The Department of State Services (DSS) has paid N20 Million in compensation for the accidental shooting of a Sokoto businessman sometime in 2016. During the pre-dawn operation to arrest a suspected gunrunner in Jos, Plateau State, DSS operatives mistakenly shot and injured the businessman who, incidentally, bore the same name with the suspected gunrunner,…
The Department of State Services has clarified its presence at the Lagos State House of Assembly, stating that its operatives were deployed at the request of the lawmakers to ensure security at the complex. Amid rising concerns about the security operation, which included the closure of offices belonging to the Speaker and Deputy…
Over 30 lawmakers from the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday stormed the Department of State Security office in the Magodo area of the state in protest against the detention of two of their colleagues who were invited a day before for questioning relating to issues of the state assembly. The two lawmakers are…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), after detaining him at Abuja airport. The Labour leader was released on bail at about 11pm on Monday but his international passport was seized. Ajaero was on his way to a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event in…
Some personnel of the Nigerian Secret Police, Department of State Services (DSS) have been caught in a video jubilating over the resignation of the immediate past Director-General, Yusuf Bichi. President Bola Tinubu had approved on Monday the appointment of new Directors-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS) on…
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has said that the kidnapping and murder of former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University, Prof. Olorunfemi Olaofe, was orchestrated by his domestic staff. Olaofe was abducted from his residence on July 9, 2024, and a gang of seven, invited by the househelp, carried out the kidnapping….
The Abuja Federal Highd Court has threatened to jail the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, for alleged contempt of court. The court issued the threat following the DSS’s penchant for disobeying its ruling regarding an order issued on Kanu’s visitation while in the custody of the secret police. In…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to shelve its planned protest in the interest of peace and public order. The NLC had last Friday, declared a two-day nationwide protest over the hardship being experienced by Nigerians as well as the deteriorating security situation in the country. But…
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc (AEDC) has said that the Clerk to the National Assembly, Ojo Olatunde Amos, the Nigeria Police Force, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of State Services (DSS), also known as State Security Services (SSS), owe a total of N3,416,204,222 in electricity bill. The AEDC said this…
