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A former Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), now known as the Department of State Services (DSS), Chief Albert Horsefall, has died at the age of 84.

Ajayi said the directive was part of reforms introduced under his leadership to reposition the Service, strengthen respect for the rule of law and improve its human rights record.

The decision, according to a source familiar with the matter, is aimed at ensuring that Sowore is able to participate fully in the electioneering process without the pending court proceedings constituting an impediment to his political activities.

The Department of State Services has alerted the Sokoto State Government to intelligence indicating that terrorist and bandit groups are shifting their targets from vulnerable primary and secondary schools to universities. The intelligence warning said the planned attacks...

DSS asks Federal High Court to foreclose Omoyele Sowore's defence, accusing him of deliberately frustrating his criminal trial through repeated delays. Proceedings descend into a heated exchange between senior lawyers for the prosecution and defence over an adjournment...

Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, personally appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja to lead the Federal Government's prosecution in the high-profile criminal trial of activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore. Fagbemi urged the...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned until October 5 the trial of five men accused of concealing the whereabouts of former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, after proceedings could not commence because the court did not...

Retired DSS Director Dennis Amachree Claims He Personally Investigated General Sani Abacha's Death and Interrogated the Pharmacist Who Was With the Former Military Ruler in His Final Moments New Memoir Insists Abacha Died from a Coitus-Induced Cardiac Arrest,...

DSS vows to appeal the life sentences imposed on two convicted Ansaru commanders, insisting only the death penalty reflects the gravity of their crimes. Security agency links the convicts to the Oriire school abduction, alleging terrorists demanded their...

July 13, (THEWILL) — A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered a certain Yakubu Idris and 47 others to make themselves available to the Department of State Services (DSS), Lagos State Command within 45 days to clear themselves...