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The Department of State Services has called on Nigerians to disregard threat of revolution by Omoyele Sowore.

The Department of State Services has shunned enquiry over the “abduction” of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general elections in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore.

The Department of State Services cannot be accused of being fair-handed and unprejudiced. It has always been the political police of the existing regime. I recall in 2014 when agents of the service invaded the offices of the All Progressives Congress in search of incriminating materials, hounded the staff of the party and made a spectacle of them for droll offences, the agency was serving the Peoples Democratic Party government at the time. Now it is serving another regime. The same pattern, the same objective, the same repression, the same pursuit.

The Department of State Services says its attention has been drawn to activities of some unscrupulous elements cloning official websites of some government agencies and using same to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians.

The PDP in a statement on Tuesday said Oshiomhole, who is battling calls for his ouster by the members of his party over allegations of corruption and malfeasance in his handling of their party, is in no position to cast aspersions or pontificate to the PDP on “our lawful internal activities and relationship with our elected public officials”.

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf gave the order when Dusuki failed to appear for his trial.

Out of the 67 Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies that were assessed, the websites of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, Office of the National Security Adviser and the Department of State Services were ranked lowest in the 2018 MDAs Websites’ Ranking.

The Department of State Services has confirmed the arrest of the Principal Medical Director of Fufore Cottage Hospital in Adamawa, Ibrahim Mustapha, for operating with fake medical certificate.

A tailor, Hadiza Usman, on Wednesday dragged the Director-General of the Department of State Service and his wife, Y.B. Magaji and the DSS FCT Director before the FCT High Court Apo, over alleged threat to life.

With a few days to the start of the 22nd edition of Dubai Summer Surprises, Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment has announced the highlights of this year’s exciting and fun-filled programme.

The Department of State Services said it has observed with concern the deliberate plots and attempts by some subversive and undemocratic elements to incite or pit one ethnic group against the other by stoking the embers of tribal sentiments to cause disaffection and violence across the country. 

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly, operatives of the Department of State Services and the Police among other security agencies have arrived at the National Assembly Complex in their hundreds.

The former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime, Farouk Lawan, facing alleged $3million fuel subsidy bribe, on Monday hinted that he would file a no-case submission in an FCT High Court, Apo.

The Cross River Universal Basic Education Board says it has uncovered an alleged attempt by a fraudster to defraud it of N1.3 billion from UBE Matching Grant.

A popular Katsina State-based Islamic cleric, Mallam Aminu Usman, popularly called Abu Ammar, who was recently detained and released by the Department of State Services has vowed not to stop preaching to political leaders to offer good leadership as mandated by the Holy Quran and prophetic traditions of Islam.

The trial of Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser, again could not take place on Friday, owing to his absence.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, the Department of State Services and other anti-corruption agencies involved in the probe of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, that they cannot probe him.

The Department of State Services has denied that it indicted the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, who is also the Chairman, Presidential Election Tribunal, for bribery and corruption.

Fifty-nine commercial sex workers have been arrested by the Department of State Security in Calabar, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The Director-General, Department of Security Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, has underscored the paramount importance of effective collaboration and mutual synergy among security agencies.