in a recent video vowed to deal with Pantami over the minister’s plans to block the terror group’s communication network. Shekau, in the video
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied social media reports claiming Boko Haram has stormed the Middle Belt including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, or heading for the South to wreak havoc. DSS said the “alleged hijack of the luxury buses belonging to three major transport companies on the Lokoja-Okene Road” by criminals was fake news.
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The Department of State Services (DSS), allegedly arrested and detained one Anthony Okolie for 10 weeks for buying and using an MTN SIM card previously used and abandoned by Hanan Buhari, the daughter of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Sahara Reporters, the telephone number was recycled and put up for sale by the popular
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Department of Security Services (DSS) Tuesday said it was not holding a government critic, months after he was abducted from his home in Kaduna. Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata was whisked away from his home in August by men suspected to be security operatives in August. “As he was about to lock the gate,
Read moreA middle-aged man has been allegedly shot dead by personnel of the Department of State Services in Alor, Idemili South local government area, Anambra state. The victim whose name was giving as Onyeocha Umuokwu, a domestic staff to one Engr Emeka Eze was allegedly killed by the officer attached to a VIP’s house in the
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Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja has withdrawn from the fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by the ‘RevolutionNow’ protests convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, seeking an order for his release from custody of the Department of State Service. There have been no fresh charges instituted against Sowore since he was rearrested by
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Report reaching Fox Channel has it that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the publisher Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services (DSS). A statement coming from the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu,
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, says the Federal Government has ordered an investigation into the Friday invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja, by the operatives of the Department of State Service. The DSS, in an attempt to re-arrest the RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore, had invaded the court,
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A coalition of civil society organizations has petitioned the United States to protest the re-arrest of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the Department of State Services at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The groups, during a protest to the US embassy in Abuja, submitted a petition to the American
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The Presidency, Sunday, said the detained RevolutionNow leader Omoyele Sowore, is a person of interest to the Department of State Services (DSS), which does not need the permission of President Muhammadu Buhari to do its work whenever it needs to act. Presidency noted that Sowore’s antecedents and actions ordinarily make him a person of interest
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…Urges Nigerians to defend the rule of law. The Nigerian Bar Association has reacted to the invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja, by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in an attempt to re-arrest Mr. Omoyele Sowore, who was released less than 12 hours before. The statement in full: DESECRATION AND ASSAULT
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Bob Menendez, a Senator of the United States of America, representing New Jersey, has condemned the actions of the Nigeria Department of State Services (DSS) for re-arresting Omoyele Sowore, the RevolutionNow protest leader. Menendez in a video addressing the world press conference with Sowore’s wife said; “He (Sowore) was released by a court order. He
Read moreChaos as DSS storm courtroom to rearrest Sowore
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