DSS ISSUES STATEMENT REGARDING SAMBO DASUKI.,

Note: This statement by DSS is a response to alleged siege of residence of Ex- NSA Sambo Dasuki by security operative today. 

DSS PRESS RELEASE

1. The attention of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been brought to the report making rounds that its operatives illegally blocked the residence of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo DASUKI (Col/Rtd), in violation of a subsisting court order granting him a relief to travel oversea for medical services. This is to say the least that such report is not only unfounded and malicious but aimed at tarnishing the good image of the Service. 

(HIGHLIGHTS) NIGERIA 4 MEXICO 2. #FIFAU17WC.

NIG 4 MEX 2

(HIGHLIGHTS) Mali 3 Belgium 1. #FIFAU17WC.

MALI 3 BELGIUM 1

(HIGHLIGHTS) Real Madrid 1 PSG 0.

R. MADRID 1 PSG 0.

(HIGHLIGHTS) Manchester United 1 CSKA Moscow 0.

Man U    1  CSKA 0.

DAVID MARK'S UNGOLDEN SILENCE.

SIR: Reports have it that over half a million persons are living with the dreaded HIV/AIDS in Benue State. This figure keeps rising by the day and sees Benue sit right at the top with the most endemic states a la HIV in Nigeria. What this portends for the state is better imagined. A commissioner from the state once stated that the virus was having a great effect on their state from farming to education et al, what with the impact on the human resources.

In March of this year, Nigerians decided that they were done with the ineptitude and insensitivity of the PDP since the inception of this democracy in 1999 and collectively decided to show them the door. This led to massive changes at the helm, from the Presidency to the two legislative arms of government which meant new faces/party at the helm of these hallowed chambers.

MORE TROUBLE FOR EX-NSA SAMBO DASUKI.

There is no respite yet for former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki, despite being granted leave to travel out for treatment by a Federal High Court.

Security yesterday invited him for questioning over “fresh security matters” shortly after he left court.

But he told them to approach the court if there is any fresh allegation or security issue against him.

PRESIDENT BUHARI TO DECLARE TWO DAY RETREAT FOR MINISTERS TODAY.

President Mohammadu Buhari is expected to declare open a two day retreat for the confirmed ministerial nominees later this morning.

The retreat which would run from today through Friday would hold at the presidential villa in Abuja.

Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina confirmed the development late last night.

“The retreat would open to moor in the villa”, he said.

It is believed that the exercise would herald the inauguration of the ministers

ARREST AND CONTINUOUS DETENTION OF RADIO BIAFRA BOSS IS SHAPING MIND OF ACTIVIST - MASSOB THREATENS.

Reactions have continued to trail the arrest and detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra which has been broadcasting and hyping the struggle for the emergence of a Republic of Biafra from the Eastern part of Nigeria, a struggle being championed by the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra [MASSOB] and Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The Federal Government has for long without success been trying to nail the radio station and the promoters.

Members of the MASSOB and IPOB were die-hard listeners of the radio station and adore those behind its operation.

MAN KILLS GIRLFRIEND IN IMO FOR REFUSING MARRIAGE PROPOSAL.

One Miss Onyinyechi Okegbulam of Egbu in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State has allegedly been killed by her boyfriend for refusing his marriage proposal.

A source, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, said that the girl was shot in the head at close range by her supposed boyfriend in the village.

The source recalled that the deceased was, last Saturday, lured out of her family home by the boyfriend at about 7p.m.

FIVE OFFICERS OF @POLICENG ARRESTED FOR TORTURING JOURNALIST AND OTHERS.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five policemen attached to the anti-robbery section of the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, over the abduction and torture of a journalist, Femi Owolabi, and others.

It was earlier reported on Monday that Owolabi and about 30 others were abducted by the policemen who embarked on an illegal raid near a night club in the FESTAC area of the state. The victims were conveyed in three blue buses to the SDCI and tortured for several hours.

The report subsequently drew the ire of human rights activists who demanded the prosecution of the culprits.

POPULAR EBEANO SUPERMARKET AT LEKKI PHASE-1 IS ON FIRE...

The biggest supermarket in Lekki Phase 1 along Admiralty road is on fire...

WHAT HAPPENED TO DELE GIWA???????

