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 were forwarded by Kalu Kalu Agu, a Nigerian lawyer.Abba [...]
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Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), is back in the country.He arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 11:40am but operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) prevented journalists and some of his supporters from having access to him.TheCable gathered that immediately the Ethiopian Airlines flight conveying El-Zakzaky and Zeenat, his wife, touched [...]
Abubakar Idris, social media personality better known as Abu Hanifa Dadiyata, has been missing since on Friday, August 2.It is believed that he was abducted by heavily armed men at about midnight while driving into his residence at Barnawa in Kaduna state.While his whereabouts remain a mystery, there have been claims that Dadiyata was whisked away by operatives of the Department of State [...]
Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), was spotted on board an Emirates aircraft to India on Monday evening.The sheikh, who wore a nose mask, occupied a first-class seat.He and his wife, Zeenat, departed Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, alongside some family members and security operatives.TheCable understands that officials of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and Department [...]
Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 elections, has asked a federal high court in Abuja to set aside the order granting approval to the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain him for 45 days. In a 19-ground application filed through Femi Falana, his lawyer , Sowore said the order to detain him breached [...]
The federal high court in Abuja has approved an application filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain Omoyele Sowore, ex-presidential candidate, for 45 days.Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, was arrested on Saturday ahead of the #RevolutionNow protest.The DSS had accused him of threatening public peace and safety with his planned nationwide protest.The security agency had on Tuesday also [...]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the release of Omoyele Sowore, ex-presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), and 26 other persons arrested on account of the #RevolutionNow protest.The Department of State Services (DSS) arrested Sowore over his call for a protest against bad governance in Nigeria.Some Nigerians, who had converged on public places on Monday to stage [...]
Adewale Martins, Catholic Archbishop of Lagos diocese, says the #RevolutionNow protest should be a wake-up call for President Muhammadu Buhari.In a statement on Wednesday, the archbishop urged the federal government to see the agitation as an opportunity to hear the complaints of Nigerians.He said clamping down on the protesters would not solve the country's problems.“Except urgent and concrete measures are [...]
The Kaduna state government says Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), must not seek asylum in India.In a statement signed by Samuel Aruwan, commissioner for internal security and home affairs, the government of Kaduna which is currently prosecuting El-Zakzaky, said steps must be taken to ensure the IMN leader and Zeenah, his wife, do not become [...]
The Department of State Service (DSS) has filed an application before a federal high court in Abuja, seeking to detain Omoyele Sowore, convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, for 90 days.In an ex parte motion with number: FHC/ABJ/CS/915/19, G. O Agbadua, counsel to the DSS, told the court that the secret police needed the period to investigate Sowore.Agbadua told Taiwo Taiwo, [...]
Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the government will be making a mistake if it files charges against Omoyele Sowore.Sowore, who is the convener of #RevolutionNow movement, has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since Saturday.The DSS had accused him of threatening public peace and safety with his planned nationwide protest. But speaking at the [...]
The police staged a show of force on some major roads in Lagos state on Tuesday, with a view to check any forms of protest.Operatives of the Rapid Respond Squad, special anti-robbery squad, anti-terrorism, Department of State Security, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were seen parading the roads with sirens.Armed security agents were still stationed at the National Stadium, [...]
Members of the #TakeItBack movement say they have been allowed access to Omoyele Sowore, the movement's convener who has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since Saturay. Ahead of a planned nationwide #RevolutionNow protest, Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 elections, was picked by the secret police who accused him of "threatening [...]
SaharaReporters has released a CCTV footage of how Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 elections, was arrested.Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) picked him up in Lagos on Saturday and later transferred him to Abuja.He was arrested for spearheading a nationwide protest tagged #RevolutionNow. Peter Afunaya, spokesman of the secret police, [...]
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has asked residents of the state not to participate in the #RevolutionNow protest.Wike gave the directive in a statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, his special assistant on electronic media.The governor asked the security agencies in the state to take all necessary steps in prosecuting those who stage the protest in the state.He said the state does [...]
Members of the #RevolutionNow movement who converged on the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, on Monday, were forcefully dispersed by soldiers and policemen.The protesters, who arrived at the stadium around 7am on Monday, for the kick-off of the protest met a detachment of policemen at the entrance of the stadium.Some soldiers later joined the policemen.Eliaz Ozikpu, one of the protesters told [...]
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