Tag: State Security Service

“We can’t keep quiet. If we do, there will be more clampdown. The current National Assembly and the executive are ...

Mr Sowore was arrested by the SSS and was being prosecuted by the Nigerian government.

Throughout Senate plenary on Tuesday, no issue concerning the court invasion was discussed.

Amnesty International says it supports the call for the immediate release of all unlawfully-held detainees.

Two U.S. lawmakers also expressed their concern about Mr Sowore's arrest.

The NUJ in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES by its spokesperson, Usman Leman, condemned the SSS actions.

A Nigerian lawyer says ''it is hard to criticise the government when one is part of governance.''

Mr Menendez is the ranking member (most senior Democrat) of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee if the United States.

Just after being praised by the judge for obeying the court order, the SSS deployed brute force, invaded the court ...

"I apologize for underestimating the DSS capacity for the unthinkable," Mr Soyinka said.

"They promised that I will not walk out of their detention alive and that is what they have come to ...

The political activist was arrested on August 3.

The group said it will monitor Mr Sowore’s upcoming hearing slated for December 5.

The lawyer says the SSS has adduced three contradictory reasons for not complying with the order of the federal high ...

The secret police's headquarters was on Tuesday besieged by protesters seeking immediate release of Yele Sowore from illegal detention.

The defendant's lawyer says after the judge had signed Mr Sowore's release warrant, the SSS informed them they had closed ...

The number is the highest since 2015.

The Sahara Reporters publisher is returned to court for alleged "treasonable felony."

Mr Sowore is arraigned on charges of fraud, treasonable felony and cyberstalking by the Nigerian government.

Sowore was arrested on August 3 for planning the #RevolutionNow protest.

Chido Onumah was arrested by the State Security Service, SSS, at the Abuja airport on Sunday evening.

Mr Onumah, author of We Are All Biafrans, is a regular columnist and is an editorial board member of PREMIUM ...

Mr Sowore's lawyers tried this time to serve the SSS through a court bailiff, but were turned down.

"We submitted his passports, got the affidavit of compliance and I personally served them," Mr Falana said.

"Mr. Sowore is a world-renowned journalist. He has pioneered new and important avenues in the field of investigative journalism."