A Federal High Court in Abuja has urged caution and restraint from both the Department of State Services (DSS) and Professor Pat Utomi, amid legal proceedings over alleged plans to create a “shadow government” in Nigeria. Presiding Judge James Omotosho issued the directive on Wednesday after the DSS claimed that Utomi, a respected academic and…
A witness from Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), have resulted in the deaths of between 170 and 200 security personnel in the country’s South East. The…
A Nigerian civil society organisation has lauded the Department of State Services (DSS) following the arrest of suspected members of a criminal network accused of plotting high-profile kidnappings during the Eid El-Kabir festivities. In a press release issued on 9 May 2025, the Centre for Human Rights and Accountability Network (CHRAN) described the DSS’s actions…
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Wednesday, filed a fresh application against Prof. Pat Utomi at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged plans to hold rallies in relation to the subject of a suit pending against him. The DSS, in the application filed through its lawyer, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, before Justice…
A witness and an operative of Department of State Services (DSS), identified as BBB, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that his office was not involved in the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu in Kenya. BBB, who was the 2nd prosecution witness (PW-2) in the ongoing trial of Kanu, the leader of the…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, fixed June 25 for the hearing of a suit filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) against Prof. Pat Utomi over his alleged plan to establish what he called, “a shadow government” in the country. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date after DSS’ counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde,…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has sued Prof. Pat Utomi over his alleged plan to establish what he called, “a shadow government” in the country. The DSS, in a suit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, prayed the court to declare the move as an attack on the constitution. The News Agency…
The State Security Service, SSS, has threatened two prominent broadcast stations with lawsuit over what they described as false and malicious report against them organisation. According to the security Agency, Africa Independent Television, AIT amd Channels Television both aired false report against it on the crisis that rocked the Lagos State House, of Assembly, on…
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have faulted the presence of armed personnel of Department of State Security (DSS) at the assembly complex in Ikeja on Monday. The House, at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, called on the state’s Director of DSS to explain the reasons for the personnel’s…
In light of the ongoing investigation into the activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), all senior officials of the Central Bank are being interviewed by the DSS and the appointed special investigator. The deputy governors are not exempt from this exercise and have all been called upon to provide essential information at different…
