The Service said the cells are being formed to enable the dreaded sect conduct surveillance activities prior to striking in the country’s capital
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The funeral prayer was led by the Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, after the Arba’een commemoration with an estimated 17 million people in attendance
Dasuki, who was moved from his house on Tuesday where he had been under house arrest to the office of the DSS, is being investigated for his alleged role in a $2.9 billion arms deal
The operatives were said to have arrived the home of Are at 50, Alexander Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos State at about 3pm, shooting sporadically into the air
The arms deal was allegedly struck during the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan
Dasuki had been placed under house arrest in his Abuja home since November 4, 2015 by the DSS
The engagement of the security agencies is also meant to assist in the monitoring of nationwide fuel truck-out to retail outlets
Lamorde has been accused of withholding over N1 trillion recovered by the EFCC from a former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, and the late Governor of Bayelsa State, Dipreye Alamieyeseigha
Abdullahi, number 26 of the list of terrorists declared wanted last month, was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services
Information available to The Eagle Online has it that as at 7pm on Friday, the operatives of the DSS were still at the residence in Abuja
Dasuki had approached the court to plead for the enforcement of its earlier order of November 3 that he could travel for three weeks to seek medical assistance for his ailment
In the suit, Dasuki, who has been placed under house arrest in the last one week by operatives of the Department of State Services, is seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights to dignity and security of his life
Dasuki is asking the court for a mandatory order compelling the Federal Government and its agents, especially operatives of the Department of State Services, to vacate his house located at 13, John Kadija Street, Asokoro, Abuja with immediate effect
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ladoja, the Accord Party governorship candidate, had challenged the declaration of Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the April 11 election
According to Abdullahi Garba, who addressed the press on behalf of the DSS, the suspects were picked up in Lokoja, Kogi State
The statement by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said: “MURIC reminds the SSS that journalists have duties to perform in the same way that security operatives have works to do
A report by THISDAY had it that the vandals had already vandalised one of the pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in the area and were siphoning fuel when the DSS operatives stormed the scene
Ibrahim-Jimoh’s release came almost three months after Justice Folake Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, declared the continuous incarceration of the cleric as “unconstitutional, illegal and abuse of human rights”
“It is unfortunate that this is happening under President Buhari’s watch, and painful that Alhaji Lawal Daura is drawing Nigeria back to the Military era”
A statement on Monday by the Department of State Services, which arraigned Dasuki, however, did not state where the arraignment took place