October 19 marked the 29th anniversary the assassination of Dele Giwa, crusading journalist and founding chief executive of the magazine Newswatch, in what remains one of the most horrific acts of preternatural malevolence ever carried out in Nigeria.

Because of the passage of time and the twists and turns on the political landscape, the anniversary generated less attention and fewer reminiscences than in previous years.  But      three weeks later, the circumstances of Giwa’s death leapt onto the front pages and headlines, propelled by a crack-brained theory resurrected by Chris Omeben, the since-retired deputy inspector- general of police who had supervised the investigations.

COURT FIX NOV 10 TO RULE ON NDLEA VS KASHAMU.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 10, 2015 to rule on an application by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seeking to reverse an order preventing the agency from seizing Mr. Buruji Kashamu’s property.

The ruling was adjourned on Tuesday as the presiding judge in the case, Justice Ibrahim Buba, did not sit.

Kashamu, whose election into the Senate was recently nullified at the tribunal, had on  June 29, 2015 obtained the restraining order from Justice Buba.

NCC RENEWS MTN'S LICENCE TILL 2021 FOR $94M.

South Africa’s MTN on Tuesday said the Nigerian regulator had renewed its operations and licence up to 2021 at a cost of 94.2 million dollars .

MTN said that it received confirmation from the regulator that its operating spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands had been renewed.

There were media reports recently that MTN had a 5.2 billion dollars’ fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for failing to deregister SIM cards in its largest market.

EFCC DECLARES FORMER CHAIRMAN OF PENSION REFORM TASK TEAM ALDULRASHEED MAINA WANTED FOR 2BN FRAUD.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, declared Mr. Abdulrsheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, wanted.

The commission, in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said Maina  was wanted for his role in the fraudulent biometric contracts through which himself and former Head of Service, Steve Oronsaye, and two others allegedly stole over N2 billion of pension funds.

Maina was on July 21, 2015 charged alongside Oronsaye, Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretense.

ELECTION TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS OKEZIE IKPEAZU'S ELECTION AS GOVERNOR OF ABIA STATE.

The Abia State Governorship Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, on Tuesday, upheld Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who was candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the April 11 Governorship election in the State as winner of the election.

The tribunal dismissed the petition of candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Alex Otti.

TIMIPRE SYLVA'S LONELY WALK AHEAD OF GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION AS 6 GOVERNORS AND ALAIBE BOYCOTT INAUGURATION OF CAMPAIGN COUNCIL.

Signs that the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, is walking on a lonely path ahead of December 5 governorship election became glaring yesterday when six out of seven governors slated for the inauguration of his campaign council failed to turn up for the ceremony.

It will be recalled that Sylva’s emergence as the governorship candidate became controversial after the first primary election was marred by violence.

His closest rival in the election, Mr. Timi Alaibe, who was a member of the campaign council, was absent just as the APC deputy national publicity secretary and   Bayelsa indigene, Timi Frank, rejected his membership.

CAF RELEASES 10-MAN SHORTLIST FOR AFRICAN FOOTBALLER WITHOUT ANY NIGERIAN MAKING THE LIST.

The Confederation of African Football has released a shortlist of the 10 players still in the race for the 2015 Glo/CAF African Player of the Year award with no Nigerian player on the list.

Former Super Eagles captain Vincent Enyema and the new captain Ahmed Musa, who were on the 37-man list, dropped off when CAF released the top-10 names on Monday. The stark implication is that a Nigerian cannot win the most prestigious individual award for African players across the world.

Another former Eagles captain, Nwankwo Kanu, who was voted the African Player of the Year in 1999, stands as the last Nigerian to have won the title. Since then, the best Nigerians have achieved is finishing within the top three. Mikel Obi was the runner-up to Yaya Toure in 2013.

FEDERAL HIGH COURT ORDERS THE RELEASE OF DASUKI'S TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the release of international passport of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col.  Sambo Dasuki‎ (SAN), to enable him travel to London, the United Kingdom, for three weeks on health grounds.

Dasuki is facing five counts of illegal arms possession and money laundering involving about N84.6m, but the prosecution said on Monday that there was possibility of preferring additional charges against him.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola, while granting Dasuki’s request for his passport in a ruling on Tuesday, dismissed the objection by the Federal Government which argued among other grounds that the cancer ailment which the  ex-NSA‎ sought to treat abroad could be treated in Nigeria.