Sowore was taken to court on Monday morning after last week’s ruling by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja granting him bail
Browsing: Department of State Services
In the charges, the Nigerian Government, which is detaining Sowore at the facility of the Department of State Services, accused him of treasonable felony and money laundering
Security personnel comprising mainly of operatives of the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps mounted security checks at both ends of the stretch of the road to the court
The Minister for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, conveyed the approval of the Federal Government in a letter to the State Governor, David Umahi.
The Team, comprising officials of ICPC, FRSC and the Department of State Services officials, also arrested five persons said to be agents of the corps officials in a sting operation carried out simultaneously in the six geopolitical zones
El-Zakzaky revealed this in a viral video when he spoke with some guests in India before departing for Nigeria without treatment
An intelligence operative with the DSS told PRNigeria that the erstwhile DailyTrust Editor was finally released in Kaduna at about 6pm on Friday and has since been re-united with his family
According to the newspaper, the couple arrived the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport at about midday.
They flew in with the commercial flight of Ethiopian Airlines
The detention order of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters was based on the request of the Department of State Services to further detain the convener of #RevolutionNow
Nigerians have arrived at a stricture of no going back. The country, according to millions, is overripe for revolution. Out there on the streets, there is a huge sense of disillusion compounded by the daily killings of innocent Nigerians by bandits and terrorists known as Fulani herdsmen
In a statement on Sunday, Soyinka said the arrest was “a travesty and violation of the fundamental rights of citizens to protest….”
The DSS Spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, said Sowore crossed the red line after he called for a revolution over alleged bad governance, insecurity and corruption, among other national issues
Sowore was arrested around 1:25am on Saturday by armed men suspected to be operatives of the Department of State Services ahead of the planned nationwide protest against bad governance, tagged: #Revolutionnow
The Aide said this in a tweet on her Twitter handle on Saturday
Sowore was picked up at about 1:25am on Saturday, two days before the commencement of a nationwide protest he is spearheading alongside musician Idris Abdulkareem on bad governance
According to the information made available by Sowore himself, the operatives of the DSS stormed his residence, which was not revealed, at about 1:25am on Saturday
In a re-assuring strategic response to the felt need for a futuristic approach to redressing the human resource and operational challenges affecting the intelligence, national security and law enforcement performance levels, the Department of State Services recently unveiled the National Institute for Security Studies, a welcome upgrade and refocusing of its existing training academy.
The family members and associates of the detained ex-NSA are eagerly awaiting his release after four years in the custody of the Department of State Services
The meeting, which holds quarterly, is being hosted by the Ekiti State Government
The group, an amalgamation of all sociocultural and self-determination groups in Yorubaland, had converged to discuss insecurity in the land, an event which they also want to use to celebrate the June 12 in the city