LAGOS — Mamudu Hassan, one of the accused persons standing trial over unlawful importation of 661 sophisticated pump action rifles into the country last December, yesterday told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that he paid a sum of N1 million to officials of the Department of State Security, DSS, and other security agencies to smuggle the guns out of Apapa Ports.

lagos—Head of Investigation, Department of State Security, DSS, Lagos Command and a witness in the ongoing trial before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, of four men, who allegedly smuggled 661 sophisticated pump action rifles into Nigeria last January, Mr. Wale Odu, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the suspect made statements without any coercion, threat or inducement.

Two weeks after their arrest in Abuja, Cameroonian separatists have alleged that they have been denied access to their lawyer and family members.

PRESIDENT of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke has warned vice chancellors, Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the DSS to desist from harassing their members, adding that no amount of intimidation would take them back to their duty posts unless their earned allowances are paid.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has on Friday in Abuja said that the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, is not dead, contrary to rumours.