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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The National Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Advisor, says at least 5,000 repented Boko Haram fighters have been reunited with their families. It says none of the ex-combatants returned to the battle ground after six months of the deradicalisation programme. 2.…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, again adjourned a fresh N1billion suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Federal Government until March 18 this year for hearing. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had, on January 8, reported that Justice James Omotosho fixed the…
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On Tuesday, the Edo State command of the Department of State Services (DSS) assaulted Douglas Ogbankwa Esq., a Benin-based legal practitioner. The agency’s officials assaulted the lawyer after he insisted that they should not interview one of his clients in his absence. Ogbankwa told FIJ that his client had been invited by the DSS over an alleged…
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A legal practitioner, Mr Maxwell Opara, has filed a defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the Department of State Services (DSS). In the writ of summons marked: FCT/HC/CV/7186/23 and filed at the FCT High Court by Malachy Nwaekpe, Opara listed Twitter Nigeria Limited and Director-General (DG) of State Security Service (also…
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has released Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to undergo an independent medical examination. Kanu’s lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said the IPOB leader underwent a medical examination in an unnamed hospital in Abuja on Friday. According to a statement by Ejiofor: “We are pleased to…
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Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the Department of State Services, DSS, to apologise to Nigerians over the case of Godwin Emefiele, suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Ezekwesili said DSS took Nigerians for a ride over the charges leveled against Emefiele. She wondered why the secret police would…
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The Department of State Services, DSS, has said the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele is currently not under its custody. Reports of Emefiele’s arrest had emerged shortly after he was suspended by President Bola Tinubu Emefiele was suspended “sequel to the ongoing investigation of his office and the planned…
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