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Guns and 592 rounds of ammunition have been recovered by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the army in a sting operation in Ebonyi state. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the arms were recovered at Effium, a town in Ohaukwu local…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has once again raised alarm over plans by some elements to incite ethnic and religious violence across the country. Dr Peter Afunanya, the Public Relations Officer, DSS National Headquarters, Abuja,…

A police officer attached to the Osun State police command, Corporal Fawale Rauf, has been beaten to death by officials of the State Security Service (SSS) in the state. The deceased who was serving at the Dada Estate Police Station,…

Bukola Samuel-Wemimo, a journalist with an independent broadcast station, Television Continental (TVC) in Lagos on Wednesday, December 30, was allegedly detained unlawfully by Nigeria’s secret police known as the Department of State…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has uncovered a plot by some suspected criminals to bomb selected public places in the country during the yuletide period. In a statement issued on Tuesday by DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, the…

One of the alleged leaders of #EndSARS protest in Osun state identified as Emmanuel Adebayo a.k.a “Captain”, has been arrested by operatives of the Directorate of State Service (DSS). He was arrested on Thursday morning, December 10,…

Anyim Pius Anyim, a former Senate President is claiming that there is a plot to kill him for not defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Anyim who petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari,…

The State Security Service, SSS, has confirmed that its personnel attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, was the one suspected for killing a newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke, in Abuja. The service,…

House of Reps Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has revealed the identity of the security officer who shot an Abuja vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke dead on Thursday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja. The Speaker who made this known in a statement on…

The Coalition Against Fake Activists (CAFA) has rubbished alarm of arrest raised by Omoyele Sowore, describing the Sahara Reporters publisher as "depressed, plotting to commit suicide". CAFA demanded that Sowore be urgently placed under…

A member of Delta State Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate allegations of police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the Delta state, Harrison Gwamnishu, has called out the Police and DSS for allegedly arresting #EndSars…

10 people suspected to be hoodlums on Thursday have been arrested by police operatives for allegedly participating in the vandalization, looting and burning of public and private properties during the #EndSARS protest in Uyo. According…

The Department of State Services in Nigeria has opened up on the alleged sponsor of thugs to attack the peaceful #EndSars protests. Within Nigeria recalls that few hours ago, video of thugs coming down from a luxury jeep surfaced on the…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the organisers of the protest against “insecurity and bad governance”. In a statement on Saturday, Abdulazeez Suleiman, spokesman of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), said the…

An officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps operative (NSCDC) who allegedly shot an operative of the State Security Service (SSS), Seyi Adebowale in Osun State have been apprehended. WITHIN NIGERIA recall how the incident…

An operative of the Department of State Services (DSS), identified as Seyi Adebowale, was allegedly shot dead by one Sunday Dada, an official of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). According to report, the incident happened…

Barely two weeks after an operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) was killed in Katsina, another agent of the secret service identified as Barrister Muktar Modibbo has been killed in Plateau State during a shoot-out with arms…

The Department of State Services has summoned a journalist in Plateau State, Masara Kim, for questioning over a report exposing potential attacks in some farming communities by herdsmen. Kim is expected to appear at the DSS office in Jos…

Proceeds of crimes that are currently being managed by EFCC, other anti-graft agencies and Department of State Services (DSS) will now be managed by a new anti-corruption agency that has been approved by Federal Executive Council (FEC).…

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has received a third invitation from the Department of State Security (DSS) in less than two months. He was asked to appear on Monday, September 14 by…