LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) and the London Metropolitan Police Service have received petitions to investigate the documents said to have been obtained from Cambridge University and tendered for President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential election tribunal. TheCable obtained copies of the separate petitions both dated August 14, 2019, and which…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Thursday expressed concern over the order for the detention of Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), for 45 days. The Department of State Security (DSS) had secured the order from a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja about six days…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday released leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, following the order of Kaduna High Court. The court had ruled that the cleric and his wife be allowed to travel to India for medical attention. Public Relations Officer of DSS,…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has expressed happiness over the fact that the RevolutionNow protests took place in parts of the country. Sowore, who has refused to eat meals given to him all along by the secret police, expressed gratitude to Nigerians and the international community for their support, urging them to…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested Dan-Halilu, a former Politics Editor at Daily Trust newspaper, for endorsing the #RevolutionNow protest. Dan-Halilu was picked up in his room after writing a post on his Facebook timeline, endorsing the protest. Dan-Halilu was a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu before the 2015…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) has moved Omoyele Sowore, human rights campaigner, from its facility in Lagos to Abuja. Sources at the DSS said Sowore, who has been held incommunicado since Saturday, is currently being detained in Abuja. Although the secret police is yet to make any comment on his arrest,…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State Security Service on Wednesday announced a nationwide crackdown on individuals allegedly caught posting inciting materials on the Internet, in a move that could provoke fresh debates about the potency of Nigerian Constitution’s free speech safeguards. The SSS said it had recently observed that some social media users were skewing Nigeria’s…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other agencies involved in the probe of Senate President Bukola Saraki over corruption allegations. Saraki on Friday filed two separate fundamental rights enforcement suits before the court to challenge the decision of the EFCC to seize…
