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The Department of State Services (DSS) has taken its modus operandi, or mode of operation, as a secret service organisation to Nigerians for public enlightenment. The aim was to correct some media miscommunications, some legal misinterpretations, and some citizen misconceptions about the service. The DSS is an intelligence organisation that detects, prevents, and neutralises threats against Nigeria. Chronicle NG reports on the public address by Peter Afunanya, DSS PRO, on national concerns. THE DSS OPERATES WITHIN ITS MANDATE Recently, about five major newspapers called out the DSS for a bashing of sorts. The papers that used their platforms to express…

The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee were being searched by police, organisers said on Tuesday. The search was ordered by the French national financial prosecutor’s office, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told reporters. Olympics row deepens as 35 countries demand ban for Russia, Belarus “A search is currently under way at the headquarters of the organising committee,” Paris 2024 said in a statement. “Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their inquiries.” Paris 2024 did not give any further details. “We do not have anything else to share at the moment,”…

The operatives of the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) have killed two suspected gunmen said to be terrorising residents of the state. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Monday in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. The Ihiala LGA is a border town between Imo and Anambra states, and the hoodlums were said to have been terrorising members of the communities around the areas and also forcing them to comply with the Monday sit-at-home. According to sources in the area, the gunmen, numbering about 15, stormed the camp of the vigilante operatives, thinking…

Gunmen have kidnapped the Oba of Idofin, Shedrack Durojaiye Obibeni, and his wife in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi. They were kidnapped along Makutu-Idofin Road in Kogi State at about 5 p.m. on Monday, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria. Gunmen kill INEC staff, kidnap wife in Ebonyi Confirming the incident, Mr. Abdulrasak Asiru, Yagba East Local Government Council Chairman, described it as “very shocking” and “sad”. Asiru said that he was still in shock over the incident, which had not happened in the area for almost two years. “I, as the council chairman,…

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Gulf of California on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. 5.5m earthquake strikes Babuyan islands Mexico’s civil defence office confirmed that there were no immediate reports of damage in the areas where the quake was felt but recommended boats and the nearby coastal population take precautions due to possible currents in ports. The quake struck at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), EMSC said. Shortly after the quake occurred, the U.S. Tsunami Warning System said there was no tsunami danger for the U.S. West Coast, British Columbia, or Alaska. Small…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate dissolution of the governing boards of all federal government parastatals, agencies, institutions, and government-owned companies. In a statement released on Monday by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, said boards, commissions, and councils listed in the third schedule, part one, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, are excluded from the president’s directive. Tinubu sacks IGP Usman Baba, service chiefs, appoints their replacements Judicial Council, Code of Conduct Bureau, Council of State, Federal Character Commission, Federal Civil…

The clergy are not immune from Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, which has now forced Church of England vicars to make a formal pay claim for the first time in their nearly 500-year history. The trade union Unite, which represents more than 2,000 clergy and lay officers in the Church of England, said on Monday that it has demanded a 9.5% increase in the stipend that clergy receive, to be paid in April 2024. “The Church of England has billions in the bank and can fully afford to pay its clergy the modest increase in their stipend they are seeking,” Unite general…

Nigeria’s immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Chairman of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), has called for credible and peaceful Sierra Leone general elections that will reflect the will of the people. He stated clearly that the COG will be guided by the principles of neutrality, impartiality, objectivity, and independence. At a press conference today, the Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), H.E. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, former Vice President of Nigeria, urged all citizens in Sierra Leone to do their part to ensure that a peaceful and credible process takes place during the elections on June 24.…

An Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, staffer, Mr. Emmanuel Igwe, has been reportedly shot dead by gunmen along the Ivo Local Government Area axis of the state. The victim, an assistant electoral officer in Afikpo North LGA, encountered the assailants while on his way back from Abia State. Gunmen attack Okorocha, kill security detail Reports gathered that the victim’s wife was equally kidnapped. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Ebonyi State Command, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, revealed that the incident occurred on Sunday around midday and said the gunmen shot the victim through his car’s windscreen. “We have begun a manhunt…

President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting behind closed doors with the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Chronicle NG reported that Bola Tinubu would host the duo today (Monday). The Chairman of the Dangote Group had met with the President at the State House on Friday last week and told journalists that he would come again on Monday with Bill Gates. Dangote had told journalists that he would brief them on the agenda of the meeting after the Monday visit.