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HOW PAST AND PRESENT NIGER DELTA GOVS. DEPLOY SPYING DEVICES TO MONITOR ITS CITIZENS – Premium Times investigation

June 30, 2017 Kelvin AmurunLeave a Comment

Two years after PREMIUM TIMES revealed that four South-South states were running illegal surveillance programmes to intrude into privacy of their residents and target opposition, latest findings by this newspaper suggest that the states have not backed down on the controversial operation. Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States were named in the 2015 investigation that uncovered […]

Nigeria under state of emergency as DSS invades judges residences in Rivers, Abuja, threatens to kill Gov. Wike

October 8, 2016 Kelvin AmurunLeave a Comment

Nigeria maybe under state of emergency as Department of State Services (DSS) operatives and policemen invades judges residence in Rivers, Abuja while some cocked their rifles and threatened to shoot the Governor Nyesom Wike The illegal siege on Rivers State by Federal security agencies continued unabated during the early hours of Saturday as hundreds of […]

BREAKDOWN OF FEDERAL ALLOCATION FOR JULY: Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom and Kano got highest allocations

July 23, 2016 Kelvin AmurunLeave a Comment

Thirty-six states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, collectively smiled home in the month of July when they pocketed a whopping #673.324billion as their share of statutory allocation and first tranche of the excess crude earnings distribution for the period. This was revealed in a document from the office of the Accountant-General […]

DSS DG Lawal Daura Denies Collecting N4bn From PDP to influence Supreme Court judgement In Rivers, others

February 27, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

The Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, has denied the allegation that he collected N4bn from the Peoples Democratic Party’s governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia and Taraba states to influence the judgment of the Supreme Court in their favour in the recently decided electoral cases by the apex court. He said […]