LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The DSS has denied arresting the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, after its officials escorted him to the Conference Center inside the State House Abuja, to be interviewed by a Presidential Panel constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to grill him on corruption allegations. The…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) over allegations that he owns four properties and that he was allegedly transferring funds abroad through a third party. Mr. Magu was taken to the Presidential Villa by security officials…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Government says there is evidence that Nigerian security agents, including the Department of State Services and the Nigerian Army, intimidated voters, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission and even election observers during the 2019 general elections. According to the US, this fuelled the impression that the Nigerian Army…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Muhammadu Sanusi has accused operatives of the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services and others of manhandling him in the process of his leaving the palace and taking him to Nasarawa State after his dethronement by the Kano State Government on Monday. Sanusi levelled the allegations in an affidavit sworn to by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian Police and Department of State Service (DSS) to fish out brains behind publications alleging of plots to send former Governor Gabriel Suswam to jail. An online report had claimed that…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hours after its inauguration, the Northern Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN), on Thursday, January 8, has kicked against the formation of ‘Operation Amotekun’ in the southwest zone of the country. Daily Trust reports that the national president of NYCN, Isah Abubakar, in a statement issued in Kaduna, urged President Muhammadu Buhari, not…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services has finally complied with the court orders directing it to release the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, from custody. Omoyele’s release came a few hours after the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said in a statement on Tuesday that…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), says he has directed the Department of State Services to release the immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki; and #RevolutionNow protest convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from custody. As of the time of filing this report on Tuesday, our Correspondent…
