LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight of the 12 aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, have regained their freedom after spending 61 arduous days in the custody of the Department of State Services. DSS released the eight detainees on Monday, While their lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi, confirmed to our correspondent. However the DSS refused to release four…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS: The Department of State Services (DSS), has denied dispersing doctors attending a Saudi Arabia-organised job interview at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Thursday. The spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, made the denial in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, August 27. Afunanya said the denial became necessary…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dear Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, without efforts to join issues with you on an opinion expressed by you in your article of 5th August, 2021 on the above subject matter, the SSS takes exceptions to the part that states that “Hundreds of innocent citizens are currently languishing in Police and State Security Services…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Ladiean Akintola of Oyo High Court has granted an ex-parte motion restraining the Department of State Security (DSS) and Attorney General of the Federation from arresting, intimidating, harassing, and blocking bank accounts of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. The order was granted following an ex-parte motion moved by his lawyer…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services gave “logistics difficulties” for not producing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in court on Monday, a member of the IPOB leader’s legal team, Aloy Ejimakor, has said. The lawyer stated this in a chat with The PUNCH on Monday. The PUNCH…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The embattled Yoruba nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a. Igboho yesterday made good his threat to sue the federal authorities over the July 2 raid of his Sooka, Ibadan residence by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS). Igboho filed a suit at the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, against the DSS…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The children of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola have urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to intervene in the protracted feud between them and some unnamed members of the family on allegations of withholding the assets left to them by their late father, Chief Moshood Abiola. Their petition was contained…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ilana Omo Oodua has said it is assembling senior Yoruba lawyers to ensure the release of aides of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, arrested during the raid by the Department of State Services on the activist’s house. Igboho, who is a promoter of the Yoruba Nation, has gone underground following…
