Court orders DSS to move El-Zakzaky to Kaduna Correctional Centre
A High Court on Thursday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to transfer the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zinat,…
Sowore: Obey Nigerian courts like you obey British courts – Falana tells FG
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has asked the Federal Government to start complying with Nigerian Court injunctions the same way it…
Release Sowore, Bakare or risk going to jail – Court tells DG SSS
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja has threatened to jail the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Yusuf Bichi. This is in response to the…
Sowore: SERAP petitions African Commission over ‘harassment of sureties, Falana’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mrs Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the commission’s members…
Sowore, Bakare sue DSS, demand N500m compensation each
Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-detainee, Olawale Bakare, have each filed a suit of N500million before the Federal High Court in Abuja against the Director-General of the…
DSS says those who came for Sowore’s release were protesters, insists administrative procedures must be followed
Omoyele Sowore The Department of State Service, DSS has defended the continued detention of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protests, Mr Omoyele Sowore. Addressing a news conference in Abuja…
Hate speech Bill: Propose death penalty for corrupt politicians -Falana tells NASS
Femi Falana Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has asked the National Assembly to make laws that will pronounce death penalty for corruption perpetrated by politically exposed persons….
Falana berates DSS for saying Dasuki, El- Zakzakky, others freely chose to remain in their custody
Human Rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has berated the Department of State Services for saying that a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), the leader of the Islamic…
DSS denies opening fire on supporters of Sowore
Nigeria’s state security agency on Wednesday denied that its officers opened fire on campaigners calling for the release of the former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore who remains in…
DSS Disperses protesters demanding Sowore’s release
Officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) have dispersed protesters who stormed the headquarters of the service over the continued detention of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele…