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THE Department of State Services, DSS has arrested and detained the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in charge of Financial System Stability, Aisha Ahmad, over the alleged fraudulent acquisition of shares in Polaris Bank, Titan Bank/Union Bank. The CBN Deputy Governor is currently being interrogated on how …

Reports emerged that the State Security Service (SSS) has reportedly arrested Mr. Kingsley Obiora, the deputy governor responsible for economic policy at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Obiora has been in custody for four consecutive nights and has been subjected to intensive questioning by the SSS.   This publication …

A public interest lawyer, Maxwell Okpara, has vowed to file a N20 billion suit against Twitter to be joined by the Department of State Services, DSS, for the service’s tweet describing him as an “overzealous and uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer. The lawyer also said he has written to Twitter, known as …

DSS operatives arrive as protesters storm Lagos Assembly  

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain suspended Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele for 14 more days. Justice Hamza Muazu said that the Magistrate Court, not the High Court, has the exclusive right to grant detention orders under …

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has decried Tuesday’s attack on officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos. DSS operatives had assualted some officials of the NCS over disagreement about which agency …

A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has urged President Bola Tinubu to curb the excesses of the Department of State Services, DSS Fayose said operatives of the DSS involved in the fight with their counterpart from the Nigeria Correctional Services after the arraignment of former Governor of the …

Some Nigerians have knocked the Federal Government and the Department of State Services (DSS) for rearresting the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Goodwin Emefiele after the court granted him bail. The growing outrage following the violent clash between the officials of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) and …

THE Concerned Northern Forum has decried the continued detention of Sarkin Hausawan, Lagos, Alhaji Aminu Yaro, over his alleged connection to former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Services, DSS. The forum described the detention as a violation of human rights and disrespect …

A consortium of constitutional and human right lawyers have commence committal proceedings against Director General of the State Security Service (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), for allegedly violating multiple judgments and orders of court directing the release of suspended Central Bank …