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The Paradox of Glorious Hoodlums in the Remaking of Buhari Presidency

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: DSS, George W. Bush, Occupy politics, Robert CoxNo CommentsViews:
The Paradox of Glorious Hoodlums in the Remaking of Buhari Presidency

This is a time to be reasonable in Nigeria, a time to be patriotic, to beware of anarchists and sponsors of insurrection. Who would choose to be unreasonable and suffer for it when former He... Read more

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Danger Signals from the Malami – Magu Movie

Posted By: adminon: July 08, 2020In: People in ActionTags: DSS, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:
Danger Signals from the Malami – Magu Movie

A fast rolling movie is on in Nigeria, very entertaining but embodying unsettling signals. Intervention attempts an interim list of the plausible signals, conceding only one positive element... Read more

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Nigeria’s DSS Draws Zero Rating Over Sowore

Posted By: adminon: December 06, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: #RevolutionNow, DSS, Gen Sani Abacha, Omoyele SoworeNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s DSS Draws Zero Rating Over Sowore

Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS) remains the all time subject of analysis in the public sphere for turning security into a stage performance in trying to re-arrest Omoyele Sowo... Read more

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Can the DSS Calm Down?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: 'War of All Against All', CIA, DSS, Gen Yakubu Gowon2 CommentsViews:
Can the DSS Calm Down?

Is it possible that the DSS might also be insensitive to its own institutional image as to get involved in the turbulent politics of meaning? It is true that, at the end of the day, intellig... Read more

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OPAN, Prof Odion-Akhaine Join Call for Release of Sowore, Protesters-Police Clashes Reported

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: DSS, LASU, OPANNo CommentsViews:
OPAN, Prof Odion-Akhaine Join Call for Release of Sowore, Protesters-Police Clashes Reported

The call for release of detained publisher of Sahara Reporters and a former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore is growing. Sowore was arrested yesterday and is being held for what the De... Read more

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Leave Prof. Okey Ibeanu and Kinsmen Alone – Leading Nigerian CSOs  

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2019In: SpectacleTags: #INECIbeanuMustGo, Atiku Campaign Organisation, DSSNo CommentsViews:
Leave Prof. Okey Ibeanu and Kinsmen Alone – Leading Nigerian CSOs  

Leaders of key civil society organisations in Nigeria have taken a tough position against what they perceive as ethnic stereotyping of selected individuals as to make them the fall guys of t... Read more

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Fragile Peace Over Deputy-Governorship Selection in Plateau PDP

Posted By: adminon: November 12, 2018In: SpectacleTags: DSS, ITF, MTNNo CommentsViews:
Fragile Peace Over Deputy-Governorship Selection in Plateau PDP

The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) in Plateau State is, typical of opposition everywhere, desirous of taking over power from the All Progressives Congress, (APC), the ruling party in the m... Read more

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Nigerian CSOs Decry 2019 Election Budget

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2018In: SpectacleTags: APC, CSOs, DSS, INEC, MDSs, NEITI, PIGBNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian CSOs Decry 2019 Election Budget

The murmuring against committing the huge sum of N242 Billion to conducting the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria has, at last, gotten the ears of the civil society in the country. A coaliti... Read more

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DSS in the Complicated World of Intelligence

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2018In: GovernanceTags: CIA, DSS, NSO, SOCMINT, SSSNo CommentsViews:
DSS in the Complicated World of Intelligence

It is bad times for spy agencies across the world, including Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS). The DSS’s hassles at home are coming at a time of multiple challenges for that re... Read more

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Lawan Daura: Face Saving Measure or the Start of Self-Cleansing?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2018In: GovernanceTags: DSS, EFCC, NASSNo CommentsViews:
Lawan Daura: Face Saving Measure or the Start of Self-Cleansing?

Alhaji Lawan Daura, the Director General of Nigeria’s domestic spy agency, has been sacked. It cannot but be in connection with the wonderland performance that greeted Nigerians as they woke... Read more

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