The Department of State Services (DSS) has terminated the employment of 115 workers. The DSS disclosed this in a statement released on Tuesday via its official social media pages and website. The secret police noted that the affected workers were sacked as part of ongoing reforms in the service It therefore warned members of the…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has trailed to Oyigbo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and arrested one Innocent Chukwuma who ,used his social media handle to rally the military to overthrow the current government. Posting on his “X” handle “@TheAgroman,” Chukwuma stated that a coup was needed in Nigeria and called on the military to…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has barred Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, and his associates from going ahead with their plan to set up a shadow government in Nigeria. Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by the Department of State Services on Monday, Justice James Omotosho held that the creation of a shadow…
Details have emerged the reasons behind the arrest Kaduna-based social media influencer, Abubakar Muhammad, popularly known as Sultan, by the Department of State Services (DSS), for alleged cybercrime. Several social media influencers had over the weekend raised the alarm that Muhammad was arrested by unnamed security agents. His arrest had started a storm on social…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has questioned former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, following the recent attack on his convoy in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. Malami’s convoy was attacked on September 1, 2025, by suspected political thugs, shortly after he returned from a condolence visit to the family of…
The Federal Government has directed the management of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to fully implement the September 9 agreement guaranteeing workers’ right to join a union of their choice. The directive followed the Department of State Services’ (DSS) second intervention in four days…
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has suspended its ongoing nationwide strike over its face-off with the Dangote Group. NUPENG had on Monday declared a nationwide industrial action to protest the refusal of the Dangote Group to allow its workers to join the union, particularly NUPENG. It was gathered that the…
The global tech giant X (formerly Twitter), has refused to honour the request by the Nigerian secret police, Department of State Services, DSS, to delete anti-President Bola Tinubu tweet by the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. The San Francisco-based company declined a formal request by the DSS to delete a controversial post made by…
It has been revealed how former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo clashed with the Department of State’s Security (DSS) over the refusal of the agency to obey a court order for the release of Omoyele Sowore during the Muhammadu Buhari administration. This is contained in a new book by Richard Akinnola, titled “I WRITE WHAT…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to admit statements made by three men accused of working for Iranian handlers to spy on American and Israeli interests in Nigeria. The defendants, Haruna Ali Abbas, Ibrahim Hussaini Musa and Adam Suleiman, were arrested in Kano and Lagos in 2013…
