By Ozioruva Aliu A single mother Ms Odegua Okojie has dragged the Department State Services (DSS) to court for illegal detention and is demanding N300m as compensation for illegal detention. In a suit filed at the Federal High Court Benin, the applicant claimed that she was detained for nine days first at the outfit’s facility […]

Islamic State-aligned jihadists have released five local aid workers abducted last month in violence-wracked northeastern Nigeria, security sources and one of those freed said Thursday. The aid workers were seized along with other passengers in two separate incidents in December when fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) disguised as soldiers intercepted vehicles on […]

By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja Five aid workers abducted by the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP along the Monguno-Maiduguri Road, Borno State last year were Wednesday rescued by the Department of State Security, DSS. The rescue operation was carried out by the DSS in sync with other strategic partners. The rescued aid workers […]

Five aid workers abducted by ISWAP 22nd December 2019 along the Monguno-Maiduguri Road, Borno State were on Wednesday rescued by the DSS in conjunction with other strategic stakeholders/partners. READ ALSO: Killing of aid workers barbaric, against tenets of Islam – ACF The rescued aid workers include Jennifer Samuel Ukumbong of the Alliance for International Medical […]

Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano Justice Aminu Gabari of the Chief Magistrate Court,  Kano, on Tuesday granted bail to Kabiru Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the phantom marriage between President Muhammadu Buhari and two members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Muhammed had in October last year released a video of the purported marriage between the […]